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

For centuries, eggnog has been a part of America’s Christmas festivities. George Washington was rumored to have his own ...

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

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

The president has commuted the sentences of 37 men on federal death row to life without parole, a historic move.

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 ...

After a multiyear investigation, the House Ethics Committee reported today that former Representative Matt Gaetz paid “tens ...

America’s politicians have an age problem, and the issue seems especially acute among congressional Democrats. The prevalence ...

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

The only thing we know for sure is that these conversations will be worth having. They might even be tough, difficult, or ...

A returning president who expects to govern without constraints leaves his opponents hoping to benefit from the blowback.

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 ...