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 ...

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 ...

More precise names for the “Personal Life” section on Wikipedia. Tough-guy things I can do because I don’t wear a face mask. It’s becoming pretty clear that something is going on with the crossword ...

Music is no longer a matter for the few,” Kurt Weill declared in 1928, the year he wrote “The Threepenny Opera.” In Weill’s ...

The famous Venice Beach restaurant finally has an outpost in New York, but something is inevitably lost in the migration.

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

Across the country, the Trump Administration’s assault on public institutions and its cuts to government funding are forcing ...

The view from northern Europe, which, until very recently, had long seen the United States as a land of hope.

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