Universities are accustomed to acquiescing to the government, but Trump made Harvard an offer it couldn’t not refuse.

A legal scholar argues that the judiciary’s “passive-aggressive approach” to the Trump Administration is doomed to fail.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo has some of the largest deposits on Earth. Its President wants to sell them—and win a ...

As I.R.S. employees toil through tax season, their agency is being dismantled by the government it powers.

Last year, for my birthday, my wife gave me a copy of “ I Remember ,” an unusual memoir by the artist Joe Brainard. It’s a tidy little book, less than two hundred pages long, made entirely from short, ...

From the daily newsletter: the constitutional rights of embryos. Plus: evidence of starvation, dehydration, and neglect in ...

More precise names for the “Personal Life” section on Wikipedia. Tough-guy things I can do because I don’t wear a face mask. It’s becoming pretty clear that something is going on with the crossword ...

Music is no longer a matter for the few,” Kurt Weill declared in 1928, the year he wrote “The Threepenny Opera.” In Weill’s ...

The famous Venice Beach restaurant finally has an outpost in New York, but something is inevitably lost in the migration.

People who love Phish do so with a quasi-religious devotion. People who dislike Phish do so with an equal fervor.

Aimee Semple McPherson took to the radio to spread the Gospel, but her mysterious disappearance cast a shadow on her ...

The actor and musician discusses how to “let it do you,” why almost dying was a gift, and his new album, “Slow Magic.” ...