Ostensibly created to bring down costs, the National Energy Dominance Council operates in secrecy. What we know about it is disturbing.

AI hasn’t made Gen Zers obsolete—yet. But they’re being asked to prove themselves in an economy moving toward a future that seems, well, just not that into them.

Sarah Anderson’s novel about a surrogate is also a novel about crappy jobs and bad bosses.

A teardown plan in one of Manhattan’s most desirable neighborhoods has sparked a pitched battle between some tenants and the New York City Housing Authority. Is this public housing’s last stand?

Fundraising costs gobble up most of the funds raised. Billions are spent on TV ads that have virtually no impact. Candidates may win or lose—but the consulting class always wins.

Paweł Pawlikowski’s Fatherland, starring Hanns Zischler and Sandra Hüller, maps postwar Germany’s fault lines through a family drama.

Sharon Horgan’s new show on HBO is a triumphant, unexpected follow-up to Motherland.

Trump’s “human printer” sounds an awful lot like the tear-jerking tragic romance novel.

The unsettling events of Ayad Akhtar’s The Radiance reflect a broader malaise in society.

A new biography of Eugene Debs makes clear that in the United States, the story of socialism is really the story of opposition to socialism.

Canada’s new prime minister is trying to play a global game.

Reports of a literacy crisis misunderstand the way we read today.

Cristian Mungiu’s film plays the story of a Romanian family investigated by child protective services in Norway for maximum ambiguity.

Trump is following one of the Republican Party’s long-standing traditions: burning the economy to the ground.

In Emily Ogden’s new book, Poe is not a concocter of hokey ghost stories. He is an excavator of repressed emotion.

Interview shows like Amy Poehler’s Good Hang are taking the place of traditional TV.

End-times prophecy, pro-war prayer circles, Democrats as demons: Christian dominionism’s influence is everywhere in the second Trump administration—and increasingly, within America itself. Can democracy survive the assault?