Those of us who watch the Olympics as bystanders tend to smugly judge athletes for succumbing to pressure without understanding what we even mean by the term. The first thing to know about pressure is ...

Killing thousands of protesters last month was apparently not enough for the Islamic Republic, which followed up by arresting ...

If you have ever felt that the American political landscape resembles some kind of nightmarish circus, you may find catharsis in the new play Kramer/Fauci, in which the writer and AIDS activist Larry ...

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Or, at least it was his favorite power—before the Supreme Court ruled today that many of the tariffs he had imposed in the past year were illegal. The ruling is a political embarrassment to the ...

American writing instruction has always involved some level of torture. What happens when technology makes it easy?

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In the 1630s, King Charles I tried to tax English people without the consent of their legislature. He lost his head. In the ...

Jeffrey Goldberg and Adrienne LaFrance discuss reporting on national security and the political fallout after the Signal ...

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) pushes the myth that the Olympics are meant to be a safe, apolitical space. Tell ...

After creating an economic mess with ill-advised tariffs, Hitler looked north in pursuit of resources and national security.