Why So Many People Are Going “No Contact” with Their Parents

Will Pope Leo XIV follow the progressive example of his predecessor or chart a more moderate course? His work in Chicago and Peru may shed light on his approach.

On a mild December day in 1984, a man named Bernie Goetz shot four Black teen-agers on a subway. The incident galvanized the city. Are we still living in its wake?

The congresswoman split with the President over the Epstein files, then she quit. Where will she go from here?

Can undocumented parents elude ICE capture for one more year, until their youngest turns eighteen?

The U.S., once Denmark’s closest ally, is threatening to steal Greenland and attacking the country’s wind-power industry. Is this a permanent breakup?

One neighborhood in New York has elected so many democratic socialists—including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Zohran Mamdani—that people have started calling it “the People’s Republic.”

In “The Score,” the philosopher C. Thi Nguyen argues that play is the meaning of life.

In the Great Smoky Mountains, an auxiliary team of élite outdoorsmen answers the call when park-goers’ hikes, climbs, and rafting adventures go wrong.

The idea is legally vital, but ultimately unsatisfying. Is there another way forward?

As Secretary of State, the President’s onetime foe now offers him lavish displays of public praise—and will execute his agenda in Venezuela and around the globe.

How the best-selling author of “People We Meet on Vacation” channelled her love of rom-coms—and her religious upbringing—into a new kind of romance novel.

LaMonica McIver went to tour an immigration jail in her New Jersey district. Now she faces seventeen years in prison.