In the 1960s, a British researcher launched one of the largest ever studies of people who believed they could see the future.

The United Kingdom has given a range of financial crimes a sheen of respectability.

On loving and loathing some of America’s most common public spaces

His vision of a tech-optimized future inspired a generation. But his true talent was for burnishing his own image.

“Knocking Myself Up” defies the conventional wisdom that pregnancy and parenthood are exhausting, expensive, and full of drudgery.

Bari Weiss and other self-anointed defenders of free speech used the author’s stabbing to accuse the left of rhetorical excess—and ignored the very relevant scourge of book-banning by the American right.

Rushdie’s vision of desi identity, unrestrained by colonialism and above the fray of sectarian cant, should inspire us as he recovers from his wounds.

Salman Rushdie has spent decades campaigning for free speech. The attempt on his life came amid a crack down on freedom of expression around the world.

CJ Hauser’s essay on an ill-fated love went viral. But there’s more than one way to see the story.

Walter Russell Mead’s new book shows the United States’ relationship with Israel has always been self-involved and opportunistic.

Daisy Pitkin’s memoir “On the Line” documents acts of heroism and solidarity, as well as the grueling personal toll of a life in organizing.

“Sharp Stick” has all the hallmarks of a Dunham production. That’s the problem.

Over six episodes, “The Rehearsal” becomes a show not about helping people but about its creator’s anxieties and compulsions.

53 million Americans are caregivers to a family member. How can an experience so common so often remain in the shadows?

In his new thriller, race, ambition, and legacy intersect to force a family to lean into danger.

Ada Calhoun set out to complete her father’s abandoned biography of the poet. She ended up with a reflection on living with art.

A new Jane Austen adaptation dares to ask: What if “Persuasion” took place not just in the early nineteenth century but at wine o’clock?

“The Great Experiment” flatters liberal readers that by expressing their distaste for cancel culture, they have become diverse democracy’s most gallant defenders. 

Craig McNamara’s family did not talk about the Vietnam war. He spent his life asking questions about it.

A survey of the world’s worst nuclear disasters highlights the catastrophic consequences of technical hubris.