The rivalry of two men tells the story of how Democrats fumbled with their traditional base—and how they can win again.

Instead of offering empathy, look at what the right wing does when it seizes power.

To improve conditions and lower prices, tenants should start withholding rent.

The Swedish Academy's decision to award Korean novelist Han Kang is a minor victory in a world of consolidation.

A trip to Israel and Palestine in 2023 made Coates rethink one of his most famous essays.

The Founders didn’t believe the Constitution had a fixed meaning. So why do so many of the justices?

“Intermezzo” is Rooney’s most somber novel, more attentive to loss and irreversible change.

It is not antisemitic to defend Palestinian human rights. And it’s past time for more American Jews to say so to correct a media that’s lost the thread.

Where some celebrated the triumph of liberal capitalism in the 1990s, Hobsbawm saw a failed dream.

Runners do something utterly natural but they do it in a way that strikes us as superhuman.

For years, I was a suffering artist seeking attention wherever I could find it. Like so many others, I found it on Fox News.

Sociologist Jessica Calarco interviewed ten families. She found women working overtime to hold society together.

For decades, Kurzweil has been prophesying the unstoppable rise of AI and its eventual merging with human intelligence.

Richard Beck’s “Homeland” traces the far-reaching aftereffects of the attacks and tries to recover the events of the day, as they happened.

In “Colored Television,” identity politics is as much a playground as a battleground.

Despite its title, “Mourning a Breast” is not about grief—and, really, not even that much about breasts.

In “Creation Lake,” a brilliant secret agent delights in her infiltration of a niche world of ideas.

Caroline Crampton’s new book studies the fuzzy boundaries between sickness and health.

The conservative movement’s total abandonment of even the appearance of principles has been decades in the making.

A flack’s new memoir touts his work for dictators and tycoons. But that’s only part of today’s misinformation industry.