Dune: Prophecy’ allows its female leads to play both hero and villain.

A new kind of repression is gripping Venezuela, and its logic is menacingly opaque.

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

I asked my colleague Russell Berman, who covers Congress, to help me make sense of the chaotic past few days. We talked about ...

The world’s richest man has become a new kind of oligarch.

The period of left-wing illiberalism that began about a decade ago seems to have drawn to a close. The final cause of death ...

The dreaded “winter wave” looks different this year.

Why does ChatGPT refuse to say the name Jonathan Zittrain? Anytime the bot should write those words, it simply shuts down ...

This week, the world’s richest person solidified his influence over American politics.

Settlers who attack Palestinians surely suspect as much. And the price that Palestinians in the West Bank pay for the ...

To what degree the ability to defer gratification is down to nature or conditioned by nurture is unclear, but what we do know ...