From Aubrey Hirsch, It Could Be Much, Much Worse, an illustrated guide to what health care and insurance was like in the US ...

In this 10-minute video, John Lithgow reads each of the lessons from Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the ...

In this 10-minute video, John Lithgow reads each of the lessons from Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century ( Bookshop ).

With the election of Donald Trump in 2016 and, especially, again in 2024, the adjacent possible of American society has shifted dr ...

I have one kid entering college this fall and one a few years away, so I’ve been thinking (with fury and sadness) about the ...

A little over two months after Trump returned to power, it seems undeniable that even critical observers underestimated the speed and scope of the Trumpist assault and overestimated democratic ...

There are so many reasons these days to covet a Swiss passport but let me give you one more: the design kicks ass. First ...

The Hubble Space Telescope “has observed some fascinating cosmic wonder every day of the year, including on your birthday& ...

There are so many reasons these days to covet a Swiss passport but let me give you one more: the design kicks ass. First ...

Writing for the New York Review ( archive ), Sally Rooney profiles “genius” snooker player Ronnie O’Sullivan. But much of the ...

In a stage production that premiered last year in London, Steve Coogan played four roles (Dr. Strangelove, Captain Mandrake, Presi ...

Here’s the trailer for Shopping for Superman, a crowdfunded documentary on the 50-year history of local comic book stores ...