When David Lynch died last week, it was almost hard to know whom exactly to mourn. He was a Renaissance man: musician, ...

This article appears in the March 2025 print edition with the headline “Capitulation Is Contagious.” ...

Donald Trump says his big new AI initiative is a victory for America. Guess who the real winner is.

On Monday, Stewart Rhodes, the eye-patched founder of the far-right militia known as the Oath Keepers, was in prison, which is where he has been since he was convicted of seditious conspiracy for his ...

A federal judge temporarily blocked Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship, calling it “blatantly unconstitutional.” Trump told the countries attending the World Economic Forum ...

The president is punishing a group of former officials for expressing an opinion he didn’t like.

Sam Altman has once again put himself in a position of power—this time by sidling up to President Trump.

Bolton did, however, publish before getting permission to do so, and anyone who has had a security clearance knows that dodging the review is a violation not just of the letter of one’s clearance ...

In the years since it began a committed effort to diversify and expand its membership, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has weathered strikes, the pandemic shutdown of theaters, and ...

A conversation with Russell Berman about the last president to lose, then win, a reelection bid ...

Now that Trump is president again, the right’s moment of unity is over.

What Boethius described was no symptom of carceral derangement; the lady was his metaphor for the power of philosophy to breathe life back into a deadened soul. With luck, you are not reading this ...