The haphazard origins of American gun culture.

A poem

A poem.

A poem

Photographer Aliza Eliazarov reclaims discarded food by reimagining it in the style of the 17th-century masters.

The trouble with the Maadana lyre.

How to think about the food we waste.

Rolling through the West in search of the American dream.

The internet has given us a new public square. Now law enforcement is trying to harness its power.

They’re a vestige of an internet utopia that never came to be.

Evolutionary theorist Edward O. Wilson has an ambitious plan to halt ecological ruin.

A native son prepares for his last stand in the state that knows him best.

The eugenic legacy of a 1927 Supreme Court decision to sterilize “imbeciles.”

Katie Roiphe’s new book explores the final days of Susan Sontag, Sigmund Freud, John Updike, and other writers at the end.

At the Whitney, filmmaker Laura Poitras transforms evidence into art.

The reluctant roots of his radicalism.

Non-stop electioneering inevitably overshadows our existing government.

We have a habit of looking to the animal kingdom to validate the way we love.

Republicans have been demanding an anti-Obama for years—and tonight, they'll begin the process of nominating one.

The circus is still the spectacle, but Nicole Brown Simpson remains missing from the proceedings.