Just before midnight on Friday, August 22nd, insects circled the bright lights outside the Texas state capitol and sprinklers watered the lawn. Inside, lawmakers milled around the Senate chamber as a ...

My daughter, Alice, is almost two, and quite funny. Although she can say short sentences—“I need cake!”—her humor isn’t particularly verbal. Instead, she giggles while stumbling around in grownup ...

A vaccine expert warns that the Secretary of Health and Human Services is deliberately sowing confusion in order to drive ...

The former President’s support for Israel abetted a humanitarian catastrophe. But Jacob Lew, who served as U.S. Ambassador to ...

Zohran Mamdani has promised to make the bus fare-free, and so has Andrew Cuomo, sort of. Is New York City ready?

Kate Riley’s début novel, “Ruth,” is about the workings of an insular religious community—and the irresistible pleasure of ...

Darren Aronofsky brings philosophical heft to his violent and frantic neo-noir, starring Austin Butler as a bartender trapped ...

On its self-titled album, the Michigan band uses orchestral arrangements to get the most out of every song.

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On the occasion of our third centenary issue—this one culture-themed—we asked our writers to share one of their most ...

As Tove Jansson’s lovable creatures turn eighty, new generations are discovering a world where “trolling” means weathering ...

On any given day, brilliant stuff would spontaneously fly out of someone’s mouth. A lot of that stuff had to go, to keep the ...