In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the lovelorn Ophelia famously drowns. The prince of Denmark has cruelly spurned her, her father has died,...

Even in the best of times, the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner is an awkward and ethically fraught affair. Journalists...

The beta-blocker propranolol has been a mainstay of American medicine since the 1960s, when it was regularly prescribed as a...

When word started to arrive earlier this month that Justin Bieber had put on a pretty weird performance for the...

The earliest photograph Peter Hujar printed for exhibition was a 1955 portrait of his beloved English teacher Daisy Aldan. “One...

Illustrations by Sophia Deng My husband, David, hates Valentine’s Day. He once called it “New Year’s Eve with nuclear weapons.”...

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A reasonable rule is that once you begin making an argument ad Hitlerum—comparing some malevolent politician to Hitler or some...

Vandals have done some senseless stuff on Bay Area Rapid Transit. They have removed the fire extinguishers from the station...

The day that Donald Trump swore his second oath of office, he signed an executive order demanding “accountability for the...

People like to say that American culture has a puritanical streak: one that entails, among other things, a certain haughty...

The year 2020 was a bad one for Cassie Phillips. Her husband had recently returned  from an overseas deployment, and...

At the end of Paul Thomas Anderson’s 2007 movie, There Will Be Blood, Daniel Day-Lewis’s oil-baron character, old now and...

Naoya Azuma / The Yomiuri Shimbun / ReutersWeeping cherry blossoms are in full bloom at a sightseeing spot in Higashi-yoshino...

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