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A jury will soon decide whether the evident suffering that moved her to violence also mitigates it.

An interview with the transgender CIA analyst fired from Trump’s White House

The U.S. and Europe have no clear plan for a joint attack from Russia and China.

Experts worry that the water-system hacks may be a warm-up for attacks on the elections in November.

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His rage is driving him to make irrational policy choices.

The loneliness crisis comes to campus.

The author on Air Force One with the President’s Daily Brief in 2018

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Technology may shape how and what we learn, but the act of learning itself is deeply human.

The administration delivers a win for financial crooks at the expense of honest businesses.

Systemic, ritualized dishonesty undid the Cambridge professor.

The early onslaught of pumpkin-spice products can make it easy to forget what’s so special about the season we’re in now.

Panelists joined to discuss the political consequences of the continued conflict.

Many Americans are waiting for their kid to be “ready” to use the toilet—and waiting, and waiting, and waiting.

Can the former NIAID director’s private text messages tell us anything we don’t already know?

The country may have hoped that deeper drone attacks would cause Russians to protest the war, but mass demonstrations don’t look likely.

Rob Sand isn’t progressive or moderate. What is he trying to be?

For most online daters, it won’t make a difference.

How a show ends determines how it’s remembered.

The masked web-slinger has been setting box-office records for decades, even as the popularity of superhero movies wanes.

For the characters in The Disappearers , seeing and being seen are matters of life and death.

Szabo Sopov Kristof of Hungary practices ahead of the 2026 IWWF World Cable Wakeboard & Wakeskate Championships at Shunyi Olympic Cable Park on August 9, 2026, in Beijing, China.

The Brink of War , a new film about the Reykjavik summit, is too kind to the Gipper.

The plot of One Night Only is extremely silly. It also contains a grain of truth.

The Treasury has made the American economy a safe space for corruption.

Also no.

Americans have been stuck in a state of vaccine whiplash.

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. thought Nixon’s downfall would restrain presidents for generations. Instead, Watergate helped write the script for the scandals that followed.

The center’s board voted—again—to shut down for a renovation. It threw in a design tweak.

A gym-class-style competition might be the oddest 250th celebration yet.

The U.S. is trying to destroy Mexican cartels. But so far, a turf war has only deepened.

Subpar connectivity on airplanes was a gift, in a way.