In most states, the highest-paid public employee is a football coach. Lately, more and more of them are getting money to go ...

The narrator is out walking the family’s dog when a man suddenly appears in her path. She realizes, with dread, that it’s a person who’s been stalking her. After initially becoming fixated on her, he ...

The shortest magazine pitch of Nick Paumgarten’s life actually took place in an elevator, which the writer was sharing with an elevator-phobic editor, and consisted of a single word: “Elevators!” The ...

The crowd inside had been lined up for hours to hear from Abigail Spanberger, the former congresswoman running for governor, and Pete Buttigieg, her star surrogate for the night. But the Science Guy, ...

The President’s goals were clear on the first day of his term, when he issued an executive order overruling the Fourteenth Amendment’s birthright-citizenship clause.

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Razing the East Wing? Breaking Congress? An unscientific survey of the President's most disruptive, significant, and truly ...

The story of Eric Rudolph, the Atlanta Olympics bomber, offers lessons about the persistence of violent extremism, and how to ...

It does not feel like a place a human being should be inside. In fact, they try to limit the amount that people go into them.

The playwright Samuel D. Hunter tailors a family drama to the actress’s specific gifts; at Powerhouse: International, the ...

The first feature by the Portuguese filmmaker Marta Mateus, featuring nonprofessional actors in natural settings, explores ...

“Big Kiss, Bye Bye” is a portrait of frustrated intimacy—and the ungovernable force of a woman’s mind.