After a multiyear investigation, the House Ethics Committee reported today that former Representative Matt Gaetz paid “tens ...

This new image from the James Webb Space Telescope features the young star cluster NGC 602, surrounded by the varied clouds ...

For centuries, eggnog has been a part of America’s Christmas festivities. George Washington was rumored to have his own ...

The president has commuted the sentences of 37 men on federal death row to life without parole, a historic move.

A Doll’s House also underscores how easy it is to get trapped playing a part, particularly one that’s lavishly rewarded.

The state raised the minimum wage for fast-food workers—and employment kept rising. So why has the law been proclaimed a ...

The only thing we know for sure is that these conversations will be worth having. They might even be tough, difficult, or ...

IT WAS in the clove of seasons, summer was dead but autumn had not yet been born, that the ibis lit in the bleeding tree. The ...

America’s politicians have an age problem, and the issue seems especially acute among congressional Democrats. The prevalence ...

The comedian Jamie Loftus’s previous podcasts have ranged wildly in subject matter—Mensa meetings, Floridian spiritualists, the comic-strip character Cathy—but benefited equally from her attention to ...

Elizabeth Harris covers books and publishing for The New York Times and is the author of the forthcoming novel How to Sleep at Night.

My family includes a farmer and a fiber artist in rural Kentucky, who rarely miss a Sunday service at their local Baptist ...