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.

Wasn’t it the case that all friendships involved some amount of attraction? It was the engine of curiosity, the mystery that propelled any relationship forward.

The astronaut Reid Wiseman talks about going deeper into space than anyone in history, eating maple cookies in microgravity, and deciding how to spend his first day off after returning to Earth.

The outbreaks of hantavirus and Ebola expose the shortsightedness of America’s retreat, under the Trump Administration, from its role as a global-health leader.

Ayşegül Savaş reads her short story from this week’s issue. Listen here.

The author discusses her story “Many Worlds.”

With a soaring new complex in midtown, the restaurateur Simon Kim continues to turn his Korean-barbecue-meets-steak-house concept into a high-status luxury chain.

The President, in creating the “Anti-Weaponization Fund,” may have committed the rare offense that turns Republican lawmakers against him.

“I laid my head on the place between my mother’s still-warm / arm and chest, closed my eyes, and cried.”

A historic season for the Knicks.

The explorers’ crossing of the continent is America’s most famous camping trip. What was it all for?

“The blackfly breeds in streams & rivers / during the dog days of summer, / but cannot survive on sadness like the housefly.”

Plans for a forgotten art work by the late duo were found in an airshaft. Now, with the help of Christo’s nephew, “Air Package on a Ceiling” is finally on view, at Gagosian.

Pity the poor large language model!

The Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room, in Tribeca, housed three and a half million bound files, along with a handy time line charting the ickiness.

On a break from “Law & Order: S.V.U.,” the actress takes over for Daniel Radcliffe in “Every Brilliant Thing”—steps away from where her mother, Jayne Mansfield, had her Broadway début.

The President’s stock dealing, $1.8-billion “anti-weaponization” slush fund, and grant of immunity from the I.R.S. demonstrate the need for major ethics reforms.

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Even as the U.S. claims to be nearing an agreement to end the conflict, Tehran’s ability to close the Strait of Hormuz and hold the global economy hostage has reinforced the power of regime hard-liners.