The Life and, for Now, the Death of the Kennedy Center

With artificial intelligence on the agenda for talks between President Trump and Xi Jinping of China, our reporter looks at lessons from the nuclear arms race.

Parents are increasingly willing to embrace tracking and analytics for their children — part of a broader cultural obsession with health data and optimization.

The major television networks suspended their pooled coverage of President Trump, breaking a practice that dates back decades.

A new interpretation of the law would mean that only the intentional killing of animals, not collateral harm, would be illegal.

For the first time in centuries, the Bayeux Tapestry — a nearly 1,000-year-old piece of embroidery that depicts the invasion of England by William the Conqueror in 1066 — is on display in Britain. It was long said by art experts to be too fragile to move. But in a development that required geopolitical persuasion, this summer the tapestry made its way from Bayeux, France, to the British Museum in London. When the first block of tickets went on sale, the British Museum said, over 80,000 people at a time waited online to buy them. In this episode of the “Sunday Daily,” Alex Marshall, a culture reporter for The New York Times, talks with host Michael Barbaro about why this ancient piece of embroidery matters so much to the British public.