Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett each had a different vision of reproductive freedom. Would reproductive rights be more secure if Dennett’s had prevailed?

Artificial intelligence is coming to warfare. Can it learn ethics?

Emmanuel Carrère chronicled the trial of the perpetrators of the November 2015 attacks on Paris. It makes a sharp contrast with the United States’ efforts at Guantanamo.

The authors of the bestselling “How Democracies Die” talk with editor Michael Tomasky about what kind of mark four more years of Donald Trump might leave on this democracy.

“The Room Next Door” is not quite willing to confront its subject in all its difficulty.

Most other European nations have welcomed back the blameless children of parents who went off to fight with ISIL. But not France. What is Emmanuel Macron so afraid of?

Lili Anolik’s new book sets the two writers up as rivals. But they were never in competition.

The president’s domestic record wasn’t just extraordinary. It might put Democrats back in power in four years.

From “What We Do in the Shadows” to “Interior Chinatown,” Waititi has a gift for making defiantly original, rambling, rollicking, freewheeling shows.

“Rejection” is a panorama of deviance, degradation, and isolation.

We assume that victims will find closure when the people who hurt them are imprisoned. But many say that to heal, they need something else entirely.

How politicians used the story of one young patient to neglect the AIDS crisis

Our culture has become obsessed with “blue zones,” where people purportedly live longer. But does the underlying research stand up to scrutiny?

Yes, he’s authoritarian. But the specific danger he poses is the chaos caused by his lack of discipline, not a triumph of the will.

A set of peculiarly American anxieties has spread across continents.