Death Has Two Timelines
Why promises like former President Jimmy Carter’s, to stay alive to vote one last time, have such appeal
Why promises like former President Jimmy Carter’s, to stay alive to vote one last time, have such appeal
The 2015 Paris Agreement was a landmark, but countries need to raise their ambition again to complete the transition away from fossil fuels.
The U.K. enjoys a bipartisan consensus on phasing out tobacco use. But some see it as a new front in a culture war against the nanny state.
Thirty years after the genocide in Rwanda, survivors and perpetrators live side by side.
The movement that fueled January 6 is revving up again.
How a changing media environment, worsened by intentional attempts to deceive people, hampers the response to natural catastrophes
On the whole, Democrats are going electric and Republicans are not. Partisanship only partly explains the difference.
The mass-rape trial in France exposes a case that’s both wholly unprecedented and dully familiar.
In Texas and elsewhere, new laws and policies have encouraged neighbors to report neighbors to the government.
Do you suffer from spiritual fatigue, uncontrollable moods, or compulsive idiocy?
Kris Kristofferson’s songs couched intimate moments in cosmic terms, pushing country in an existentialist direction.
Long a fearless critic of Israel, Zoya Cherkassky-Nnadi has made wrenching portraits of her nation’s suffering since October 7.
Many of America’s corporate executives have had enough of the remote-work experiment.
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
The Joker sequel has nothing interesting to say about the challenge of fame.
The singer-guitarist MJ Lenderman has been hailed as his genre’s next big thing—probably because he’s offering more of the same.
So is meditation. And push-ups. And breathing.
New data on the end times
Ever feel like your life is determined by powerful forces beyond your reach? HBO has a show for that.
Craig Unger’s career was nearly destroyed when he investigated a possible election conspiracy. Three decades later, he says he’s got the goods.