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 ...

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 ...

More precise names for the “Personal Life” section on Wikipedia. Tough-guy things I can do because I don’t wear a face mask.

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

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

Jason Robert Brown débuted “The Last Five Years,” his two-character musical autopsy of a marriage, in 2001, when Nick Jonas was a child actor. Now Jonas returns to the stage, a conquering pop ...

The Talking Heads front man brought his acrylic markers to the Pace gallery recently to make some art—dancing ovals, a ...

The underground-comic artist visits the Whitney with his biographer, Dan Nadel, and considers some old friends: his own ...

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

In the first two years after the Supreme Court eliminated the constitutional right to abortion, the number of abortions ...