“If I Had Legs I’d Kick You,” a nerve-shredding dark comedy from the director and screenwriter Mary Bronstein, is the latest and surely most exhaustive iteration of an idea that has gained increasing ...

Emily Nussbaum A staff writer covering television. The evening I first met Keri Russell, we had a fun time pounding Sancerres, talking about her rise to stardom, which began when, at fifteen, on a ...

The author of “Because of Winn-Dixie” on what fantastical tales have to offer us—especially in dark times.

Kamala Harris almost won in 2024. So why does her new book feel like another defeat?

An online joke reflects a sincere fear about how A.I. automation will upend the labor market and create a new norm of inequality.

Robe Imbriano’s documentary short uses music and animation to illustrate the grave injustices taking place at Houston’s notorious jail and in the cash-bail system at large.

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How an Israeli strike on Qatar, Hamas’ shifting calculus, and Donald Trump’s impatience could change the trajectory of the two-year war.

“It was just dumb as hell,” the photographer Jeremiah M. Murphy tells me. “I have rules, and I broke one of my rules.” Murph, ...

It’s like we can’t control ourself.” In the past decade, YoungBoy has released an astonishing amount of music: more than three dozen full-length releases, including eight in 2022 alone. Along the way, ...

It’s hard to find things that Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders agree on, but one point of consensus is that pharmaceutical companies have long been ripping off Americans by charging extortionate prices ...

A change in leadership at the network has been seen as part of an effort to appease Donald Trump. But there may be other motivations.