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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 ...

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

More crucially, though, we crave stories in which people connect intimately and are changed in the process—the kind of works that normalize and defend caring about others as much as or even more than ...

Bad news to the many, many Duke-basketball haters out there: It appears that you’re going to have to put up with the Blue Devils in all of their punchable smugness, with their fade haircuts and the ...

If you’ve been following the Iran war, you will have heard about the surpassing geopolitical significance of the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway responsible for carrying a fifth of the world’s ...

Etched into the facade of the Internal Revenue Service’s headquarters, just above a trio of limestone arches, is a quote from Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.: “Taxes are what we pay ...

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

The most pressing question about the SAVE America Act is not whether it’s going to pass, but why President Trump and his allies are so determined to see the Senate put up a bill that’s doomed to fail.

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

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