Almost fifty years after the Czechoslovak human rights initiative Charter 77 was first reported in the Review’s pages, Václav Havel’s own long-lost account of his imprisonment now appears in English f...

The Trump administration has weakened fuel efficiency standards for new cars. And, prosecutors have reopened a Cornell University fraternity rape case.

Lenders don’t trust the United States anymore.

How political polarization became the organizing logic of academic life.

If this is the first time you’ve heard of it, you might wonder, “What is the Dakota 38?” The Dakota 38 refers to thirty­ eight Dakota men who were…

Into the Garden When I heard you were gone, of course I went into the garden. Barefoot in the damp greens, I tore my hair, looking skyward because what was there to do but tend to the details: form…

We forget the land we stand on

Author-agrarian Wendell Berry, a Kentucky native who celebrated the farming world of his home state and warned of the excesses of industrial society, has died.

An NPR investigation found that people in the U.S. are dying from heat much more often than official counts show. We explore the reasons why — and how lives can be saved.

Humanitarian organizations are mobilizing to aid survivors along the Nepal-China border after catastrophic floods struck the region Wednesday.

Negotiations between the U.S. and Canada broke down late Friday and tariffs went into effect early Saturday morning.

The president is trying to downsize the U.S Forest Service and eliminate wildfire and smoke research as the American West is facing a potentially epic summer fire season.

There’s something reassuring about being with people when nobody is trying especially hard.

In an article for Wired in 1999, William Gibson idly mentions a coffee shop in Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar. It sounds like a typical Turkish cafe, except for

A short story

One of the most dehumanizing effects of AI is the short cuts it offers through the gaps and impasses intrinsic to the act of writing.

Jane Yolen, author of 450 books and hundreds of poems, died on Thursday, June 11, her daughter, Heidi Stemple, said. She was 87. Among her many works, Yolen wrote 'The Devil's Arithmetic,' which was a...

The initial public offering from the rocket and AI company raised some $75 billion, making the company one of the biggest in the world — and likely making Elon Musk a trillionaire.

On KindnessSometimes, it seems people today lack empathy and can be dismissive and blind to others’ problems, especially to the elderly or disabled, but in truth, some people go out of their way to be...

The summer of 2025 broke our street. The summer of 2026 we are trying something different — and it is weirder and harder and more interesting than planting a few trees.

Someone needs to explain the Pentagon purges to the American people.

The Trump administration has shut down the CIA World Factbook, and there's much lamenting about the demise of a free source that many people used to check basic facts about countries.

The shortlisted titles include novels and novellas from authors and translators spanning four continents, with stories that range from Japanese-controlled 1930s Taiwan to the streets of Tehran in 1979.

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