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The 45th president should be an easy target for political cartoonists, but they’ve struggled to come up with an image that sticks.

David Attenborough’s latest documentary gorgeously reveals the world’s oceans—and shows how badly humans are screwing them up.

How evangelicals, once culturally confident, became an anxious minority seeking political protection from the least traditionally religious president in living memory

The speech pathologist believes that helping kids switch seamlessly between dialects is a key to their success.

Acouple of months ago, I made a small tweak to my Twitter account that has changed my experience of the platform. It’s calmer. It’s slower. It’s less repetitive, and a little less filled with outrage. All of these improvements came about because I no

Alexander Chee, author, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel The Nautilus from Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea: Powered by salt water, full of masterpieces taken from shipwrecks and a collection of marine-life specimens from aro

For years he used fake identities to charm women out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Then his victims banded together to take him down.

At a White House stag dinner in February 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower shocked the new chief justice of the United States. Earl Warren was Eisenhower’s first appointment to the Supreme Court and had been sworn in just four months earlier. Only tw

Cory Booker on the 2020 presidential race, Star Trek, and why it’s Gen X’s turn to save the day

A much-anticipated young-adult debut taps into a tradition of speculative fiction rooted in African culture.

The first female speaker of the House has become the most effec­tive congressional leader of modern times—and, not coinciden­tally, the most vilified.

In his new book, Steven Pinker is curiously blind to the power and benefits of small-town values.

There’s a lot of losing in sports. Only one team can win at a time, and only one champion escapes the season without tears. But that doesn’t stop Americans from spending nearly $56 billion a year on sporting events, while dropping many billions more

Chaz is a free spirit. Iris is a good girl looking for love. Dylan is a foodie who isn’t sure how he feels about kids. Luke likes long walks—really long walks. All of them are ready for a long-term relationship. In fact, they’d like to move in right

Dystopia starts with 23.6 inches of toilet paper. That’s how much the dispensers at the entrance of the public restrooms at Beijing’s Temple of Heaven dole out in a program involving facial-recognition scanners—part of the president’s “Toilet Revolut

In a world that is growing more divided and atomized, it may be guilt—not empathy—that can bring people together.

Laura Smith looks to the haunting story of a missing child novelist to answer her own questions about balancing creativity and freedom with love and stability.

In the January/February issue, Barbara Bradley Hagerty wrote about Benjamine Spencer, a convict trying to prove his innocence without DNA evidence. I spent 12 years at the H. H. Coffield Unit with Spencer, and I’ll never forget the first time I saw h