Sunday Morning

Nestled in the foothills of the Pocono Mountains lies a charming borough once nicknamed “the Switzerland of America.” But locals call it something else now: Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania. You couldn’t miss the name if you tried. There’s a Jim Thorpe Neighborhood Bank, a Jim Thorpe Market, a Jim Thorpe Trolley, …

The shooting last month at Michigan State University, killing three people and injuring five, was the wrong kind of right moment to catapult gun control to the top of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s agenda. She told a rally on March 15, “We are done only offering ‘thoughts and prayers.’ It is …

Marion Benedek, K.C. Rice, Helen Chardack and Susan Shapiro have been taking ceramics classes together at the 92nd Street Y for almost a lifetime. This tight-knit group of New York City potters puts a unique spin on something we all desperately want: happiness. They call their ceramics get-togethers their happy …

At the Smithsonian Institution, historian Jon Grinspan is a curator in charge of that part of the “Nation’s Attic” that holds the objects of American democracy and politics. “I call this the fossil record,” he said, “that just as the Smithsonian is known for its dinosaurs, these are the fossils …

When she was 20 or 30 years old, how did Gwyneth Paltrow see what she’d be doing at age 50? “I don’t think I thought about it,” she replied. “I thought, you know, 50 is, like, you’re dead at that point!” Though clearly far from dead, Paltrow, who will indeed …

Washington insider David Gergen, who has worked for four presidents on both sides of the aisle, says it’s time for the current generation of political leaders to step aside. Gergen talks about the current state of national politics and his new book, “Hearts Touched With Fire: How Great Leaders Are …

In Paris this weekend, traffic stopped and crowds gathered to see the Arc de Triomphe transformed: the huge monument wrapped in shimmering, fabric, tied in place with red rope – the colors subtly emulating the French flag. It’s the creation of the artist known simply as Christo. But when Christo …

Check out these arts openings and events around the U.S. this week: Shreveport, La.: The State Fair of Louisiana (Through November 10) “A Gumbo of Fun” at the 113th annual fair, with free nightly concerts, a huge midway filled with rides and games, outrageous food vendors, and the annual rodeo …

From time to time we like to take a look at the works of artists who are far too often over-looked. To Faith Salie now, and an artist with the perfect artwork for our favorite morning of the week: The collection in New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art contains …

By “Sunday Morning” film critic David Edelstein Fair warning: I’m going into this year’s Oscars bursting with negativity, because my favorite film, “The Florida Project,” about this imp of a girl and her druggy, trick-turning, but otherwise loving single mom in a fleabag motel, was criminally ignored, except for Willem …