The disgraced former Florida representative now faces the blunt reality of his own political irrelevance. T he normal rules ...

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

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.

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 ...

New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low ...

Even the camera seems to fear the grunting, shadowy demon in Nosferatu.

I’m typically quiet and mind my own business. But in recent weeks, I’ve been having conflicts with people over minor things.

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

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

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 ...

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