From start-up countries to gated communities, privately ruled zones can sidestep taxes, regulation, and democratic rule itself.

“I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home” blends the historical and the present, the real world and the spiritual.

The Netflix documentary about Arnold Schwarzenegger doesn’t know quite what to do with his disturbing rise in politics.

He takes his place with Melville, Faulkner, and Twain in the pantheon.

Pat Sajak has announced his retirement from the game show. Before you mourn his loss, remember what he stood for.

A sociologist spoke with 50 gun sellers about 2020’s dramatic uptick in firearms sales and its effects.

Denée Benton called out the governor of her home state while presenting an award at the Tonys.

No other show better understands the slippage between who we are in private and who we are in public.

“Arrangements in Blue” and “A Life of One’s Own” work through the puzzles of single life through art and music.

Tina Satter’s film “Reality” on HBO captures the cruelty of the surveillance state.

Centuries of history fed into Putin’s disastrous decision to go to war.

What do politicos turned authors know that we don’t?

Just not in the way you might think.

Amanda Gorman’s “The Hill We Climb” is restricted after just one parent complained about it.

Amis trusted you to keep pace with his wit, his bawdiness, his erudition. His work seems to say: You and me—we get it.

Danish design was a product of postwar social democracy.

The show’s final episodes reject the cynicism and exhaustion of our moment.

The battle for power and influence in the nation’s capital is more shameless, desperate, and embarrassing than ever.

New CEO shift going well *thumbs up*

Paul Schrader’s portrait of an ex–white supremacist gang member is an unlikely feat of optimism.