From Aubrey Hirsch, It Could Be Much, Much Worse, an illustrated guide to what health care and insurance was like in the US ...

In this 10-minute video, John Lithgow reads each of the lessons from Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the ...

In this 10-minute video, John Lithgow reads each of the lessons from Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century ( Bookshop ).

With the election of Donald Trump in 2016 and, especially, again in 2024, the adjacent possible of American society has shifted dr ...

A little over two months after Trump returned to power, it seems undeniable that even critical observers underestimated the speed and scope of the Trumpist assault and overestimated democratic ...

I have one kid entering college this fall and one a few years away, so I’ve been thinking (with fury and sadness) about the ...

There are so many reasons these days to covet a Swiss passport but let me give you one more: the design kicks ass. First ...

The Hubble Space Telescope “has observed some fascinating cosmic wonder every day of the year, including on your birthday& ...

There are so many reasons these days to covet a Swiss passport but let me give you one more: the design kicks ass. First ...

Writing for the New York Review ( archive ), Sally Rooney profiles “genius” snooker player Ronnie O’Sullivan. But much of the ...

In a stage production that premiered last year in London, Steve Coogan played four roles (Dr. Strangelove, Captain Mandrake, Presi ...

Here’s the trailer for Shopping for Superman, a crowdfunded documentary on the 50-year history of local comic book stores ...