Dozens of media outlets have fled to the capital of Latvia, only to encounter a distrustful public and a set of strictly enforced laws and regulations.
The biotech industry takes on infant nutrition.
In her new book, Jenny Odell argues that structural forces have commodified our moments, days, and years. Can our lost time be reclaimed?
New computer systems aim to peer inside our heads—and to help us fix what they find there.
Enrollment in the humanities is in free fall at colleges around the country. What happened?
Fertilizers filled with the nutrient boosted our ability to feed the planet. Today, they’re creating vast and growing dead zones in our lakes and seas.
Many groups who identify as Indigenous don’t claim to be first peoples; many who did come first don’t claim to be Indigenous. Can the concept escape its colonial past?
As unrest roils the country, a controversial figure from the far right helps Benjamin Netanyahu hold on to power.
When the country’s mining industry collapsed, a criminal economy grew in its place, with thousands of men climbing into some of the deepest shafts in the world, searching for leftover gold.
Now ninety, Lady Glenconner—a trusted friend of Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret—has become a cheeky chronicler of the British élite.
Everyone seems to feel like they’re faking it. But, as the concept has spread, so has the criticism.
After a near-fatal stabbing—and decades of threats—the novelist speaks about writing as a death-defying act.
Amid a murder crisis in America, community-based solutions have received a flood of funding. How effective are they?
How a visionary medieval nun became a towering figure in early musical history.
As occupied territories are liberated, some residents face accusations that they sided with the enemy.
The artist discusses seeking inspiration from her surroundings and experiencing new ways of living.
Eric Adams’s friends and allies have puzzled over his relationship with Lamor Whitehead, a fraudster Brooklyn church leader.
Following a prison term, a fraught election, and a near-coup, the third-time President takes charge of a fractured country.
They’re floundering at school and in the workplace. Some conservatives blame a crisis of masculinity, but the problems—and their solutions—are far more complex.
Standard construction can be slow, costly, and inefficient. Machines might do it better.
Heirs to an iconic fortune sought out a wealth manager who would assuage their progressive consciences. Now their dispute is exposing dynastic secrets.
Literature departments seem to provide a haven for studying books, but they may have painted themselves into a corner.
Some people say their thought takes place in images, some in words. But our mental processes are more mysterious than we realize.
What has become of the tens of thousands of people who have disappeared on their way to Europe?
The company offers steady jobs and is enjoying record profits. So why is a strike looming?
Along the country’s seven-hundred-mile front line, constant artillery fire and drone surveillance have made it excruciatingly difficult to maneuver.
Presidents have been impeached, but none has ever been asked, after leaving office, to turn himself in for arraignment. The January 6th committee’s final actions could help change that.
Literature once filled in archival gaps by saying the unsayable. Now a younger generation is devising new modes of telling the story and finding new stories to tell.
Our first stop: a cheese Danish. Can’t skip breakfast
The Republican leader’s ambition has always been his defining characteristic. Attempting to placate both Trumpists and moderates may lead to his downfall.
Memories of a high-school job at a local seafood restaurant, blurred by time.
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