In a Castro-length speech to Congress, the President claimed victory, while proving that even the most unhinged address can ...

Susan B. Glasser on the President’s speech to Congress. Plus: what Putin wants now; Elon Musk’s problem with Wikipedia; and ...

Good Girl,” by the German-born writer Aria Aber, asks what it means to want to belong to a society that wishes you harm.

Zain Shirazi, inspired by his family’s experience of post-9/11 racism, has been fighting workplace harassment for the federal ...

The award-winning pianist on the relationship between music and politics—and on five books that hold them in tension.

Trump has suspended all military aid to Ukraine in an apparent attempt to bring the country to the negotiating table. But ...

Artificially generated videos of Gaza as a beach resort and of migrant detention as A.S.M.R. are creating a digital mirror world of the future as Trump imagines it.

The last film by Sophie Fillières, who died before completing it, is a bold reckoning with an artist’s self-awareness and ...

Lately, Musk’s beef has merged with a general conviction on the right that the site is biased against conservatives.

DOGE operatives claim that mass layoffs are necessary to prevent the U.S. government from going bankrupt. Let’s do the math.

Harvard in crisis. Plus: the trade wars begin; the diary of a fired federal worker; and Anthony Lane remembers Gene Hackman.

Mary Ellen Matthews has been shooting the show’s hosts and musical guests in variously compromising positions for a quarter ...