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The Netflix series about a thirteen-year-old killer attempts to grapple with the crisis facing boys today—but its true sympathies lie with the baffled adults around them.
Sale, Caesar!
Workers share what life is like under Trump’s budget cuts, and why they’re speaking out.
Gawande, until recently a senior leader at U.S.A.I.D., explains the agency’s importance to America and to the world, and what its undoing by DOGE will bring.
The novelist talks about Annie Proulx’s 1997 story about two young men who fall in love. “I didn’t want to just read it. I wanted to absorb this story in a more lasting way.”
A trusted adviser.
The minds behind “You Me Bum Bum Train,” which has sparked a ticket frenzy, discuss re-creating real-life scenarios, crafting a show that gives people “epiphanies,” and why they ask participants to sign an N.D.A.
Whatever legal rationale the Trump Administration cooks up, deporting protesters for things they say is wildly un-American—and possibly unpopular, too.
Can librarians and guerrilla archivists save the country’s files from *DOGE*{: .small}?
Also: Cate Blanchett in “Black Bag”; Felix Mendelssohn’s overlooked sister, at the Morgan Library; uncovered songs by “Rent” ’s Jonathan Larson; and more.
“Tariff Man” is gonna tariff—and other lessons from the predictably unpredictable President’s return to power.
This historical docufiction, directed by Lou Ye, boldly dramatizes the outbreak of *COVID*{: .small} in China by way of its impact on a movie shoot.
“Maybe we should fight some of our international conflicts the old-fashioned way, like with a chess match, or a race to the moon?”
“I always compare tariffs to a boxing match,” the staff writer John Cassidy says. “The other guy punches you back, you punch, and who’s gonna stop it?”
Vladimir Putin views his country’s cultural sphere like any other sector: a subordinate dominion, which should submit to the state’s needs and interests. What’s been lost?
Subscribe to the belief that time is merely a construct, so who among us can ever really say “when” a new season of a television show will be available for viewing.
The Trump Administration has cut two thousand workers, making it harder for the service to fight wildfires and repair storm damage across the country.
Paul Mescal and Patsy Ferran star in a heavy-handed production of Tennessee Williams’s masterpiece, and a mismatched cast stumbles around Henrik Ibsen’s haunted classic.
A mind-boggling array of options defines nearly every aspect of our world today, including shopping, dating, and entertainment. Is such abundance making our lives better?
Her new album is a work of self-citation, rummaging around in Gaga’s own past for inspiration. It’s also, somehow, the freshest collection of songs she has released in years.
A legal scholar explains the unusual justification for the Columbia graduate’s arrest, and what it could augur for immigration enforcement in Trump’s second term.
In Steven Soderbergh’s latest caper, Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender prove that monogamy is no mission impossible.
The author of “Salvage the Bones” and “Sing, Unburied, Sing” discusses the rewards of reading laborious novels.
How Christianity blurred the line between celibacy and androgyny.
Now that Trump has installed election deniers throughout his Administration, he has been busy dismantling the guardrails protecting voting and voters.
“We’ll have to stop research now that the Neanderthals are back in charge.”
Owner Jeff Bezos wants to transform the Opinions section of the paper, where I worked for forty years. After the publisher killed my column disagreeing with that move—it appears here in full—I decided to quit.
Jeremy Beiler’s short film follows a mental-health volunteer’s unravelling after a caller gets under his skin.
Bruno Dumont’s action-fantasy satire is all the greater for its loving, quasi-documentary attention to ordinary life.
The new Arizona senator argues that Donald Trump’s agenda is largely popular but destined to fail.
And that the West has misunderstood Vladimir Putin.
Trump’s comments about purchasing the island sent shock waves through the Danish territory, and enlivened its independence movement.
“Your time machine works, Nikola Tesla! And what is the future like? Is your name associated only with your groundbreaking achievements?”
It’s so much fun spending hours gathering the ninety-seven things I’ll need for the day and then layering all of them on my body.
After centuries of foreign domination, the island stands at a crossroads, buffeted by geopolitical winds largely beyond its control.
A day in the life of a claims rep for America’s largest government program.
“Thanks, but I still have at least another month of seasonal depression to go.”
Yunchan Lim tackles Bach’s Goldberg Variations, and Seong-Jin Cho presents a Ravel marathon.
Good God Almighty, Holy, and Merciful, how do you get these tear-off produce bags to open?
Ed Zitron, an A.I. skeptic worried about “rot-com” in the tech industry, gives robot-fried chicken a try.
At its height, the political crackdown felt terrifying and all-encompassing. What can we learn from how the movement unfolded—and from how it came to an end?
“When devotion is self-betrayal, / the body knows.”
White snus pouches were designed to help Swedish women quit cigarettes. They’ve become a staple for American dudes.
Frankie Carattini has worked the door for Baz Luhrmann, Stella McCartney, and Anne Hathaway (and he once turned away Cuba Gooding, Jr.). Now he brings his “encyclopedia of faces” to bear at People’s, a new club downtown.
Delicious forms of innovation.
The Great Hunger was a modern event, shaped by the belief that the poor are the authors of their own misery and that the market must be obeyed at all costs.
With the reboot of the beloved sitcom in its third season, John Larroquette, its star, finds that the show’s Burbank set is as dingy as the real thing in downtown Manhattan.
There is only so much policy chaos that households, businesses, and financial markets can take.
When a kitschy bust of the King was swiped from the East Village restaurant where it had lived for thirty-seven years, the theft ignited a fight over the soul of downtown.
Homeownership, long a cherished American ideal, has become the subject of black comedies, midlife-crisis novels, and unintentionally dystopic reality TV.
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