In the opening scene of the Oscar-nominated film The Secret Agent, a dead body lies in front of a gas station in the middle of nowhere. When the police arrive, they are not interested in the body, but ...

In theory, the death penalty is reserved for “the worst of the worst.” In practice, it is very different. People who are ...

Readers respond to a guest essay about the Paul Thomas Anderson movie “One Battle After Another” by the daughter of two Weatherman. Also: Will we be around to unearth a time capsule?

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is rooting for David Ellison's Paramount Skydance to close its $111 billion deal to acquire ...

For lawyers pursuing a president’s agenda, however, it’s a very different story. Like all other lawyers licensed to practice ...

From the whirlwind start of the second Trump administration through the war in Iran, Americans have been put to a very difficult task: How are they to make sense of this cascade of events? Last fall, ...

“It is worse than a crime; it is a blunder.” Thus was the response of a prominent French politician to the news that Napoleon had executed an enemy duke in 1804.

Rebuffing pressure from President Trump, a legal office says the prime minister should be pardoned only if he resigns, confesses or is convicted.

What do you think middle-class American life should look like? What should it feel like? How does that differ from how you’re feeling right now? Is it possible for you to achieve?

America is drowning in debt. It has expanded over years and even decades, but President Trump and his allies in Congress have piled on a giant new load. In fiscal year 2025, the United States spent ...

The United States and Israel have been conducting airstrikes on Iran for a week and a half. Stephen Stromberg, an editor in ...

There is an alternate universe in which Donald Trump is the popular, successful president of his imagination.