From the daily newsletter: reading for the year ahead. Plus: direct democracy comes to America; requiem for a refugee camp; ...

No wonder, then, that all eyes were on Trump when he entered the Washington National Cathedral on Thursday morning to bid ...

Foreman was one of the last living crossover theatrical eccentrics, an outsider artist whose philosophically rigorous work ...

Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist” is such a film—one that proclaims its ambition by the events and themes that it takes on, ...

The fuss around the grand master’s wearing of denim pants to a tournament is a reflection of tensions within the game.

Insects make up about forty per cent of living species, and we tend to kill them without pause. New research explores the ...

Critics don’t vote for the Academy Awards—but here’s how one critic would fill out his imaginary ballot.

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With four fires raging, tens of thousands have evacuated and others are confronting the precarity of where they live.

A growing legal movement has turned to the principle of universal jurisdiction, which allows national courts to take on ...

Plans for a striking national monument next to the Palace of Westminster have been mired in disagreement for years.

A group of sociologists found that few Russians were steadfast supporters of the war. Most had something more complicated to ...