Empathy has had a strange journey over the last decade. It has been variously assailed as too parochial, too indiscriminate, ...

A graphic memoir traces the author’s research into forbears whose fate had been a family mystery.

The twentieth century was dominated by two tyrannies, fascism and communism, with more in common in their methods of ...

A kidnapping, a car accident, a duffel bag of cash and an injured deer being dragged by a middle-aged theatre performer on a ...

I met him several times after he became Nigeria’s president in 2015, but the meetings did not change my impression of him as ...

I met him several times after he became Nigeria’s president in 2015, but the meetings did not change my impression of him as an enigma. Yet, as history peels ...

The odious idea of a camp within a camp. The Gaza Strip, with an even greater concentration of Palestinian civilian life within an ever-shrinking stretch of territory. These are the proposals ventured ...

From the daily newsletter: the fracturing of the MAGA base. Plus: how Dartmouth College became the Ivy League’s Switzerland; ...

Venezuela released 10 jailed Americans on Friday in exchange for getting home scores of migrants deported by the United ...

When the first nuclear bomb test took place 80 years ago, the scientists who gathered to observe the explosion in the New Mexico desert recognized they were playing with fire.

Alissa Ellman, 41, plans to declare her race for the Democratic nomination in New York's sprawling 24th District today.

Congress eliminated almost $1.1 billion in funding for public media. The systems' leaders say the cuts threaten the survival ...