There is a Hebrew word for “squeezed,” sachut, which also means “being played.” In Jerusalem, after more than a week of the ...

We won,” the President who’s treating the conflict with Iran like a video game says, but “we’re not finished yet.” ...

No, not next Saturday at Knockdown Center—it’s “The Wild Party,” Michael John LaChiusa and George C. Wolfe’s musicalization ...

Two years ago, the social psychologist Jonathan Haidt’s book about the dangers of social-media became a best-seller—and the subject of some critical eye-rolling. Now, for many, it’s become essential.

Donald Trump plunged the U.S. into a potentially disastrous war with Iran with no clear rationale or exit plan. He’s now flailing for ways to mitigate its economic consequences, John Cassidy writes.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton believed that she was a person of “superior intelligence and courage.” This fuelled her radical politics—and her eventual descent into bigotry.

Scientists want to redesign psychedelics so that they don’t induce a trip—but they still improve mental health.

When Marimar Martinez was shot five times by a Border Patrol agent, the D.H.S. justified it by calling her a “domestic ...

In 2006, Ryan Gosling, then in his twenties, starred in a tough-minded, low-budget drama called “Half Nelson,” in which he played a middle-school teacher hobbled by a crack addiction. Years later, the ...

Few cases have revealed as much as Martinez’s about the mind-set of the agents enforcing Trump’s immigration crackdown in Chicago and elsewhere. The Border Patrol agent who shot Martinez, Charles Exum ...

Russia’s President is profiting from rising oil prices, but he’s also facing a hard new reality: he’s no longer the lead ...

Clare Barron’s “You Got Older” is a rare play about a good dad. Wallace Shawn’s “What We Did Before Our Moth Days” is ...