Skywriting messages I wish I could take back. I turned thirty so you don’t have to . Obituaries my mother wrote for me while ...

I’m scared, but I have to keep moving. To stop is to die, or, worse, to be force-fed a clip of Ricky Gervais saying words.

In “Waiting for the Fear,” Oğuz Atay’s narrators are in a constant state of revolt—against their country, their language, ...

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From the daily newsletter: the rise of one of the most powerful lobbying forces in U.S. politics. Plus: Mosab Abu Toha on Gaza, a year after October 7th; Bidenomics in J. D. Vance’s back yard; and ...

From crypto to A.I., the tech sector is pouring millions into super PACS that intimidate politicians into supporting its ...

As Greenland melts, more freshwater is streaming into the oceans. Discharge from Arctic rivers, like the Lena, in Russia, is ...

Claire Devon, the protagonist of Missy Mazzoli’s seductively nightmarish opera “The Listeners,” is living contentedly as a ...

Even here I can’t stop arguing with myself I have mouths to feed in my sleep—they jostle and hover for nights at a time They ...

The daily stream of racism and mendacity has had a numbing effect. But the question of what Trump might actually do is a ...

Many of Donald Trump’s economic promises have come to pass, including in the home town of his running mate—they’ve just been ...

As the civil-rights era receded, his personal heroism loomed larger. But movement politics didn’t easily translate into party ...