My hair is parted to the side—it looks so nerdy parted in the middle! I know I’m still dating myself, but what do I care? At ...

The memes responding to Trump’s seesawing tariff policy hint at a collective psychological state.

A legal scholar argues that the judiciary’s “passive-aggressive approach” to the Trump Administration is doomed to fail.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo has some of the largest deposits on Earth. Its President wants to sell them—and win a ...

As I.R.S. employees toil through tax season, their agency is being dismantled by the government it powers.

More precise names for the “Personal Life” section on Wikipedia. Tough-guy things I can do because I don’t wear a face mask.

Last year, for my birthday, my wife gave me a copy of “ I Remember ,” an unusual memoir by the artist Joe Brainard. It’s a ...

People who love Phish do so with a quasi-religious devotion. People who dislike Phish do so with an equal fervor.

From the daily newsletter: the constitutional rights of embryos. Plus: evidence of starvation, dehydration, and neglect in ...

Aimee Semple McPherson took to the radio to spread the Gospel, but her mysterious disappearance cast a shadow on her ...

“You often need a martyr or someone very committed to act first,” Margaret Levi, a professor emerita of political science at ...

Music is no longer a matter for the few,” Kurt Weill declared in 1928, the year he wrote “The Threepenny Opera.” In Weill’s ...