A 1964 Supreme Court decision affords the press strong protections against costly defamation lawsuits. That’s why a dangerous new movement is trying to overturn it.

Donald Trump is just playing on anti-Palestinian prejudice. “Shara’a Simsim” did a lot of good—until a GOP congresswoman cut the funding.

Widening the lens to capitalism itself could yield insights on how to close the gap.

Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s progressive vision for how to make government great again

In an evening light on politics and controversy (mostly), host Conan O’Brien turned the show into a boosterism event for the film industry.

The HBO show’s wealthy characters may be villainous, but that doesn’t make their lives any less alluring.

In “The Technological Republic,” the Palantir CEO exhorts Silicon Valley to embrace techno-militarism in the service of furthering American global supremacy.

Enslaved families were regularly separated​. A new history chronicles the tenacious efforts of the emancipated to be reunited​ with their loved ones.

The show takes its time to tell the story of a Palestinian refugee living and hustling and falling in love in Texas.

Conservatives might be tempted to hold up Reagan as representative of a nobler era. They’d be wrong.

For all of its faults and weaknesses, no serious competitor has emerged to capture people’s imagination or seriously challenge it.

Why do Americans idealize people who found businesses?

Twenty-seven errors, but do they really matter?

Jon Savage’s “The Secret Public” traces the influence of queer artists on a hostile culture.

Five years since the pandemic began, the ravages it exposed persist.

The Nobel laureate’s new novel “We Do Not Part” grapples with an atrocity and the difficulties of bearing witness.

Her new book tells the story of Black people through an exploration of the color blue.

“Bibliophobia” is the story of an all-consuming, sometimes destructive passion for books and reading.

The Apple TV+ show is middling as a corporate satire but profound as a mystery box.

In the philosopher’s world, provocation and controversy are inseparable from the examined life.