Pat Sajak has announced his retirement from the game show. Before you mourn his loss, remember what he stood for.

A sociologist spoke with 50 gun sellers about 2020’s dramatic uptick in firearms sales and its effects.

Denée Benton called out the governor of her home state while presenting an award at the Tonys.

No other show better understands the slippage between who we are in private and who we are in public.

“Arrangements in Blue” and “A Life of One’s Own” work through the puzzles of single life through art and music.

Tina Satter’s film “Reality” on HBO captures the cruelty of the surveillance state.

Centuries of history fed into Putin’s disastrous decision to go to war.

What do politicos turned authors know that we don’t?

Just not in the way you might think.

Amanda Gorman’s “The Hill We Climb” is restricted after just one parent complained about it.

Amis trusted you to keep pace with his wit, his bawdiness, his erudition. His work seems to say: You and me—we get it.

Danish design was a product of postwar social democracy.

The show’s final episodes reject the cynicism and exhaustion of our moment.

The battle for power and influence in the nation’s capital is more shameless, desperate, and embarrassing than ever.

New CEO shift going well *thumbs up*

Paul Schrader’s portrait of an ex–white supremacist gang member is an unlikely feat of optimism.

His name is Joe Flood, and he was glad to have delivered the truth about what people in Washington, D.C., think of the white supremacist group.

Jess Row’s novel explores the aftermath of a young activist’s death.

Chicago economists had free rein in Chile. The country is still recovering.

Stories from the last strike can’t explain the current action. Nor should they necessarily give us comfort.