This article appears in the April 2025 print edition with the headline “The Cranky Visionary.” ...

At a conference on European security, the opioid dispenser may tell you that Trump is hostile to the European allies because ...

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Sadegh Zibakalam is in trouble again for criticizing Iranian foreign policy.

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The Palestinian American sitcom is the first of its kind—and takes its humor very seriously.

Nicholas B. Dirks, the former chancellor of UC Berkeley, is the president of the New York Academy of Sciences. He is the author of City of Intellect: The Uses and Abuses of the University.

With every passing day, it is harder to remember that Elon Musk was not always a political firebrand. The old Musk advocated ...

If the defining feeling of the start of the first Trump administration was chaos, its equivalent in this term is whiplash.

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Treating clean indoor air as a public good would have protected Americans against all sorts of airborne diseases. In the ...