If Celtics succumb to the Knicks, it will rival the Red Sox losing the ’86 Series to the Mets and Pats losing Super Bowl XLII to the Giants.

When the law firm Paul Weiss cut a deal with the Trump administration, a new kind of activist emerged.

From the underachieving O’s to the historically bad Rockies to struggling stars and underwhelming top trade targets, disappointment abounds.

How will Americans know when we have lost our democracy? Authoritarianism is harder to recognize than it used to be. Most 21st-century autocrats are elected. Rather than violently suppress opposition like Castro or Pinochet, today’s autocrats convert …

In 2014, the Chinese writer known as Murong Xuecun announced in an essay in The New York Times that he was returning to China to turn himself in to the police. Two weeks earlier, the authorities had arrested three of Mr. Murong’s friends in Beijing …

Every team is making moves. Some of those moves have been more helpful than others.