Senator Sheldon Whitehouse delivered the first in what was to become one of the—if not the—longest-running series of speeches ...

The passage of a highly regressive budget-busting measure demonstrates anew that Donald Trump’s populism is a dangerous sham.

In the Rio Grande Valley, bordering Mexico, ICE raids have emptied construction sites and restaurants. Recently turned ...

Fiction writers love it. Filmmakers can’t resist it. Parul Sehgal on whether this trope deepens characters, or flattens them into a set of symptoms.

It occupies the former home of a bar of the same name, an unassuming joint that dated to the seventies, having, itself, taken ...

The novelist and screenwriter works in a mode he calls “urban panorama”—a sociologically rich depiction of the tensions of ...

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In Tod Papageorge’s photographs of L.A. beachgoers in the nineteen-seventies and eighties, he transforms formally challenging ...

Revisiting the origins of American democracy. By Jill Lepore. In 1938, if you had a dollar and seventy-two cents, you could ...

In the spirit of summer travel, we’ve asked some of our writers living outside New York City to share a few of their favorite ...

“A victory, basically, for Combs.” A reflection on the trial of Sean Combs, in which the rapper was acquitted of the most ...

So it was telling that the only victory on the floor that Democrats scored during the hours of drama this week leading up to ...