Josh Wardle, the creator of Wordle, has a new game that aims to introduce players to the joys and agonies of the cryptic crossword.

The race to fill Marjorie Taylor Greene’s House seat pits a Trump-endorsed Republican attorney against a far-right insurgent backed by Kyle Rittenhouse.

Even the hint that she might not be allowed to vote motivated her to dig through her files until she found her birth certificate. It was the original, issued in 1928. The Lede Reporting and commentary ...

The ferocity of U.S. and Israeli attacks has raised questions about whether the two countries are even attempting to minimize civilian casualties.

The musician Mitski, who just released her eighth studio album, “Nothing’s About to Happen to Me,” discusses an album, a TV ...

It totally screams “Maya,” because she’s within driving distance, last I heard, so I probably won’t have to pay for shipping.

Tehran’s appointment of Mojtaba Khamenei to lead Iran “sends a strong message to Trump that his bombings and threats are not delivering the regime change he seemingly wants,” an expert told Robin ...

From the daily newsletter: people are turning to digital companions as antidotes to loneliness—confiding in them, finding sexual gratification, and even “marrying” them.

The psychotherapist, who appears in the documentary TV series “Couples Therapy,” talks about books that illuminate the relationship between sweeping social phenomena and our most intimate experiences.

Long overlooked, the painter was an American genius, turning color into its own form of storytelling. In a new show at the Whitney, the painter’s strengths emerge not from empathy but from a strange, ...

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