How Lena Dunham defied expectations and remade TV.

How did Donald Trump—a thrice-married, biblically illiterate sexual predator—hijack the religious right?

The true cause of our sleeplessness epidemic.

Why is a so-called populist trying to dismantle America's most effective consumer watchdog?

Bannonism will remain integral to Trumpism no matter what happens to Steve Bannon himself.

Today's biggest novelists are throwbacks to a simpler time.

The perils of comparing Trump to twentieth-century dictators.

Meet the far-right "think tank" working to legitimize the immigration crackdown.

A declaration of independence from Trump's America.

Feminists do not have to be ideologically pure to be radical.

These photos offer a stark reminder that, 22 years after apartheid, the country is still defined by massive inequality and stark segregation.

Trump isn’t the first conspiracy theorist in chief—just the most shameless.

Republican lawmakers are trying to criminalize dissent. Does this herald a larger and more dangerous backlash against free speech?

All across America, Klan and neo-Nazi groups are not only flourishing—they’re joining forces.

Reagan started it. Bush expanded it. Now conservatives are poised to privatize everything in sight.

What Trump shares with America's best swindlers.

How the Heritage Foundation is shaping the president's playbook.

How Rorschach’s inkblots turned personality testing into an art.

Revisiting Irving Kristol, the conservative thinker who predicted Trump’s rise.