The insurgents, some adopting a pirate motif, believe that the denomination has drifted too far to the left on issues of race, gender and the strict authority of the Bible.

‘Take the Ship’: Conservatives Aim to Commandeer Southern Baptists

Doctoring baseballs with ultra-tacky substances has pitchers dominating and some questioning the game’s integrity. Can cleaning up the balls liven up the sport?

Baseball’s Sticky Situation

Concerns about crime are dominating the Democratic primary, and the party’s left wing has just started to coalesce.

Has New York Hit a Progressive Plateau? The Mayor’s Race Is a Key Test.

The I.R.S. almost never audits private equity firms, even as whistle-blowers have filed claims alleging illegal tax avoidance.

Private Inequity: How a Powerful Industry Conquered the Tax System

For decades, certain corners of the city were so smoothed by money they seemed off-limits to those just starting out as adults. But for one brief shining moment, it all belongs to the young.

This Is the Summer the Youth Own New York

Inside Silicon Valley’s 10-year quest to make soaring above a crowded city street as easy as calling an Uber.

What Is a Flying Car?

The president urged the leaders of wealthy democracies to offer hundreds of billions in loans to developing nations in a direct challenge to Beijing’s Belt-and-Road Initiative.

Biden Tries to Rally G7 Nations to Counter China’s Influence

City rules require homeowners to keep up their spaces. But sometimes your neighbor may need a little help.

Can I Make My Neighbor Mow His Lawn?

Quotation of the Day for Saturday, June 12, 2021.

Quotation of the Day: Extreme, Widespread Drought in the West, and the Hottest Months Are Still to Come

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are hardly the only new parents gravitating toward quirk, family tradition and “L” names.

Lilith, Lilibet … Lucifer? How Baby Names Went to ‘L’

These complex takeover vehicles serve an important purpose that’s worth protecting.

In Defense of SPACs

A glutton for attention is yanked away from the buffet. 

Donald Trump Is Starving

The pandemic has caused huge job losses among women. A program called Selfmade aims to help by teaching entrepreneurial skills.

Breaking Her Way Out of the ‘Shecession’

His efforts to squelch dissent and to accentuate the positive may not be able to counter widespread anger over his government’s stumbling response, undermining a key part of his strategy for wielding power.

In a Crisis, India’s Modi Could Always Change the Narrative. Then Came Covid.

Reacting to an essay by Mr. Hanks, readers discuss the Tulsa race massacre and other parts of our history, both shameful and inspiring, that are often not taught.

Tom Hanks and the History We Need to Learn

Once again, a period of turmoil has generated a new wave of professional bakers.

Pandemic Bakers Are Going Pro

Since the February coup, many physicians have refused to work at state-run hospitals. “I will never blame the doctors,” said a patient whose treatment stopped.

In Myanmar, Health Care’s Collapse Takes Its Own Toll

Regional rivalries lie at the heart of opposition to the nuclear pact. Could a revived agreement chart a better path?

One Way Forward on Iran: A Nuclear-Weapons-Free Persian Gulf

After 14 major league seasons, he wrote a book about Black pitchers and sang in nightclubs. “I made way more money in music than I did in baseball,” he said.

Mudcat Grant, American League’s First Black 20-Game Winner, Dies at 85

Pay up, Monopoly Men; freeloading isn't cool. 

Fat Cats on a Hot Tin Roof

 In mending rather than ending the rule, he might get us a little closer to a workable middle ground.

How Joe Manchin Can Fix the Filibuster

If we say Xi Jinping is committing genocide, can we do nothing?

One Woman’s Journey Through Chinese Atrocities

His movies about a psychiatrist’s disintegration and a werewolf in the White House originally bombed, but they both drew favorable attention many years later.

Milton Moses Ginsberg, 85, Unconventional Filmmaker, Dies

A tennis writer has watched Roland Garros evolve and grow for 30 years, for better or worse.

At the French Open Grounds, a Guided Tour of Change

The German chancellor, known for her commitment to compromise, is eager to revive deal-making on multilateral policy, joining the world’s top democratic leaders one last time. Can she be replaced?

June 12, 2021

Headlines from June 12, 2021

‘Take the Ship’: Conservatives Aim to Commandeer Southern Baptists

Baseball’s Sticky Situation

Has New York Hit a Progressive Plateau? The Mayor’s Race Is a Key Test.

Private Inequity: How a Powerful Industry Conquered the Tax System

This Is the Summer the Youth Own New York

Billboard 200

Evermore

Sour

The Off-Season

Dangerous: The Double Album

A Gangsta's Pain

Historical Context for June 12, 2021