“The Palestine Laboratory” outlines how Israel sells its “battle-tested,” “field-proven” weapons and spyware to practically anyone, no matter how malevolent.

“Regime Change” fits into a long tradition of magical thinking, from Anton Mesmer to Theodore Roosevelt and beyond.

It’s a portrayal so undignified that I almost expected ABBA’s “Waterloo” to play over the credits.

Kristoffer Borgli’s surreal comedy probes the benefits and horrors of instant fame.

How corporations wrested creative control from writers and editors—to produce less interesting books.

The new FX show captures fear and confinement better than any on-the-nose pandemic drama.

The Chicago school ruled supreme over economics—until recently.

The senator has always wrestled with his conscience—and compromise.

“The Holdovers” is a brilliant study of an all-boys school and the troubled men it produces.

Workers once confronted industrialization by taking a hammer to the new machines.

Sofia Coppola’s Elvis is an insecure jock, a rudderless pretty boy with more charisma than talent.

Julian Fellowes’s ode to nineteenth-century wealth has decided it has a story to tell about organized labor.

The Florida governor was asked about whether his shoes have hidden heels. He didn’t handle it well.

“The Young Man” is more than the story of an affair. It’s an intense re-examination of the past.

His polemic “The Identity Trap” presents very little evidence of identity politics run amok.

Climate change made Lydia Davis rethink our relationships to each other, close and distant.

How the gun became a cultural icon—and unmade America

Its president ignored the warning signs about declining enrollment. Now WVU is deeply in debt, in thrall to market-worshipping consultants, and cutting a shocking number of programs and faculty.

Scorsese’s film is a benchmark in how popular culture understands the American West and the Indigenous experience.

The HBO docuseries follows recruits as they face hazing from their bosses, mistrust in the community, and a legacy of dispossession.