Pamela Paul

Every time California takes a big step on education, you have to brace yourself: Is this going to lead the country in the right direction, as it

If the state’s goal is fairness, it’s taking the right kind of lead by banning legacy admissions.

Conversations and insights about the moment.

There are lists of Donald Trump's lies and lists of his alleged crimes. But the catalog of all the good things that have happened to the former president is equally unnerving. Every dog has its day, but Trump -- no fan of dogs, BTW -- has had far more good luck than the average mutt.

Pamela Paul and Carlos Lozada dig into the former first lady’s “book-adjacent object.”

Watching “Conclave” and “Rumours,” I realized I couldn’t escape the real world after all.

Faced with the chaotic unknown or the abjectly terrifying, some turn to wine and others to snack food. There are even people who channel their stress in healthy, productive ways, speed walking or enjoying sound bath meditation. But I go to the movies.

“Conclave,” an Oscar-bound movie set in the Vatican, promised to whisk me off far and away. Not exactly.