Bill Maher has been chosen to receive the award before the Kennedy Center shuts down for a two-year renovation.

In 2002, most ambitious Democrats supported a Middle Eastern war. In 2026, most oppose it.

A recent killing of a neo-Nazi activist could bring France’s far-right party closer to power than it’s ever been.

Eighteenth-­century mental institutions employed a tactic called the bain de surprise, suddenly dunking their patients in ...

Naturally, the Senate is debating none of those things. Instead, Republicans in Congress’s upper chamber are spending this ...

Phil Berger has been the most powerful person in North Carolina for 15 years. That wasn’t enough to save him from voters’ anger at incumbents and legalized gambling.

Micro-cheating includes all sorts of internet behavior that, to many people, might just seem innocent.

Shteyngart’s article is the latest in The Atlantic’s series “The Writer’s Way,” in which journalists and novelists follow the trails of beloved authors in the places that formed their work. Though ...

A Mexican athlete said he was kidnapped and forced to compete for his life in a tournament of gangs. But was he actually ...

In April 2024, Eric Schmidt, the former Google CEO and a current AI evangelist, gave a closed-door lecture to a group of Stanford students. If these young people hoped to be Silicon Valley ...

But in the American West, it feels like we skipped right to summer. A record-smashing heat dome has settled over a huge swath of the United States, from California to Montana and down to Texas. At my ...

According to The Wall Street Journal, when General Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, warned the president that a U.S. attack would prompt Iran to close the Strait of Hormuz, Trump ...