Democrats are claiming victory. But what did they really gain?

No Attorney General has done more damage to the Justice Department. Her successor could be even more dangerous.

Families are doing ad-hoc forensics to confirm the whereabouts of their detained loved ones, who have been transferred to undisclosed locations, and are at risk of abuse or execution.

The two men might wish that they lived in a world where whoever dropped the most bombs got whatever he wanted. But the war has shown that this isnt true.

Tascha Van Auken helped turn the D.S.A. into an electoral force. What will she do inside City Hall?

The President poses an existential question: Can everything be going according to the plan with Iran if there is no plan?

In arguments at the Supreme Court, a clear majority of the Justices seemed inclined to uphold the right.

In the U.S., capital punishment is resurgent. What lessons can we glean from Frances successful campaign to abolish it?

On social media, images of destruction in Iran are giving way to commentary from talking heads, dulling the reality of war.

The Pakistani military has wooed Donald Trump, and fallen out with its former Taliban allies, as it looks to wield more influence in the region.

How Carlos Eduardo Espina reaches millions of followers.

A series of uncannily timed bets on the price of oil and stocks deserves a proper investigation. Its far from clear that theyll get one.

At the Men of War Crucible, you bear crawl through rivers. At Warrior Week, you dig your own grave. At the Squire Program, your teen-ager can take part, too.

After college, I joined an odd little utopia of movie nerds working out of an office on lower Broadway. Then the sustainability of the setup started to seem questionable.

Disagreements about Gaza and Zionism have divided congregations.

A former C.I.A. officer says that he recruited scientists as part of the United States effort to disrupt Irans nuclear program.

As Iran imposes a chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz, squeezing the global economy, Trump faces a crisis that echoes one of historys most revealing strategic failures.

The present mess has roots in two entangled, defining White House projects: DOGE and the mind-bending expansion of ICE.

As wealthy owners threaten to relocate their franchises to secure stadium subsidies, a new bill aims to give cities a fairer chance at keeping them at home.

ICEBlock was meant to be an early-warning system to help people avoid immigration enforcementthe Trump Administration claims that it endangered the agents of its mass deportation campaign.

The actor, who stars in the new Broadway production Giant, about Dahls fraught legacy, discusses whether we can separate the art from the artist.

And the war in Iran is helping him do it.

The trial of supposed Antifa members after a shooting at an ICE facility is part of a disturbing strategy.

The Iranian regime has shut down the Strait of Hormuz, destabilizing global markets and leaving the U.S. with no good options.

The country is in survival mode, and effectively fighting back by shutting down the Strait of Hormuz and blocking the transport of much of the worlds oil supply.

Americas Nordic nation gathers to honor its queen.

A journalist who was wrongfully detained for five hundred and forty-four days never got to say goodbye to Tehran. Now hes fielding messages about chaos and destruction in the home he left behind.

The networks experiment in style was embarrassing, but it may tell us more about the state of podcasting than it does about legacy media.

A conflict that was supposed to be brief has sent oil prices soaring and raised the risk of a worldwide recession.

Trumps campaign to topple foreign adversaries encounters a battered but defiant regime.

The pop star brings motherhood and middle age to the dance floor.

Jill Lepore writes about The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist and A.I. constitutions, like that of Anthropics chatbot Claude.

For more than a hundred years, the citys most isolated borough has threatened to leave. After the election of Zohran Mamdani, some on the island think its time.

Life on a family farm.

After two decades of domination, he is ceding control, and becoming a different kind of star.

The U.S.-Israeli war on the Islamic Republic is Reza Pahlavis best chance to resume his familys reign in nearly fifty yearswill it pass him by?

The cruellest irony is that of a President who addresses the Iranian people in the language of liberation and then threatens freedom of the press back home.

The closing of the Bellevue shelter marks the end of an era. But what comes next?

A civilian in Tehran chronicles a country trapped between bombardment and repressiontoo terrorized to move, let alone start an uprising.