Ms. Rachel defended her political commentary by arguing Mister Rogers tackled civil rights, nuclear disarmament and public broadcasting funding on his own show, while a psychotherapist countered that Rogers modeled values rather than stating explicit political positions.

The second annual CBGB Festival hits Brooklyn’s Under The K Bridge Park on Saturday, Sept. 26, with Patti Smith, Morrissey, the Sex Pistols and 14 other acts across two stages.

Nikole Hannah-Jones writes in a new New York Times Magazine essay that her decision to enroll her daughter in two struggling Brooklyn schools, made in the name of school equality, largely failed — a choice critics say shows the cost of putting ideology ahead of a child’s needs.

Weeks before his fatal overdose at a Los Angeles rehab facility, Presley Gerber had publicly detailed the exact medications — Valium, buprenorphine and Xanax — he was taking for mental health and substance abuse issues.

Presley Gerber, who died Sunday in an undisclosed rehab facility, had spoken publicly about addiction and treatment in Mexico just weeks before his death, and his sister Kaia Gerber had praised his candor in an August Vogue interview.

An opinion essay argues that modern fantasy publishing and entertainment have abandoned the moral clarity of Tolkien and Lewis in favor of graphic content marketed to young readers, citing examples from ‘Game of Thrones,’ ‘A Court of Thorns and Roses’ and ‘Fourth Wing.’