The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.

It wasn’t his rivals.

Sherman Alexie’s “What You Pawn I Will Redeem,” published in The New Yorker in April of 2003 and collected that year in Ten Little Indians, hands its narrator a task with a deadline and a price. Jacks...

A federal judge in Boston found the administration couldn’t even define what diversity, equity and inclusion is.

Revisiting Chekhov’s literary prescriptions for our divided times.

How many writers does it take to fix a short story? The premise of the creative writing workshop is that it takes a room full of writers, reading and offering feedback and working through the kinks…

A new study says the industry’s expansion echoes patterns of environmental and health harms that have long plagued the state.

On a summer night in 1970, in a harbor town on the Long Island Sound, two teenagers sit at the end of a fishing pier and wish the world would stop turning, just for a moment.

The media needs to step up. Donald Trump needs to be removed from office.

Theatre told that Facebook and Instagram filter out ads mentioning ‘social topics’ such as civil rights or feminism

On a summer night in 1970, in a harbor town on the Long Island Sound, two teenagers sit at the end of a fishing pier and wish the world would stop turning, just for a moment. The war has taken her bro...

Why can’t the people who produced the technology, which has already shown that a different world is possible, just do the things that would prevent extinction?

Unsure if the latest “marketing expert” emailing you is a scammer or not? Here’s an ongoing list of them.

Many of the tech billionaires who built our world have taken the wrong lessons from their favorite science fiction.

The first time I saw Brenda she asked me to hold her glasses. Then she stepped out to the edge of the diving board and looked foggily into the pool; it could have been drained, myopic Brenda would nev...

Neoliberal policies have hollowed out democracies and spawned unchecked oligarchs. Grasping their structure points to a fix

Academic censorship is very real.

Congress made Labor Day a federal holiday five days before Cleveland broke the Pullman strike. Twelve years later a novel about a Lithuanian family in Packingtown produced a meat inspection law nobody...

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Dear Bob: What would you say about a consulting project manager who says to a member of his team, "stop talking because what you are saying doesn't make any sense," in front of the entire team and the...

Every culture tells stories about its origins, and most of those stories flatter the teller. Founding myths tend to celebrate. They explain how a people became great, name the heroes who made them so,...

Theodore Dreiser spent more than three decades on the life of a single businessman. He opened the story in The Financier (1912), carried it forward in The Titan (1914), and did not finish it until aft...

In our final story in this study, “The Lady with the Pet Dog” (1899), Dmitry Gurov, a Moscow banker, meets Anna Sergeyevna while on vacation in Yalta without his wife and children. Both Dmitry and Ann...

In “On Love” (1898), two men—veterinary surgeon Ivan Ivanovitch and his friend Burkin, a schoolmaster—seek shelter at a third man’s (Alyokhin) estate while on a hunting trip. Over breakfast, the men d...

When I declared an English major at UCLA in the fall of 1980, the first thing I had to do was buy The Norton Anthology of English Literature, volumes 1 and…

The giant computing sites that power A.I. are increasingly opposed by communities across the country, a signal of voters’ concern about a changing economy.