The evisceration of U.S.A.I.D. isn’t a policy fight—it’s an execution designed to strike fear in our own government.

Senator Brian Schatz on how the Party should be responding to Donald Trump’s breakneck assault on the government.

This year’s edition of the festival offers inventive visions, in fiction and nonfiction, of passionate lives amid difficult ...

Plus: the families in Chicago preparing to be separated; and drinks with a recently imprisoned environmentalist.

Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s gutting of U.S.A.I.D. will weaken Washington’s reach, but the U.S. was already losing the fight ...

In Chicago, families are preparing for the possibility of being separated by deportations.

Also: A starry revival of Ibsen’s “Ghosts,” the guitar god Jack White, the great Ukrainian photographer Boris Mikhailov, and ...

Objects come from the magic briefcase that I carry around. One time, I gave a guy a surprisingly massive parrot. Don’t ask me ...

Long before R.F.K., Jr., promised to “Make America Healthy Again,” wellness influencers were peddling a seductive promise of purity to the desperately sick.

During the Cold War, American and Soviet scientists embarked on an unprecedented quest to contact extraterrestrials. But ...

Proposal: “Mar-a-Lago 2.” Formal Title: Decreasing the Burden of American Allies. Effect: Annexation of Okinawa.

Nicola Twilley on the quest for artificial blood. Plus: how the Oscar race got as messy as “Conclave”; the U.S.-Soviet search ...