Recent moves by the Trump Administration point to an intensification of MAGA’s illiberal project—a process that Marco Rubio appears eager to lead.

In early 2025, a man from Queens arranged to pick up a passenger in New York’s North Country. He’s been in jail upstate ever since.

In the documentary short “Sawyer Avenue, Sunday Afternoon,” body-cam and bystander footage examine a confrontation between residents and federal agents.

How’s cash sound?

Jane Wickline and Liva Pierce are down to clown in “Dukes,” a musical revue about best friends with bad jobs and no girlfriends.

A new game show features celebrities competing for the title of “Nation’s Dumbest.” How did stupidity become a badge of honor?

The President goes green.

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The cyclospora outbreak lays bare our underfunded and overwhelmed public-health system.

In “I Want Your Sex,” a B.D.S.M. workplace relationship opens up a cross-generational debate about carnal mores.

What to do this week, in New York City and beyond.

Kent Nishimura’s photographs capture the backstage labor that allows the Trump show to go on.

How much of Graham Platner’s behavior should be read through the lens of what combat did to him, and how much of it is simply who he is, independent of war?

Discrimination against the unattractive is widespread—and widely tolerated.