The present mess has roots in two entangled, defining White House projects: DOGE and the mind-bending expansion of ICE.

The author discusses her story “Enough for Now.”

The author reads her story from the April 6, 2026, issue of the magazine.

Martha noticed the Dutch backpacker, of course. He was sitting next to her for eight hours, in the hard sleeper from Xi’an to Guilin. She could tell he was Dutch from his accent in Mandarin—like blurry German. He was engaged in a battle of courtesy with some…

Kids, Wait Till You Hear This!, by Liza Minnelli, as told to Michael Feinstein (Grand Central). Early in this unvarnished memoir, Minnelli—the daughter of the director Vincente Minnelli and the tormented entertainer Judy Garland—muses, “Was life perfect with…

Ever wondered why “I’m with Stupid”? Let me explain.

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At the Men of War Crucible, you bear-crawl through rivers. At Warrior Week, you dig your own grave. At the Squire Program, your teen-ager can take part, too.

Disagreements about Gaza and Zionism have divided congregations.

After college, I joined an odd little utopia of movie nerds working out of an office on lower Broadway. Then the sustainability of the setup started to seem questionable.

A series of uncannily timed bets on the price of oil and stocks deserves a proper investigation. It’s far from clear that they’ll get one.

Israel moves fast, launching a bold military operation against a weaker Middle Eastern neighbor. It frames the campaign as a preëmptive effort to neutralize a regional threat. Israel’s Western allies join in, bombing the country in what looks like an attempt…

Maybe someday, from a certain angle, if the light hits just right, Donald Trump’s ninety-thousand-square-foot ballroom will resemble the “much-needed and exquisite addition” promised by whitehouse.gov. Or perhaps it’ll just be the ultimate reality-television…

Several years ago, when I was profiling Ben Lerner for the Times Magazine, I spent an afternoon with him at the Whitney Museum. As we walked from room to room, Lerner spoke in freely flowing paragraphs about the paintings on the walls and the memories they…

A young Black chef from Orlando conjures a distinctive image of her home state, beyond the loud luxury of Miami and the kitsch of the Keys.

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

How Carlos Eduardo Espina reaches millions of followers.