Even if Maine’s longtime senator is finally defeated by a Democrat, her lengthy tenure speaks to the power of bringing federal money home—and asking voters to overlook other misgivings.

The White House has quietly paused an order to end Temporary Protected Status for thousands of immigrants from El Salvador, a move that came after months of lobbying from the construction industry and other interest groups.

At the Pro-Human Assembly in Washington, D.C., attendees talked less about jobs and policy, and more about their philosophy of life.

Joseph Szabo’s pictures capture American adolescents’ spontaneous presence and loose-limbed, insouciant grace.

At the Pro-Human Assembly in Washington, D.C., attendees talked less about jobs and policy, and more about their philosophy of life.

The melodramatic power of Dakota Johnson and Anne Hathaway is squandered in “Verity,” a romantic tale that’s ludicrously muddled by suspicions of monstrous misdeeds.

Parenting is a practice, the hockey dad learns. You learn from your mistakes and then repeat them anyway.

In the novel “Ply,” Hernan Diaz imagines a ruined New York, a fractured society, and the ultimate structure of existence.

Joseph Szabo’s pictures capture American adolescents’ spontaneous presence and loose-limbed, insouciant grace.

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The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “The Owl's Night,” by Mahmoud Darwish, and her own poem “The Museum of Stones.”

At the Pro-Human Assembly in Washington, D.C., attendees talked less about jobs and policy, and more about their philosophy of life.

The Pulitzer Prize winner’s intimate new novel, “Partita,” is out next week.

Can you make a longer word with each new letter?

Midler who played herself in a “Seinfeld” episode: five letters.

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In Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s conceptually elaborate apocalyptic farce, hectoring satire and visual sublimity fight to a draw.

Can you guess when these New Yorker cartoons were originally published?

Leaders of cities around the world are standing up for democracy, even if the leaders of their countries are not.

Parenting is a practice, the hockey dad learns. You learn from your mistakes and then repeat them anyway.

From the daily newsletter: the weather still growing in the Pacific is truly fearsome. What should we expect?

The Million Dollar Highway, prone to rockfall and avalanches, is the site of horrific crashes and courageous rescues. Why doesn’t anyone want to fix it?

The journalist Evan Gershkovich details the delicate rapport he developed with his cellmate at Moscow’s Lefortovo prison.

The journalist Evan Gershkovich details the delicate rapport he developed with his cellmate at Moscow’s Lefortovo prison.

Caleb Hammer, the host of the popular YouTube series “Financial Audit,” claims that his goal is to make his viewers more financially literate, with his down-and-out interviewees serving as extreme test cases for what not to do.

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Outfit Only: I totally look like I’m in a sexy version of “Little House on the Prairie,” but I refuse to do a single chore.

Government lawyers who think that the Trump Administration is subverting justice are facing a quandary: Should they stay or should they go?

Offensive player farthest from the line of scrimmage: eight letters.

Can you guess when these New Yorker cartoons were originally published?

A new book revisits a notorious British sexual-assault trial in which a woman was convicted of posing as a man in bed.

The journalist Evan Gershkovich details the delicate rapport he developed with his cellmate at Moscow’s Lefortovo prison.

Nikole Hannah-Jones sent her daughter to a struggling local school and has come to regret it. But personalizing the problem is the wrong approach.

Can you sort the items into the correct order?

Can you make a longer word with each new letter?

Caleb Hammer, the host of the popular YouTube series “Financial Audit,” claims that his goal is to make his viewers more financially literate, with his down-and-out interviewees serving as extreme test cases for what not to do.

A.I. is everywhere, and it’s often hard to tell what’s even real.

Caleb Hammer, the host of the popular YouTube series “Financial Audit,” claims that his goal is to make his viewers more financially literate, with his down-and-out interviewees serving as extreme test cases for what not to do.

Government lawyers who think that the Trump Administration is subverting justice are facing a quandary: Should they stay or should they go?

From the daily newsletter: Eyal Press on the career civil servants facing an excruciating choice.

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Caleb Hammer, the host of the popular YouTube series “Financial Audit,” claims that his goal is to make his viewers more financially literate, with his down-and-out interviewees serving as extreme test cases for what not to do.

The journalist Evan Gershkovich details the delicate rapport he developed with his cellmate at Moscow’s Lefortovo prison.

Is your life savings a single moth? Are you afflicted with moola eyes? It might be a sign we’re in a downturn.

Funny drawings from this week’s magazine.

The performance artist Joey Arias and the puppeteer Basil Twist are reviving their avant-garde cabaret show, a leggy fantasia beloved by Cyndi Lauper and the late Paul Reubens.

From vast grids to winding suburbs, Americans have spent two centuries remaking the landscape around property.