The idea that Canada could join the E.U. used to be a fringe topic of conversation. Donald Trump’s trade war with the country has pushed it into the mainstream.

It was the end of the world, and a number of us had gathered in a large, abandoned house.

When David Martinez saw his home burn down, he and his family—his wife, Lauren, and their twin daughters—had lived in Altadena, California, in their light-filled, ranch-style bungalow, for eight years. “It was the first home we bought after we got married…

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The FX series “Adults,” which is returning for a second season, won’t restore the genre to its normcore roots—but, happily, it has no interest in doing so.

In the fall of 2024, in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale, I sat alone in a dim room, holding my cellphone’s flashlight over the cursive correspondence of the American poet and novelist Countee Cullen. I don’t tend to seek out the letters…

In the past few years, country music has reëxerted its sway on the pop-music charts and the broader Zeitgeist they reflect, but the genre’s greatest crossover success story remains the Texas singer-songwriter Kacey Musgraves. Since her 2013 major-label début…

In early March, Philip Gorman, a county supervisor in southern Wisconsin, came across a local news report that had uncovered permits related to plans for a company linked to Meta to build a hyper-scale A.I. data center in his district. The proposed data center…

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Even while refusing to admit legal fault, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram has accepted, for the first time, that much of its business model is unacceptable for children.

At only 21, the tennis phenom Alex Eala is likely already the best-ever player from Southeast Asia. Now she is seeking her first Grand Slam title at this summer’s U.S. Open.

The breakneck expansion of settlements in the West Bank has rendered American talk of a two-state solution increasingly irrelevant.

The women in Khloe Kardashian’s latest spinoff series give the sense that they are just clocking in at the reality-show office.

Flash floods, triggered by a glacial collapse in the Himalayas, have killed at least five hundred people in a nation that has contributed little to climate change but is disproportionately affected by it.

That vague daydream you have about going to Burning Man someday—the one where you emerge from the radical-honesty workshop wearing nothing but patchouli oil and then proceed to writhe ecstatically on the desert floor until dawn—may need a little fine-tuning.…

Why do we love trash and hate slop? Neil Breen’s so-bad-they’re-great movies elucidate the difference.