To me, the best first sentence of any piece of journalism is the one in Joan Didion’s 1987 book, Miami, which begins like this: “Havana vanities come to dust in Miami.” I love that sentence and that ...

The tech billionaire Hemant Taneja admits that AI is a bubble. In fact, he welcomes it: “Bubbles are good,” Taneja, the CEO of General Catalyst, a venture-capital firm, told me in an email. If AI ...

As he tells the story, atheism became untenable not primarily through an argument, but because of its inability to explain how his future wife had changed him. “My life was filled with love,” he ...

A year ago yesterday, President Trump turned the White House lawn into a Tesla showroom to try to boost the slumping sales of his then-pal Elon Musk’s electric-car company. A few months ago, Trump ...

More important, though, the switch represents the latest example of the Republican Party eating its own. Politically, Kiley’s decision is something of a Hail Mary pass. The new House maps that ...

Members of Congress are using the kind of anti-Muslim rhetoric that was common then—this time with a president who has encouraged it.

Throughout most of America’s history, gambling was heavily regulated and generally discouraged. In 1631, Puritans banned games of chance in Plymouth Colony “under pain of punishment.” In 1794, a ...

Three days after President Trump announced his “Complete and Total Endorsement” of the Louisiana congressional candidate Blake Miguez, the Republican contender posted a video from outside the West ...

He has now made one of the most consequential decisions of his presidency: launching a war against Iran. The conflict, which ...

Go looking for wind farms in Spain, and you might quickly end up in Castilla–La Mancha, a region southeast of Madrid. This is the place where Don Quixote, Miquel de Cervantes’s delusional Man of La ...

Jinqiao Yang and Meng Wang of Team People’s Republic of China celebrate victory in the wheelchair-curling mixed-doubles gold-medal match against Team Republic of Korea on day five of the 2026 Winter ...

This article contains spoilers for the films Sirāt, Hamnet, Train Dreams, The Voice of Hind Rajab, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, Frankenstein, and One Battle After Another. For months, I could not stop ...