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Thousands of Afghan refugees are touching down in the United States, ready to restart lives shattered by U.S. failure. The government has al...

Amid the many circuitries of outrage, distraction, and algorithmic surveillance that now go by the name of online life, the temptation to lo...

Every summer in Brooklyn, for at least a few weeks, it getsharder to breathe. Air quality alerts burn up our phones, warning us to stay ins...

In the last few days before the recall election that will decide whether Governor Gavin Newsom, who was democratically elected less than fou...

There is a poignant pleasure to be found in loving something past its prime. Watching The Chair, a Netflix limited series in which Sandra Oh...

Salman Rushdie, the Booker Prize winning novelist, insists that he is not, like so many media members before him, going to Substack—at least...

These days, one of the scariest phrases in the English language has become, “A deeply divided Supreme Court ruled.…” The late-night Wednesda...

The Supreme Court declined to block a Texas law prohibiting most abortions, in a late-night opinion on Tuesday, igniting fears among abortio...

The Supreme Court did not overturn Roe v. Wade outright in its ruling in Whole Woman’s Health v. Jackson on Wednesday night. But the outcome...

DidElizabeth Holmes’s signature black turtleneck hide bruises? Thefounder and chief executive of Theranos is preparing to stand trial for...

Extreme abortion restrictions took effect in Texas on September 1, after the Supreme Court declined to block S.B. 8, the state law that bans...

The trouble can be traced all the way back to the 1844 presidential election, in which James K. Polk narrowly defeated Henry Clay for the pr...

Against a matte black backdrop, as if suspended in a starless void, a chestnut nimbus of hair says, “Glad you could join me today. I hope yo...

I can’t remember the last time I saw a monarch butterfly. I remember chasing them as a child—how I’d catch a glimpse of fluttering stained-g...

Toward the end of Sally Rooney’s 2018 novel, Normal People, the character Connell attends a reading by a visiting author. Shortly after sett...

Appearing at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library on Wednesday, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy argued that Joe Biden’s presidency wa...

The war in Afghanistan formally ended on Tuesday, capping two decades of a multitrillion-dollar conflict overseen by four presidents and spu...

D.H. Lawrence understood early on that his calling was to divide readers and friends. He hated to be silenced but loved to be hated. “It’s e...

The Supreme Court is already set to hear a major case on abortion rights, Jackson Women’s Health Organization v. Dobbs, later this year. It’...

Kathy Hochul has spent her first week as New York’s governor reminding everyone as often as possible that she is not her predecessor. She ha...

In a move cheered by progressives andantitrust reformers, President Biden has nominated Jonathan Kanter to serve as assistant attorney gene...

It’s rare for a rank-and-file congressmember’s comments to break through the news cycle for multiple days, but that’s just what’s happening...

A year and a half after Soviet troops marched into Afghanistan, the US Central Intelligence Agency is coordinating a complex, far-flung prog...

When Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas opened its health center in Lubbock in 2020, it was the culmination of a years-long effort to reest...

Exactly 16 years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, Hurricane Ida struck Louisiana on Sunday, flooding towns and knocking out p...