If Meriwether Lewis and William Clark hadn’t gone up the Missouri River in 1804 and then down the lower Columbia River in 1805, there might today be less United States and more Canada. Lately, I have ...

The President’s stock dealing, $1.8-billion “anti-weaponization” slush fund, and grant of immunity from the I.R.S. demonstrate the need for major ethics reforms.

For the cover of the June 1, 2026, issue, the artist Mark Ulriksen wanted to celebrate the Knicks, one of the city’s beloved ...

Donald Trump jetted to the rolling hills of Asheboro, North Carolina, in late August, for his first outdoor rally since a gunman tried to kill him. The former President’s Boeing 757, known as Trump ...

Over the years, Caputo has been, variously, an ally of the Trump adviser Roger Stone (he was once Stone’s driver); a media ...

Flesh-eating” bacteria is spreading. Infectious fungi are emerging. Microbiomes may never be the same. Are we ready?

The winner of the first was a twenty-five-year-old Ukrainian pilot named Timur Fatkullin. At the controls of his ...

How did Black Americans regard independence? Frederick Douglass’s powerful 1852 speech “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” provides one answer: To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted ...

Sometimes it is hard for Elina Svitolina to find the motivation to get on a tennis court. She wakes up and checks the news ...

Plans for a forgotten art work by the late duo were found in an airshaft. Now, with the help of Christo’s nephew, “Air ...

Wasn’t it the case that all friendships involved some amount of attraction? It was the engine of curiosity, the mystery that ...

At one point, Catherine and I landed on the topic of smugness as an obstacle to creativity. When Catherine asked me about this again a few weeks later, I specified that being smug in one’s coupledom ...