Although the cases differ significantly, the new investigation is sure to muddy the waters politically as former President Donald J. Trump cries persecution over his...
Author: Seth Stottlemyer
Forecasters say the onslaught of storms is expected to last at least another week. Evacuation orders for thousands of people across California were lifted on...
“I love Company!” was not a sentence I expected to hear this semester. Well, not a sentence I expected to hear from an undergraduate during...
New College of Florida has a reputation for being the most progressive public college in the state. X González — a survivor of the Parkland...
Jair Bolsonaro’s supporters showed that anti-democratic revolutions can be contagious too. We memorize its opening sentences in school, throw quotes from it into speeches, and...
Bret Stephens: Gail, remember “We Need To Talk About Kevin,” the unforgettable Lionel Shriver novel about a woman whose son murders his classmates? Maybe someone...
It is hard to believe it has been two years since we were shocked and sickened by the riot and insurrection at the U.S. Capitol....
For the heroism of its people, and for standing up to a bully. In normal times, picking The Economist’s country of the year is hard....
Volunteers have now tracked down at least one photo for every one of the more than 58,000 U.S. military service members who died in the...
If you’re looking for a way to get fit, there is no shortage of opinions about clever regimens to try. There are HIIT workouts, barre...
President Biden, who has said he intends to run for re-election, appeared in Kentucky alongside the Senate’s top Republican as he tried to send a...
I never know how to think about New Year’s resolutions or whether to make them. On one hand, I am drawn to the idea of...
Watching the GOP Clown Derby unfold it looks like Donald Trump's endorsement of Kevin McCarthy for Speaker of the House of Representatives is helping him...
The world’s ninth-largest economy did a lot better than expected. The past year has been bruising for Russia’s economy. Foreign investors fled en masse, many...
True story: When I won the Nobel Prize in 2008, Princeton quickly set up a special event on campus and reserved a parking space for...
Where The Atlantic’s science, technology, and health reporters found wonder in a sometimes-sobering year. The writers on The Atlantic’s Science, Technology, and Health desks have...
The release of former President Donald J. Trump’s private tax documents by the House Ways and Means Committee shows heavy losses from his own ventures...
Her paper, entitled 'Five Strategies to Support U.S. Democracy' and published on the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace website, details when and how things have...
Jury finds Trump family business unlawfully paid top executives in cars, apartments and other off-the-books perks. Former President Donald Trump’s family business was convicted Tuesday...
The goal is to promote discerning digital content consumption with the overarching idea that as a nation we can have a robust disagreement on policies...
A new chatbot from OpenAI is inspiring awe, fear, stunts and attempts to circumvent its guardrails. Like most nerds who read science fiction, I’ve spent...
On the ground in the Georgia congresswoman’s alternate universe. She was very late. A man named Barry was compelled to lead the room in a...
Congress passed measure despite misgivings about interfering in labor talks. WASHINGTON—President Biden on Friday signed legislation to prevent a nationwide strike by railroad workers, the...
Republicans are unlikely to agree to any changes to immigration rules without steps to bolster border security. WASHINGTON—With weeks left until they lose control of...
The 61-to-36 vote sends the legislation back to the House, which is expected to approve it and send it to President Biden. WASHINGTON — The...
Political tensions will hamper dialogue, but could their rivalry have benefits? Consensus is rare in climate negotiations, but most parties agree on one point. China...
WASHINGTON—House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) said that House lawmakers will take up legislation on Wednesday to stop a nationwide strike by railroad workers, saying...
Tom Stoppard’s wrenching drama “Leopoldstadt,” which I recently saw on Broadway, begins in 1899 at a Christmas party in the Vienna apartment of Hermann Merz,...
I am grateful for so many things this Thanksgiving. I am grateful for my big loving family. I am grateful for my incredibly hard-working, successful...
Kyiv’s restaurants, shops and nightclubs keep going in the face of Russian attacks. Saturday night in Kyiv, and the streets are dark and snowy. After...
If you grew up in the northern United States, it’s likely you associate pumpkin pie with Thanksgiving. But travel south of the Mason-Dixon Line, and...
The assailant was also found dead at the store, in Chesapeake, Va., according to the police. Six people were shot and killed inside a Walmart...
Before the midterm elections, I published a post entitled 'A Long and Winding Path to a Renewed American Future'. In it I touched on the...
The popular California nature destination, along with Rocky Mountain, Arches and Acadia national parks, has used reservations to battle overcrowding. Yosemite National Park won’t use...
Maria Schrader directs this adaptation of the book about reporters’ efforts to document sexual harassment by Harvey Weinstein. In February 2020, a New York jury...
He applauds himself and promises more of the same. But voters want something new. Donald Trump hates not being the center of attention. So on...
NASA’s quest to return humans to the moon has finally gotten off the ground. After being stymied by repairs and hurricanes, the Artemis 1 mission...
Six essential travel books The travel writer cuts a familiar figure: a bookish wanderer, footloose with notepad and pen, scrambles up mountains and across cities...
Adrienne Rich, or at least the version of her that people typically remember, was never resigned to the status quo. By the time of her...
Burlington, Vt., is a bike-friendly city. There are multiple bike stores, a network of bright green bike lanes on many major streets and a waterfront...
Did Donald Trump lose in the midterms? Plenty of people declared that he did, from liberal pundits to the Murdoch newspapers — the latter delivering...
Mr. Maloney said that he and other New York Democrats were unable to overcome suburban fears of crime. He also had some harsh words for...
His group had 32 No. 1 country singles, and his guitar and fiddle playing helped extend its reach to a generation raised on rock ’n’...
What should have been a red wave, was a red ripple. What was set up to be a monumental victory for the Trump Republican Party,...
A small study demonstrated that deep brain stimulation, used for people with Parkinson’s disease, can limit an urge to overeat. What if an uncontrollable urge...
When Elon Musk said last week that Twitter has experienced a “massive drop in revenue” under his recent tutelage, he blamed the decline on “activist groups pressuring...
Control of the Senate remains too close to call, as a Republican red wave looked more like a ripple. Democrats held their own despite President...
Russia’s defense minister announced on television Wednesday that he was ordering the retreat of Moscow’s forces from the strategically important southern city of Kherson, in...
Would you take a sledgehammer to the David? A flamethrower to the Mona Lisa? A shredder to the latest Banksy? (Actually, scratch that last one.)...
With no billboards or gas stations, a fall drive along this winding, verdant All-American Road, is a head-clearing journey, offering encounters with history, nature, music...
As we all head to the polls over the coming days to cast our vote in the midterm elections, we would be better served...
American couples didn’t let pandemic isolation go to waste. When the pandemic began, I didn’t place any bets on what the future would hold. But...
Beset by bloating and egomania, big tech would benefit from active boards and investors. In 1997, in his first letter to shareholders, Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s...
Even by the degraded standards of 2022, it has been shocking to watch Republican politicians and conservative media personalities respond to the brutal attack on...
Post-Donald Trump’s presidency, the party isn’t post-Trump at all. “If you leave the press area, you will be physically removed,” your correspondent is admonished by...
Hurricane Ian is the latest devastating hurricane to confirm that coastal areas are failing to keep rebuilt or new development out of highly vulnerable areas....
“Down and Out in Paradise,” by Charles Leerhsen, is an unvarnished account of a turbulent life. Anthony Bourdain would have hated that autocorrect turns his...
We have less than 4 weeks to go till the midterm elections and we're already tired of seeing politicians' faces on television every minute of...
No matter what your feelings might be about the role of monarchy and crown in the modern world, the passing of Queen Elizabeth is a...
Ukraine’s friends should reinforce its success by sending more and better weapons. One of the many excuses Vladimir Putin has given for invading the country...
Fifteen years ago, Kyle Isacksen and his wife, Katy Chandler, lived in what most people in their home city of Reno, Nevada, would think...
We are not rocks unto ourselves. Independence can be a virtue. Self reliance, a noble trait to exhibit. But hyper-individuality and the go-it-alone mentality will...
Ron DeSantis' Martha's Vineyard stunt cruelly uses migrants as human pawns, helping no one Brace yourselves, I’m about to believe two things at once. First,...
For the moderate majority of us, it is in our state and national interest to support reasonable centrists this fall. Vote for candidates who support...
Chia seeds are back (again) — and nutritionists and doctors say there are good reasons for it. Chia seeds are making a comeback — again....
The president said something frightening and true. Joe Biden’s “Soul of the Nation” address got at a cold and disquieting truth: The MAGA movement cannot...
Governments bet billions on burning timber for green power. The Times went deep into one of the continent’s oldest woodlands to track the hidden cost....
Why do we have public schools? To make young people into educated, productive adults, of course. But public schools are also for making Americans. Thus,...
Palin loses in special election for U.S. House seat Did Alaska's decision to use the ranked choice election system show us the way we can...
New boosters that target Omicron may be our most important COVID vaccines since 2020—but the U.S. may be setting up the new shots to fail....
By Anya Kamenetz Ms. Kamenetz is a longtime education reporter and the author of “The Stolen Year: How Covid Changed Children’s Lives, and Where We...
Graham's threat to America on Fox News (hold him accountable and there will be blood in the streets)...ok, Lindsey the Liar. The Confederacy-Inclined, Conspiracy-Driven, Culture-War,...
KYIV, Ukraine—United Nations atomic-energy inspectors are heading to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant amid fears that fighting in the area has damaged power lines and caused fires...
Nothing exists in a vacuum. The latest development of the day is not separate from the larger context in which it occurred. That being said,...
That person who looks just like you is not your twin, but if scientists compared your genomes, they might find a lot in common. Charlie...
First Class Fruit Loop, Laura Loomer can’t even admit she lost in a primary election to a fellow Republican. Holy Cow lady. That’s how infected...
Researchers said the results offered promise to the millions of Americans with alcohol use disorder. A small study on the therapeutic effects of using psychedelics...
A disaster on the scale of Chernobyl is unlikely—but radioactive emissions are a possibility Few countries understand the dangers of a nuclear accident as keenly as...
At a Louisiana hospital, concerns about complying with new abortion bans in post-Roe America left a pregnant woman with a devastating diagnosis, but not an...
We’re adamant about politics and flexible about virtue. Three things are true at once. First, the United States is the most Christian advanced democracy in...
In 2022, the biggest-budget shows on the small screen engage in what’s termed “world building.” These sci-fi and fantasy programs are escapist entertainment, but only...
On July 17th the Herald Tribune published my letter in which I laid out a baseline of conduct and behavior through which all political candidates...
Why Ukraine’s army should not rush to recapture the whole province In the years to come, nato armed forces will queue at the door of Ukraine’s general staff...
The other morning I was at a local park a few miles from our house, standing outside my truck about to leave. The park has...
Emboldened by fever dreams of persecution, Republicans want nothing more than to anoint a strong man to punish their enemies. If you’re worried about America...
WASHINGTON—FBI agents searched former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Fla., on Monday, which people familiar with the matter said was part of an...
The FBI search and seizure of numerous boxes of Presidential papers (and by most accounts top secret documents) at Mara Lago today should come as...
The two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize was a best-selling author who brought to life the grand sweep of time and place. David McCullough was...
Romance novels celebrate female pleasure and aspiration. One of my most enduring school memories is of an austere English teacher urging us—a class of two dozen...
As a flight attendant who has been on the job for 20 years, it’s easy to take my travel insights for granted — the little...
WASHINGTON — For decades, as prescription drug costs have soared, Democrats have battled with the pharmaceutical industry in pursuit of an elusive goal: legislation that...
It might be nice one day to wake up and feel serene—even hopeful—about the state of American politics. To know that all of those people...
We are all, by now, familiar with the most appalling, “boy did that age poorly” anonymous quote in the history of American politics, published by...
From the Editor: Overreaching and Out of Step, the Far-Right’s MAGA Dreams A Bridge Too Far For Most
Today's radical, right-wing MAGA Republican Party is the quintessential picture of the dog that caught the car. Except it's not just a car, it's...
Summer has many charms — the sun lingers late, fireflies abound and vegetables and fruit taste so good, they don’t take much effort to turn...
On June 7, I won the Democratic Party primary in New Jersey’s Seventh Congressional District, on my way to what I hope will be my...
A raging pandemic, gun violence, climate change — as an educational psychologist, I’ve seen firsthand how the troubling events of today are taking a toll...
The Democratic Party is behaving recklessly and unpatriotically. So far, Democrats have spent tens of millions to help Trumpist candidates in Republican primaries. In Illinois...
There has been a burst of stories in recent weeks describing devastating internal conflicts within progressive organizations, the most conspicuous of which was Ryan Grim’s...