
The Box-Office Smash That Left Me Cold
The new Minecraft movie ignores what makes the video game so special.
The new Minecraft movie ignores what makes the video game so special.
“Il Duce slumped, first falling to his knees, then leaning sideways against the wall.”
One of the worst maritime disasters in European history took place two decades ago. It remains very much in the public eye. On a stormy night on the Baltic Sea, more than 850 people lost their lives when a luxurious ferry sank below the waves. From a mass of material, including official and unofficial reports and survivor testimony, our correspondent has distilled an account of the Estonia’s last moments—part of his continuing coverage for the magazine of anarchy on the high seas.
MAGA conservatives love Viktor Orbán. But he’s left his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished.
Prenatal testing is changing who gets born and who doesn’t. This is just the beginning.
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
At its best, The Teacher captures the intimate horrors of life under harrowing circumstances.
A century ago, a German sociologist explained precisely how the president thinks about the world.
He used the constitution to shatter the constitution.
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
Women are now more likely to marry a less-educated man than men are to marry a less-educated woman.
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The older you are, and the more likely you are to get laid off, the more important it is to have liquid savings.
Trump’s abrupt pivot from his planned global trade war was touted by allies as grand strategy. The president’s own words suggested otherwise.
You can’t just undo a global economic crisis.
Why do Republicans keep claiming he isn’t?
A stock-market swoon, or even a recession, might not frighten him, but the prospect of a 2008-style meltdown apparently still does.
That simple aspiration propelled Trump into office, but it is now threatened by his tariffs.
Inside Trump’s decision to kill the MAGA star’s Cabinet nomination
The Grand National horse race in Liverpool, a Nepali New Year festival in Kathmandu, a stranded parachutist in France, an anti–Elon Musk event in London, and much more