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I grew up watching episodic shows on network TV, nearly all of them formulaic but some indelibly great. Then, like everyone else, I moved into the days of what my colleague David Bianculli dubbed Platinum TV, where series like The Sopranos and The Wire and Fleabag aspired to something higher. What both these eras had in common was that their shows were carefully crafted — they had an internal logic, and a tone, that held them together.

writer Rachel Aviv spent years reporting stories about mothers and daughters searching for each other. When she became a mom, she saw everything she wrote differently.

Updated July 6, 2026 at 9:58 AM PDT ISTANBUL — Huge crowds of people joined the funeral procession of Iran's late supreme leader as it made its way through the capital, Tehran, on Monday. Iranian state media showed the caskets of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and four family members — killed the first day of Israeli-U.S. strikes on Iran on Feb. 28 — draped with the Iranian flag and placed on a large semitrailer adorned with white paneling.

Once upon a time, it seemed like a natural fit for composer Philip Glass to have his latest symphony premiered at the Kennedy Center, during the country's 250th anniversary year. The work honors Abraham Lincoln; Glass is a revered American composer who was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 2015. But things didn't go quite that way. Instead, the piece had its world debut Sunday with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Federal agents with Homeland Security Investigations tried to track down Rochester resident David Streever last month and give him a warning notice alleging that he had potentially violated the law when he wrote a harsh email months earlier to the former head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

A former Marine says in a new book that military veterans running for office can bring Washington the courage to work across party lines.

When Ray Broshears, a gay preacher in San Francisco, started a street vigilante group to protect the LGBTQ+ people in the Tenderloin neighborhood, he told a reporter he wanted to frighten "all those young punks who have been beating up my f*****s." This was back in 1973, but even then, "Reverend Ray" was a problematic, controversial figure, and not just for his militant tactics.

Once upon a time, it seemed like a natural fit for composer Philip Glass to have his latest symphony premiered at the Kennedy Center, during the country's 250th anniversary year. The work honors Abraham Lincoln; Glass is a revered American composer who was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 2015. But things didn't go quite that way. Instead, the piece had its world debut Sunday with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

GENEVA — An all-time controversy in the World Cup's 96-year history was raging Monday ahead of the co-host United States and forward Folarin Balogun facing Belgium with a quarterfinals place at stake. The Belgian soccer federation said it is challenging FIFA's ruling to let Balogun play despite getting a red card in his previous game — a shocking move made Sunday after pressure on the world soccer body's leader Gianni Infantino from his close ally, U.S. President Donald Trump.

Stay up to date with our Politics newsletter, sent weekly. The Trump administration's sweeping effort to slow down the rate of legal migration has affected a group traditionally immune from such efforts: spouses of U.S. citizens.