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 ...

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

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The show captures disastrous custard-making, quintessentially British faux-modesty, and the blistering hubris of ...

Ahead of next year’s two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the White House has issued a ...

At the newly renovated Delacorte, Saheem Ali directs a celebrity-packed production that is comically inventive but rarely ...

We’re used to algorithms guiding our choices. When machines can effortlessly generate the content we consume, though, what’s ...

The mayoral candidate and social-media whiz hit the bleachers at the U.S. Open for a new kind of social-media gambit: the fan ...

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