The passions of Pennsylvania were on full display in the last week of the campaign in the battleground state. Photographer Mark Peterson was there to capture the action.

Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant make the case for health care revolution.

After the Nets suspended Irving for five games, Irving has finally kind of apologized.

Timothy Shenk studies how political leaders build popular majorities. He warns that the next big realignment could be led by the right.

Charles Leerhsen’s biography promises the unfiltered story of Bourdain’s life and final days. But it misses the qualities that made him so magnetic in the first place.

While the anti-monopoly movement has a huge victory to celebrate, the publishing industry is left with a sense of impending doom.

In the quaint, well-to-do worlds of her novels, anyone could be guilty. Murderers kill to beat the social order at its own game.

China in the 1980s contemplated a more liberal future—then wrote those debates out of its history.

The author of “City of Quartz” and “Ecology of Fear” changed the way we think about cities, inequality, and climate change.

Gurnah’s haunting novels of war and oppression, which won him the Nobel Prize in literature last year, defy the dominant trends in American publishing.

Longtermists focus on ensuring humanity’s existence into the far future. But not without sacrifices in the present.

At its peak in the eighteenth century, Jena in Germany may have had a higher concentration of geniuses than Renaissance Florence or ancient Athens—and plenty of drama.

Nancy Fraser talks about work, debt, and a breakdown of shared meaning.

Americans may appear to be split along educational lines—but the dysfunction goes much deeper.

Adam Hochschild’s new book documents a period of thriving radical groups and their devastating suppression.

Her novels First Love and My Phantoms work a kind of magic, making stuck relationships at once believably maddening and oddly addictive. 

Stanislav Aseyev was abducted by Russian security forces in 2017. The next nearly three years were literally torture. But since February, he’s seen even worse.

In her memoir, the former public editor of The New York Times surveys the ills of the news business.

The GOP believed it could appeal to its extremist fringe, without succumbing to it.

Finally, the Swedish Academy got it right.