Hours after Donald J. Trump was sworn in for a second term, he issued an executive order laying the groundwork for mass deportations of immigrants and denying them legal assistance. Public interest groups focused on immigrant rights teamed up to fight the order and called in Gibson Dunn, a major …
OpenAI backtracks OpenAI’s decision to scale back its ambitious corporate reorganization has drawn lots of scrutiny, including what the plan means for artificial intelligence safety, potential profits for investors and an ongoing fight with Elon Musk. What’s emerging is that in some ways, how OpenAI operates isn’t changing much. But …
John Thornton, a financier who leveraged his wealth and influence to embark on the seemingly quixotic mission of reviving local journalism in a time of crisis, by founding The Texas Tribune, a seminal regional nonprofit news organization, and the American Journalism Project, which supports local digital newsrooms around the country, …
The Center for Art and Advocacy, a nonprofit that assists artists who have served time in prison, will inaugurate its first physical space on Thursday. The hub, in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, opens to the public with an exhibition, “Collective Gestures: Building Community Through Practice,” featuring works by the …
Nicki Wilson was shocked when her local newspaper reported in March 2023 that the Triplex Theater, an independent four-screen movie house in Great Barrington, Mass., was shutting down after almost three decades in business. The Triplex, the only theater in town, was a much-loved fixture, attracting moviegoers from all around …
Rio Sakairi patted around inside her purse and retrieved a key that unlocks the elevator at 1158 Broadway. Exiting on the fifth floor, she glanced toward the black door leading to the performance space in Manhattan’s Flatiron neighborhood, where the Jazz Gallery has made its home since 2012. The saxophonist …
We have spent much of the past 24 hours on the telephone trying to get to the bottom of Elon Musk’s hostile bid for Sam Altman’s OpenAI. It was a development in their corporate battle (or soap opera) that few could have seen coming. Altman, who is in Paris at …
A unionization wave sweeping across Off Broadway is poised to reshape the economics of theater-making in New York — for workers as well as producers. Striking stage crews have idled the nonprofit Atlantic Theater Company — the birthplace of the musicals “Spring Awakening,” “The Band’s Visit” and “Kimberly Akimbo,” which …
Funds from the world’s richest nation once flowed from the largest global aid agency to an intricate network of small, medium and large organizations that delivered aid: H.I.V. medications for more than 20 million people; nutrition supplements for starving children; support for refugees, orphaned children and women battered by violence. …