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Once, mayors of New York City were toweringnational figures. Fiorello LaGuardia inspired a musical. John Lindsay,who exuded patrician char...

Plenty of Hollywood auteurs can claim a Freudian dimensionto their work. But how many ever met the great man himself? When Oscar-winningdi...

A few years ago, attending a tech conference that catered to an industry-friendly audience, I listened as a venture capitalist praised the u...

There’s one big lesson from Donald Trump’s career in business: Think twice before making a deal with him. The former president is notorious...

Parable of the Talents, Octavia Butler’s penultimate novel, follows a charismatic Black woman named Lauren Olamina as she struggles to defen...

Last week, Washington Governor Jay Inslee signed into law a series of historic climate-focused bills. The new measures included limitations...

Jeff Bezos now owns James Bond. And The Handmaid’s Tale. And Rocky (and Creed). And Legally Blonde, Robocop, The Pink Panther, Silence of th...

There’s an arresting scene inJ.D. Vance’s moving 2016 memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, in which Vance, a second-year student at Yale Law School, at...

“Man Dies After Medical Incident During Police Interaction” was the title of the initial statement the Minneapolis Police Department release...

When Mary Moriarty thinks about police reform, she always comes back to the lieutenant she met at a training session a few years ago. As Hen...

On Tuesday, the National Fraternal Order of Police posted a graphic on Twitter. It bore the title “SKYROCKETING MURDER RATES” on a red banne...

Political protest in the twenty-first century has so far been distinguished by its sheer numerical scale—and its ineffectuality. In 2003, cr...

Entry #203 in the Dylan to English Dictionary, billed by author A.J. Weberman as “the most useful and authoritative translation of Bob Dylan...

After being fired from CNN for racist comments about Native Americans, former Republican presidential candidate turned cable news greenroom...

More than four years ago, I called a constitutional law professor to ask him to explain a wave of anti-abortion legislation that blatantly v...

While politicos like to pretend otherwise, most presidential addresses to Congress contain very little that matters—they capture the public’...

Nikole Hannah-Jones is a renowned journalist, recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship, and a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for journalism. Bare...

In April 1994, the heads ofthe biggest tobacco companies testified before Congress that cigarettes weren’t addictive. A month later, across...

Last Friday was a busy, confusing day on the climate front in America. First, in the morning, the Group of Seven—consisting of the United St...

For as long as there have been police, there have been bestselling police biographies and autobiographies. In nineteenth-century Britain and...

In Elysburg, Pennsylvania, there is a Vatican-trained exorcist and professed expert on spiritual warfare, who lectures and tweets about the...

The man dubbed “the last dictator in Europe” lived upto his billing over the weekend. In a provocative dare to the entire continent,Belaru...

Tech industry “regulation is overdue,” writes Nick Clegg, the former British deputy prime minister turned Facebook vice president of global...