New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low ...

For centuries, eggnog has been a part of America’s Christmas festivities. George Washington was rumored to have his own ...

Maybe it’s the time of year, but I’ve been thinking lately about Nora, the whirling, frantic heroine of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll ...

IT WAS in the clove of seasons, summer was dead but autumn had not yet been born, that the ibis lit in the bleeding tree. The ...

The comedian Jamie Loftus’s previous podcasts have ranged wildly in subject matter—Mensa meetings, Floridian spiritualists, the comic-strip character Cathy—but benefited equally from her attention to ...

After a multiyear investigation, the House Ethics Committee reported today that former Representative Matt Gaetz paid “tens ...

America’s politicians have an age problem, and the issue seems especially acute among congressional Democrats. The prevalence ...

The president has commuted the sentences of 37 men on federal death row to life without parole, a historic move.

Recent entries into the literature of parenting offer disparate visions of dadhood as part of a man’s private, or public, ...

The state raised the minimum wage for fast-food workers—and employment kept rising. So why has the law been proclaimed a ...

The only thing we know for sure is that these conversations will be worth having. They might even be tough, difficult, or ...

It was like something out of the horrors of New York City’s past. At 7:30 yesterday morning, a man approached a woman ...