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 ...

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.

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

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

Critics from the left and the right say Big Tech companies are exploiting the visa system for high-skilled workers to reduce ...

Our top priority is making sure no hacker gets into your account. So, as soon as we locate your biological grandparents and ...

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

Men with circular scrubbers and power washers followed, sudsing the sidewalks of Bourbon Street, which runs for twelve blocks ...

Gottfried Leibniz made conceptual advances that lie behind our digital world. Yet for centuries he was mocked for a misstep.

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