The Democratic Republic of the Congo has some of the largest deposits on Earth. Its President wants to sell them—and win a war. By defying the Justices’ ruling on a man mistakenly sent to El Salvador, ...

Last year, for my birthday, my wife gave me a copy of “ I Remember ,” an unusual memoir by the artist Joe Brainard. It’s a tidy little book, less than two hundred pages long, made entirely from short, ...

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 ...

From the daily newsletter: the constitutional rights of embryos. Plus: evidence of starvation, dehydration, and neglect in ...

By defying the Justices’ ruling on a man mistakenly sent to El Salvador, the Administration has shown that it is not owed the ...

Jason Robert Brown débuted “The Last Five Years,” his two-character musical autopsy of a marriage, in 2001, when Nick Jonas was a child actor. Now Jonas returns to the stage, a conquering pop ...

The Talking Heads front man brought his acrylic markers to the Pace gallery recently to make some art—dancing ovals, a ...

The underground-comic artist visits the Whitney with his biographer, Dan Nadel, and considers some old friends: his own ...

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

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

Aimee Semple McPherson took to the radio to spread the Gospel, but her mysterious disappearance cast a shadow on her ...

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