New Yourk

As a child in postings around the world, the author witnessed the agency’s complex relationship with American empire—and with autocrats ever...

A global network of maritime archeologists is excavating slave shipwrecks—and reconnecting Black communities to the deep.

Roman Chervinsky’s spycraft has been a decisive factor in Ukraine’s national defense. Why is he under house arrest in Kyiv?

Lara Trump, the President’s daughter-in-law, now has a prime-time show on Fox. Is this the latest spin of the revolving door between media a...

The confusion surrounding the detention of migrants at the base and their sudden deportation shouldn’t be mistaken for a broader lack of pla...

As the state becomes more urban, so does its barbecue. So why does a small-town family feud feel so important?

Donald Trump’s disdain for NATO will reshape the domestic politics—and military posture—of some of America’s closest allies.

Pennies, plane crashes, and constitutional crises as Washington enters its Dark MAGA era.

Donald Trump tries to overturn the most basic meme of American history.

Speeches delivered by J. D. Vance and Pete Hegseth were not just verbal lashings of America’s allies but a wholesale rejection of eighty yea...

How the country’s post-apartheid politics may inform the world view of Elon Musk and Donald Trump.

In the wake of Donald Trump’s executive order banning transition-related care for minors, hospitals in blue states began cancelling appointm...

At Wheaton College, a controversy around one of its graduates, Russell Vought, a Trump Administration official, shows how deeply the past de...

At Wheaton College, a controversy around one of its graduates, Russell Vought, a Trump Administration official, shows how deeply the past de...

A conservative prosecutor in New York makes the first bold move against Donald Trump’s rampaging Presidency.

His violations follow an old playbook—trigger lawsuits, giving the Supreme Court a chance to declare statutes unconstitutional.

Peter Beinart on the story of Israel and the moral blindspot of the Jewish diaspora.

The future of the Department of Education may hinge on the world views of two billionaires who abhor what they perceive as weakness and wast...

The nomination of Lori Chavez-DeRemer reflects MAGA’s working-class contradictions.

Do judges have the power to enforce their rulings if the executive branch refuses to comply?

The dispute involves Catholic precepts on immigration and charity—which the Church has administered for decades through U.S.A.I.D.

More than thirty actions and executive orders either boost fossil-fuel production or cripple programs that might reduce fossil-fuel use.

Unions took to the streets—and the courts—to try to keep Elon Musk’s initiative out of the Labor Department.

Can a company town that’s been called “the most miserable city in America” remake itself?

Our devastation of nature is so extreme that reversing even a small part of it requires painstaking, quixotic efforts.