Our obsession with deadly game shows—from “The Running Man” and “Squid Game” to MrBeast’s real-life reënactments—reflects a shift in the national mood to something increasingly zero-sum.
The F.B.I. director isn’t just enforcing the President’s agenda at the Bureau—he’s seeking retribution for its past investigations of Donald Trump.
It used to be that drawing heat from deep in the Earth was practical only in geyser-filled places such as Iceland. But new approaches may have...
The polymathic entertainer has had a lifelong bond with the wittiest—and the most tortured—of writers. And now he’s starring in “The Importance of Being Earnest.”
As af Klint’s fame has grown, so have the questions—about what she believed, whom she worked with, and who should be allowed to speak in her...
The President granted two hundred and thirty-eight pardons and commutations in his first term; less than a year into his second, he has issued nearly two...
The magazine’s first pop-music critic was never afraid to be overtaken by unexpected delight, even if it came at the expense of some preëxisting skepticism.
The President granted two hundred and thirty-eight pardons and commutations in his first term; less than a year into his second, he has issued nearly two...
Even in cases like Luigi Mangione’s, the intentions of assassins are dwarfed by the meanings we project onto them.
The President’s executive order took inspiration from an esoteric legal argument from 1985, by two Yale professors. They have some regrets.