From the daily newsletter: the constitutional rights of embryos. Plus: evidence of starvation, dehydration, and neglect in ...

By defying the Justices’ ruling on a man mistakenly sent to El Salvador, the Administration has shown that it is not owed the ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo has some of the largest deposits on Earth. Its President wants to sell them—and win a war.

More precise names for the “Personal Life” section on Wikipedia. Tough-guy things I can do because I don’t wear a face mask. It’s becoming pretty clear that something is going on with the crossword ...

Last year, for my birthday, my wife gave me a copy of “ I Remember ,” an unusual memoir by the artist Joe Brainard. It’s a tidy little book, less than two hundred pages long, made entirely from short, ...

As I.R.S. employees toil through tax season, their agency is being dismantled by the government it powers.

Jason Robert Brown débuted “The Last Five Years,” his two-character musical autopsy of a marriage, in 2001, when Nick Jonas was a child actor. Now Jonas returns to the stage, a conquering pop ...

Music is no longer a matter for the few,” Kurt Weill declared in 1928, the year he wrote “The Threepenny Opera.” In Weill’s ...

The famous Venice Beach restaurant finally has an outpost in New York, but something is inevitably lost in the migration.

Why are incarcerated people dying from lack of food or water, even as private companies are paid millions for their care?

The view from northern Europe, which, until very recently, had long seen the United States as a land of hope.

For the cover of the April 21, 2025, issue, the artist Frank Viva attempts to portray the feelings that grip anyone following ...