More precise names for the “Personal Life” section on Wikipedia. Tough-guy things I can do because I don’t wear a face mask. It’s becoming pretty clear that something is going on with the crossword ...

My hair is parted to the side—it looks so nerdy parted in the middle! I know I’m still dating myself, but what do I care? At ...

The memes responding to Trump’s seesawing tariff policy hint at a collective psychological state.

Universities are accustomed to acquiescing to the government, but Trump made Harvard an offer it couldn’t not refuse.

A legal scholar argues that the judiciary’s “passive-aggressive approach” to the Trump Administration is doomed to fail.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo has some of the largest deposits on Earth. Its President wants to sell them—and win a ...

Last year, for my birthday, my wife gave me a copy of “ I Remember ,” an unusual memoir by the artist Joe Brainard. It’s a ...

More precise names for the “Personal Life” section on Wikipedia. Tough-guy things I can do because I don’t wear a face mask.

People who love Phish do so with a quasi-religious devotion. People who dislike Phish do so with an equal fervor.

From the daily newsletter: the constitutional rights of embryos. Plus: evidence of starvation, dehydration, and neglect in ...

“You often need a martyr or someone very committed to act first,” Margaret Levi, a professor emerita of political science at ...

Music is no longer a matter for the few,” Kurt Weill declared in 1928, the year he wrote “The Threepenny Opera.” In Weill’s ...