A majority of justices decided not to make the coming election needlessly more chaotic than it already is.
Lawmakers from both parties are worried. But the president isn’t listening.
The president is turning the charge of personalism into a promise.
In decision after decision, the conservative justices are ignoring the evidentiary record that lower courts have worked hard to establish.
Many voters understand that the president isn’t directly responsible for the price of oil. Except this time, he is.
Far-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction.
How did the GOP become a haven for slogans and ideas straight out of the Third Reich?
The actor’s history-making Emmys win was a recognition of female performers who refuse to placate.
The government doesn’t seem ready for a major disaster.
The country Trump once disdained as a burden has become a military powerhouse.
The president wants the Smithsonian to add a colossal George Washington statue—and remove another work of abstract art in D.C.
Jon Ronson’s “The Castle” argues that men are giving up on society because they have nothing better to do.
Silicon Valley has its own ascendant political ideology. It’s past time we call it what it is.
Inside the “Star Wars” creator’s temple to storytelling
The U.S. occupation of Iraq is a debacle not because the government did no planning but because a vast amount of expert planning was willfully ignored by the people in charge. The inside story of a hi...
Infant care is incredibly expensive to provide. But one solution could reduce the burden on both states and parents.
Two frog biologists were kidnapped in the woods. More bizarre situations may come.
Before the photographer left painting behind forever, he attempted to refocus it on nature.
The philosophy professor Meghan Sullivan doesn’t just want to teach her students about virtue; she wants to make them better human beings.
The standard-issue Northeast progressive wants to take the Democratic Party down a populist path.
AI personal assistants are now acting on people’s behalf in the real world—and all sorts of strange things are going wrong.
Forty-four years ago, a conservative legal convention offered disaffected students an identity—and hope.
It’s not just about denial or self-protection. It’s about living a bigger life.
In Georgia, where Donald Trump once tried to “find” more than 11,000 votes, election deniers are now in powerful election-board positions.
Can a generation of graduates frustrated by their economic prospects change American labor politics?
Cabinet members were rewarded points and praise for appearing in congressional districts and states with competitive midterm elections.
Trump’s envoy isn’t promoting peace. His interventions are helping Vladimir Putin.
Anthropic’s CEO says that AI companies must slow down for the good of humanity.
The technology is moving faster than elected officials can handle—and Anthropic’s CEO says the industry should slow down.
The conspiracy theory that persists even though no evidence supports it
The Venezuela operation is the purest distillation of his amoral foreign policy.
Many of the tech billionaires who built our world have taken the wrong lessons from their favorite science fiction.
The White House made a bunch of parody video games. We have more suggestions.
A prominent psychologist and meditation teacher set out to research the benefits of the practice. What she found alarmed her.
More and more people have spotted them this season, but no one knows exactly why—or what to do.
Heading west at 40 transformed his writing—and American literature.
Deconstructing a policy proposal that makes no sense on any level
Just like the neocons he criticizes, Trump embraces the wielding of American power to impose his own worldview on countries that do not share it.
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