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It’s been a tumultuous primary season, but is this the Democrats’ Tea Party moment? Or is something more pragmatic emerging?
So then they did it. And it was pretty incredible—pretty incredible for a first time
Somssi, from a veteran of the restaurant group behind Atomix, knows how to reel you in without trying too hard
A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings
In “Biological War,” Annie Jacobsen imagines society collapsing from a man-made plague—part of a wave of such prophecies. But what do we miss when we try to predict the future?
Her eponymous one-woman show was the seed of her Hollywood stardom, which a new revival now frames as the source of something matrilineal, passed down to two generations of Black actresses
In 2025, ICE began detaining people at immigration hearings, an unprecedented step. The staff writer Jonathan Blitzer shares the story of one detainee whose life was turned upside down
The staff writer Jonathan Blitzer speaks with two lawmakers in Congress about the immigration crackdown: the Democrat Jason Crow, of Colorado, and the Republican Maria Salazar, of Florida
A lot of its dysfunction goes back to Newt Gingrich
The “S.N.L.” cast member partners with Liva Pierce in a musical revue about best friends with bad jobs and no girlfriends
A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings
The cyclospora outbreak lays bare our underfunded and overwhelmed public-health system