The sci-fi series was hailed as a dark, timely satire of office life—but its return is bogged down by abstract ethical ...

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Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power, and influence that literally threatens our entire ...

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The world’s richest man has become fixated on child sexual exploitation in deindustrialized English towns—much of which took ...

The author surveys school book reports and some fan mail, from M. Night Shyamalan, in her archives, which she recently sold ...

Gottfried Leibniz made conceptual advances that lie behind our digital world. Yet for centuries he was mocked for a misstep.

The New Yorker has been on a scorching run in the category, nominated in six of the past nine years (and landing 15 doc short nods in its brief history of competing; this is Netflix-level influence).

A scientist tried to discredit the theory that ultra-processed foods are killing us. Instead, he overturned his own ...

From the daily newsletter: the conservative attack on secular schools. Plus: Jane Mayer on Pete Hegseth; urban fires in a ...

The reportage that thrived in the late twenty-tens cannot break through on today’s volatile Internet, where information is ...

As I watched the time-capsule debate, staffers for the Architect of the Capitol were at work on the West Front, building the seating platforms for Donald Trump’s Inauguration next month. “It’s ...