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What Is Comedy For?
The question has never been harder to answer.
Madonna Forever
Why the artist keeps scandalizing each generation anew
The Smartest Man Who Ever Lived
A novelist transforms the physicist John von Neumann into a scientific demon
WHAT ΜΙΤΤ RΟΜΝΕΥ SAW ΙΝ ΤΗE SENATE
BEHIND CLOSED DOORS, THE HYPOCRISY AND CYNICISM ARE EVEN WORSE THAN YOU THINK
Her?
No one seems to think Kamala Harris is ready to be president. Here's what they're missing.
We Are Not at War.We Are at Work.
RUNNING THE WASHINGTON POST IN DONALD TRUMP'S D.C.
THE PATRIOT
What does a general do when the commander in chief undermines the Constitution?
BLACK SUCCESS, WHITE BACKLASH
Black prosperity has provoked white resentment that can make life exhausting for people of color-and it has led to the undoing of policies that have nurtured Black advancement
Zadie Smith Has Doubts About Fiction
In her ambitious new novel, she asks whether we expect too much of the genre.
The Man Who Became Uncle Tom
Harriet Beecher Stowe said that Josiah Henson's life had inspired her most famous character. But Henson longed to be recognized by his own name, and for his own achievements.
Life After "I Do"
George Eliot's subversive vision of marriage
The Other Naomi
A left-wing author finds herself constantly confused with a right-wing conspiracist.
I, Sly
Sly Stone tells his story.
THE FINAL DAYS
JOE BIDEN WAS DETERMINED TO GET OUT OF AFGHANISTAN-NO MATTER THE COST
The Joy and the Funk and the Mire
The critic dream hampton thinks hip-hop is broken. But she can't stop trying to fix it.
THE PRIME MINISTER and THE MOONIES
THE BIZARRE STORY BEHIND THE ASSASSINATION OF SHINZO ABE
Jenisha From Kentucky
I came to New York sure of one thing-that no one could ever know my past.
NIXON BETWEEN THE LINES
Alone in his study, ballpoint pen in hand, the president revealed himself in the margins of his books.
TRUMP ON TRIAL
The drama now unfolding will make for perhaps the most surreal presidential-election cycle in American history. How will it end?
A Sunnier Edvard Munch
A new exhibition offers a counterpoint to The Scream.
The Man Who Transformed American Theater
How August Wilson became one of the country's most influential playwrights
Owls Aren't That Smart
But they have uncanny powers.
Lost Histories of Coexistence
James McBride's new novel tells a story of solidarity between Black and Jewish communities.
How America Got Mean
In a culture devoid of moral education, generations are growing up in a morally inarticulate, self-referential world.
Inside the Revolution at OpenAI
Sam Altman doesn't know where artificial intelligence will lead humanity. But he's taking us there anyway.
I thought my mother was an only child. I was wrong.
The Ones We Sent Away
THE RISE OF BRONZE AGE PERVERT
HOW A FASCIST BODYBUILDER CAPTURED THE IMAGINATION OF THE FAR RIGHT
KILLER APPS
Is social media making America's murder surge worse?
THE RESILIENCE GAP
In 2008, when I was a writer for the blog Feministe, commenters began requesting warnings at the top of posts discussing distressing topics, most commonly sexual assault.
A Star Reporter's Break With Reality
Lara Logan was once a respected 60 Minutes correspondent. Now she trades in conspiracy theories that even farright media disavow. What happened?