Non-stop electioneering inevitably overshadows our existing government.

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The unsettled science of weight control.

A poem

Today’s chefs are using neurogastronomy to change the way your brain perceives flavor.

Infrastructure is everywhere, and its upkeep is proving impossible.

We have a habit of looking to the animal kingdom to validate the way we love.

"Exit Right” traces the political transformations of Ronald Reagan, Christopher Hitchens, and others.

For nearly a year, politicians must work the long, hard road to the New Hampshire primary.

David Denby dives deep into the English classes of three high schools in his new book “Lit Up.”

Robert Lowell adored intelligent women and treated them terribly.

For writers of historical fiction, fact fades and feeling persists.

Republicans have been demanding an anti-Obama for years—and tonight, they'll begin the process of nominating one.

The circus is still the spectacle, but Nicole Brown Simpson remains missing from the proceedings.

The former Islamic radical says dialogue can defeat extremism. But he doesn’t practice what he preaches.

Equal parts drill sergeant, data junkie, brawler, and entrepreneur, Jeff Roe will do anything to win. Just watch.

A new collection of the novelist’s correspondence reveals her overlapping, passionate relationships.

These subversive coloring books ridiculed pill-popping executives, hipsters, communist-hunters, and conspiracy theorists.

How did fear come to loom so large in Republican rhetoric?