From the daily newsletter: the constitutional rights of embryos. Plus: evidence of starvation, dehydration, and neglect in ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo has some of the largest deposits on Earth. Its President wants to sell them—and win a war.

Last year, for my birthday, my wife gave me a copy of “ I Remember ,” an unusual memoir by the artist Joe Brainard. It’s a tidy little book, less than two hundred pages long, made entirely from short, ...

More precise names for the “Personal Life” section on Wikipedia. Tough-guy things I can do because I don’t wear a face mask. It’s becoming pretty clear that something is going on with the crossword ...

As I.R.S. employees toil through tax season, their agency is being dismantled by the government it powers.

People who love Phish do so with a quasi-religious devotion. People who dislike Phish do so with an equal fervor.

Music is no longer a matter for the few,” Kurt Weill declared in 1928, the year he wrote “The Threepenny Opera.” In Weill’s ...

The view from northern Europe, which, until very recently, had long seen the United States as a land of hope.

The famous Venice Beach restaurant finally has an outpost in New York, but something is inevitably lost in the migration.

In the first two years after the Supreme Court eliminated the constitutional right to abortion, the number of abortions ...

Why are incarcerated people dying from lack of food or water, even as private companies are paid millions for their care?

The Talking Heads front man brought his acrylic markers to the Pace gallery recently to make some art—dancing ovals, a ...