In today’s newsletter, the ritualistic sights and scenes at Pope Francis’s funeral. Plus: I watched the funeral for Pope ...

Jeff Bark’s elaborately composed scenes channel sundered American fantasies. They also function as personal folklore.

How U.S. military lawyers see Israel’s invasion of Gaza—and the public’s reaction to it—as a dress rehearsal for a potential ...

In Dea Kulumbegashvili’s film, Ia Sukhitashvili plays a Georgian obstetrician who views a woman’s right to choose as an ...

Also: reviews of Broadway’s “Smash” and “John Proctor Is the Villain”; New York’s financial crisis of 1975 in “Drop Dead City ...

From the daily newsletter: what happens when we can optimize pregnancy. Plus: Susan B. Glasser on Trump’s confused desires.

It makes sense that a man who yearns for a reality untroubled by other humans would be drawn to art that is untouched by anything human.

It took its current form in 2018, under President Andrés Manuel López Obrador—a pugnacious, swaggering populist known ...

This documentary examines the economic changes and managerial missteps that brought the city to the brink of bankruptcy in ...

The university’s $53.2-billion endowment has positioned it to resist the bullying tactics of an increasingly authoritarian ...

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So horrible, I heard the news. Well, I heard an echo of the news from aboveground—the sinkhole gets neglected by the media.