In today’s newsletter, the ritualistic sights and scenes at Pope Francis’s funeral. Plus: I watched the funeral for Pope ...

Now everything must change. That kind of knowledge production has, in effect, been automated. As a result, the “scientistic” ...

Jeff Bark’s elaborately composed scenes channel sundered American fantasies. They also function as personal folklore.

In Dea Kulumbegashvili’s film, Ia Sukhitashvili plays a Georgian obstetrician who views a woman’s right to choose as an ...

Hearing aids and cochlear implants have been getting better for years, but a new type of device—eyeglasses that display ...

From the daily newsletter: what happens when we can optimize pregnancy. Plus: Susan B. Glasser on Trump’s confused desires.

It took its current form in 2018, under President Andrés Manuel López Obrador—a pugnacious, swaggering populist known ...

Paul Clement complained that Big Law was becoming “increasingly woke.” Now he’s defending one firm’s right to do just that.

In 1981, Billy Idol moved from London, where he’d had some success with his punk band Generation X, to Manhattan. He found a one-room West Village apartment, at One Sheridan Square, where his ...

The President is at the center of a brazenly transactional ecosystem that rewards flattery and lockstep loyalty.

Also: reviews of Broadway’s “Smash” and “John Proctor Is the Villain”; New York’s financial crisis of 1975 in “Drop Dead City ...