The Chinese Communist Party has embraced the study of Greek and Latin—as, in some ways, an antidote to the modern West.

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The musician Mitski, who just released her eighth studio album, “Nothing’s About to Happen to Me,” discusses an album, a TV ...

Taking out Mencho was a win for the Mexican President, Claudia Sheinbaum, helping to mollify the U.S. President, Donald Trump ...

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Long overlooked, the painter was an American genius, turning color into its own form of storytelling. In a new show at the Whitney, the painter’s strengths emerge not from empathy but from a strange, ...

For decades, research universities have relied on federal funding, with no guarantee that it will last. Now their survival may depend on compliance with the government.

Every awards season is one battle after another, and the ninety-eighth Academy Awards ceremony promises a more climactic showdown than most.

As the cost of living continues to spiral upward, the White House is dismantling the government agency built to protect Americans from financial ruin.

Published in the print edition of the March 16, 2026, issue, with the headline “A Day in the Pre-Internet World*.” If you’re on your phone: Clara and Desmond are spies, and they are meeting at a ...

From my upstairs-bedroom window, I used to ponder / its sagging timber shoulders and open gable roof.” ...

In the course of the story, the woman relives several terminated pregnancies from her past, which means also reliving the ...