"Some people can go for a walk or listen to music and feel that they are deeply in touch with themselves. Others cannot.”

Don’t curb your enthusiasm.

The country’s fastest-growing Christian movement helped fuel Trump’s rise—and is gearing up for spiritual battle.

The 47th president seems to wish he were king—and he is willing to destroy what is precious about this country to get what he wants.

Older Americans might be doing more child care than ever.

Universal child care appeals to the party’s cosmopolitan base—but not to most of the country.

In April 2024, the U.S. military helped avoid a wider conflict in the Middle East by working with Israel to defeat an Iranian missile attack.

There is a social cost to many modern conveniences.

Organizers of this year’s Audubon Photography Awards shared some of their top-100 selections—featuring a rainbow-bearded thornbill, a northern pygmy-owl, Andean condors, and more.

Paramount and Warner Bros. are inching closer toward closing a deal, but they won’t be anywhere out of the woods.

They clearly violate the intent of the law. But that doesn’t mean they’ll be easy to stop.

The story of a missile system placed in a role for which it was never intended illuminates the broader challenges facing the U.S. military.

A new world has arrived. Dario Amodei and Sam Altman cannot stop fighting over it.

As Canada’s international trade minister and foreign minister, I learned that the only thing that works with this president is strength.

Trump’s envoy wants to trade Russian political prisoners for U.S. sanctions relief, creating a path to business deals before the war in Ukraine ends.

The world moved on after Kilmar Abrego Garcia, but people continue to disappear.

Democrats are now favored to take back the Senate, a prospect that seemed far-fetched a year ago.

Robert Kolker’s latest book, The Vanishing Family, tracks the effects of inherited dementia and the many transformations that follow.

For many of us, the need to be in contact with the water has grown as the space around us has been constricted.

The people casually accusing Israel of genocide

Weight-loss companies that offer the drugs are professing care for more than their customers’ waistline.

It’s buckling under the weight of strategic errors, staff turnover, and, most of all, the facts.

More than 10,000 athletes from 46 countries are now gathered in Japan, competing in 469 events across 43 different sports, during the 20th edition of the Asian Games.

This unbelievable sequence of events has huge implications.

Josh Shapiro’s one-man Black-Jewish alliance

The Pachinko author on her latest novel, American Hagwon, and parents’ near-religious belief in elite education

Poll after poll shows that Trump’s presidency is not going well. And he has only himself to blame.

The Baltics are getting ready for a Russian attack.

The president says that his immigration crackdown is behind falling crime rates. The numbers don’t back that up.

The share of adults who say they regularly have friends over has declined dramatically since 1975.

The actor wants to show that women can learn from simply imagining.

Each title richly rewards readers who come in with little prior knowledge.

Former Attorney General Eric Holder on the dismantling of the Voting Rights Act and whether the 2026 midterm elections will be free and fair

“These are not the people I interviewed to serve.”

A provocative Israeli documentary should make viewers think about their own moral parameters. Instead, it distances them from the war.

“ARGH ... WHY IS THIS SO HARD.”

Allegations about “woke nonsense” imperiled a crucial source of Americans’ common identity.

After losing his Democratic fundraisers, the Pennsylvania senator found a new firm with MAGA-world ties.

This week’s summit featured J. D. Vance, electrolyte powder, and very few mentions of vaccination.

The Dungeon Crawler Carl series is transforming how an entirely new audience engages with reading.

The secretary of defense strikes another blow against military preparedness.

For MAGA politicians, there’s no such thing as a gaffe.

Could a new populist movement help save American democracy?

Evidence suggests that it really affects what psychiatrists like me call sustained engagement — an important difference in understanding how to think about the condition.

The Irish author Sebastian Barry has made a career of mining his family history. But he kept one story buried.

Flight delays and cancellations brought on by weather, technology glitches and other issues offer a lesson: Be prepared and be flexible.

The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity party since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.

Ignore the hyperbaric chambers and infrared light: These are the evidence-backed secrets to aging well.

A new study of over 47,000 women found links between coffee drinking and healthy aging. Here’s what we know.

Some couples would rather get divorced than talk openly about their intimate lives.