How Bill Clinton set the stage for the GOP's war on the poor.

“The Seventh Function of Language” is a whodunit set among French intellectuals.

In the wake of the housing crisis, a new breed of real estate investor is destroying America's cities.

How Trump boosted his book sales and gamed the New York Times best-seller list.

The '50s noir novelist investigated sources of rot in the American grain.

I argued that demographics favored the Democrats. I was wrong.

No matter how he leaves the White House, we'll never be rid of Trump—and all that he represents about America.

A right-wing economist’s plan to rig democracy for the rich.

How Trump quietly gutted a program to combat homegrown extremists.

Closed off from the world, North Korea weaves a highly militarized mind-set into the fabric of everyday life.

A new Canadian pipeline could be "game over" for the climate—and activists are lining up to stop it.

"The Deuce" refuses to glamorize '70s New York.

Ravi Gupta is recruiting a fresh slate of candidates to take down Trump. But can a former Obama staffer forge a new path for Democrats?

“The Unknown Girl” examines a middle-class liberal’s dilemma.

A look inside the massive immigration enforcement apparatus that Obama built up—and that Trump is now exploiting.

Does "Pride and Prejudice" contain subversive political messages?

Why did Yousef Muslet face life in prison for an everyday gesture?

How the aspirational class expresses its status in an age of inequality.