Russia’s President is profiting from rising oil prices, but he’s also facing a hard new reality: he’s no longer the lead ...

Despite their animosity toward Iran, America’s allies in the Middle East are worried that the region is headed for wider conflict.

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Memes such as “monitoring the situation” reflect a deluded belief that we can be more than just passive, confused bystanders to a spray of digital shrapnel.

A movie: “Hard Eight,” the first feature from the director and Oscar contender Paul Thomas Anderson, is an elegantly formalized gangster movie. A TV show: In the docuseries “Neighbors,” which covers ...

The Republican Clay Fuller and the Democrat Shawn Harris are headed for a runoff to fill Marjorie Taylor Greene’s House seat.

Sign up to receive our twice-weekly News & Politics newsletter. The New Yorker staff writer Jonathan Blitzer joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss Kristi Noem’s removal ...

The nation’s official motto, “In God we trust,” has appeared on coins since the Civil War. The Pledge of Allegiance promises ...

This thought occurred to me last August, as the director and playwright Mark Rosenblatt and I hightailed it from a restaurant ...

Josh Wardle, the creator of Wordle, has a new game that aims to introduce players to the joys and agonies of the cryptic crossword.

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Some people now have an A.I. bestie. Some have a husband. Some have three. Adrianne Brookins is, by her own account, an “old ...