In 1991, during his confirmation hearings, Clarence Thomas assured senators that he would be an impartial jurist. In a recent speech, the Justice made clear that he views Progressivism, past and present, as anti-American.

A family’s desperate search after the deadliest day of the war between Hezbollah and Israel.

A new Off Broadway play and Shakespeare’s tragedy hinge on a universal anxiety: How well do you know your partner?

The photographer’s “People of the 20th Century,” now on display at Yale, was a vast, ambitious attempt to document and organize prewar German life across classes, trades, and types.

A new slate of cultural offerings presents divergent ideas about the struggles men and boys face today—and how to resolve them.

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Doug Berns, a.k.a. DugLust, is a Knicks nut and a modern-day Weird Al, who counts Ben Stiller among his devotees. With the team in the playoffs, he’s busy.

Boots Riley’s new film is an exuberantly inventive but overstretched comedy about the redistribution of luxury goods.

What’s coming this season in TV, theatre, music, movies, dance, and art.

We’ve been trained to strive for greatness at all times. Is there a positive case for being ordinary?

Fans of U.S. men’s soccer are concerned about their team ahead of the World Cup. After a string of high-profile losses, it seems they have reason to fret.

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An employee at the Federal Emergency Management Agency on the use of rescue aid as a political weapon, and how it might affect the agency’s ability to respond to the next emergency.

The U.F.C president talks to David Remnick about buying and growing the mixed-martial-arts organization, his decades of friendship with Trump, and his “awesome” night at last month’s White House Correspondents’ dinner.

How anger over artificial intelligence might drive the next wave of populist politics.

A recent exhibition at the Grolier Club featured ashes that fell from a cigarette the novelist was probably smoking on the day he died. Joyce Johnson reflects on her time with Kerouac, and what she’s kept from him.

Belle Burden’s “Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage” tells the story of her divorce and resulting financial imperilment. A review of court documents complicates her narrative.

The women pop up again and again, in canvas after canvas, like a random intrusive thought that refuses to go away, or a masturbatory fixation that both disturbs and excites.

The photographer Raghu Rai, who died last month, at the age of eighty-three, spent his life chronicling the highs and lows of the country’s post-colonial evolution.

In 2016, a retired Pennsylvania steelworker voted for Hillary Clinton. In 2020 and 2024, he voted for Donald Trump. Here’s where he stands now.