There is a Hebrew word for “squeezed,” sachut, which also means “being played.” In Jerusalem, after more than a week of the ...

No, not next Saturday at Knockdown Center—it’s “The Wild Party,” Michael John LaChiusa and George C. Wolfe’s musicalization ...

From the daily newsletter: the Administration can’t get its story straight on the Iran war, while an oil crisis threatens to upend the global economy.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton believed that she was a person of “superior intelligence and courage.” This fuelled her radical politics—and her eventual descent into bigotry.

Donald Trump plunged the U.S. into a potentially disastrous war with Iran with no clear rationale or exit plan. He’s now flailing for ways to mitigate its economic consequences, John Cassidy writes.

Scientists want to redesign psychedelics so that they don’t induce a trip—but they still improve mental health.

The social psychologist Jonathan Haidt discusses social media’s “subversion of the ability to pay attention on a species-wide level,” how policymakers are intervening, and what more we should be doing ...