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The child witnesses in her new book focus on the bewildering experience of war.

The people who bet big on disruptive technologies have a lot in common.

A debut novel explores self-care through the mind of a caregiver.

An Afghanistan veteran reckons with growing up on G.I. Joe and growing tired of American war drums.

From exploration to Cold War militarization, how the Arctic became the focus of the climate crisis.

On Apollo 11's fiftieth anniversary, a new exhibition at the Met explores the moon's place in our cultural imagination.

Ari Aster's folk-horror flick is frightening, beautiful, and just a little unhinged.

Crank ideas have always flourished in times of great instability and inequality.

The right turned Linda Taylor into a bogeyman. But her real life was much more complicated.

“If we can make the meat without the animal, why wouldn’t we do that?”

The HBO show’s second season feels bleaker and is harder on its characters.

The author of Hiroshima showed the world the realities of American power.

The new miniseries casts Roger Ailes and Fox News as all-powerful architects of political disaster. The truth is more complicated.

How Donald Trump and his allies have drained the stigma from society's worst transgressions.