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.

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