In some places, the birth rate is so low that each generation is set to be half the size of the previous one. A number of ...

Whether on a plane or in a box,” she muses, “I was going to leave this place.” James, who grew up in Kingston and now splits his time between New York City and Minneapolis, has said the same about ...

Second, she tried to laugh off stances that progressives in her wing of the Democratic Party had taken in the preceding years: “‘Woke 1 was crazy,’” she said, echoing a comment that one of her allies ...

A s you cross the Androscoggin River into Lewiston, you pass on your left the waterfalls that once set the mills to humming.

Some institutions jumped onto the MAGA bandwagon after the 2024 election, but it hasn’t taken long for those decisions to ...

To a firefighter who is inside one, a fire creates as much darkness as heat. Flames start bright but throw off smoke that can swathe everything in pitch black. Lieutenant Kevin Dowdell did not fight ...

San Francisco’s roughly 500 ALPRs are provided by Flock Safety, a police-technology firm that claims its ALPRs are deployed ...

Tangled themes of violence and masculinity run like buried cables through Chang-rae Lee’s work. One of contemporary American literature’s major chroniclers of manhood, he’s been writing for three ...

Normal days in Spain can suddenly turn otherworldly. On a trip to Málaga in April, for instance, during Semana Santa, my friends and I happened upon a midnight procession of about 50 men in hoods who ...

The Department of Homeland Security has stopped releasing timely, reliable statistics on immigration enforcement.

Living outside is a more dreadful prospect during a heat wave.

Summer is the worst season of all, and also the most beautiful.