Other Western democracies have been roiled by the use of spyware to target political opponents, activists, journalists, and other vulnerable groups. Could it happen here?
In India, one of the world’s most polyglot countries, the government wants more than a billion people to embrace Hindi. One scholar thinks that would be a loss.
One of the notes on potential jurors read, “I liked him better than any other Jew But No Way,” then added, “Must Kick, too Risky.”
Had I proposed earlier that we invite someone stranded to come with us to New York, Hugh would have said no. But now there was really no way for him to back out.
With “Nightbitch”—in which Amy Adams turns into a dog—the director portrays parenting as a visceral transformation.
Maps of recent fires across the region resemble California in August, with hundreds of red dots.
Dana White, the C.E.O. of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, helped Trump reach young male voters. Now White says he’s done with politics: “I want nothing to do with this shit.”
Democrats have often described Latinos as decisive when they support liberal candidates and inconsequential when they don’t.
The President-elect’s nominations look like the most flagrant act of vindictive trolling since the rise of the Internet. But it is a trolling beyond mischief.
Any deal will likely be favorable to the Russians, though the clock on Putin’s ability to sustain a wartime economy may be running out.
As “imminent” famine looms, Israel’s legislature has voted to ban the main U.N. relief agency for Palestinians.
The former executive editor discusses his relationship with the newspaper’s owner, Jeff Bezos, who was reportedly behind the last-minute call to kill an editorial supporting Kamala Harris.
Even many of Benjamin Netanyahu’s harshest critics have supported the military campaign in Gaza. “We are seeing a different war than you are seeing,” the writer Yossi Klein Halevi says.
After spending more than a hundred million dollars to help Trump get elected, Musk stands to earn a lot more.
Amid his impending retirement, the tennis champion leaves behind a legacy of courage.
The YouTuber turned boxer triumphed over the legend of Iron Mike, and, less impressively, the man himself.
What sort of reply can one offer to a person who has already decided that the world ends here?
Kamala Harris spoke of creating an “opportunity economy,” a vague idea more likely to appeal to entrepreneurs than to struggling workers.
Jon Sperling secretly spread a non-native species across the Northeast. “It’s insane what this guy was doing,” a biologist said.
The Trump Administration will likely take the lead in any negotiations to end the war—a development that Vladimir Putin would welcome.
Trump’s “God-tier level trolling” of America has already begun.
It took less than twenty-four hours after Trump’s reëlection for young men to take up a slogan that could define the coming era of gendered regression: “Your body, my choice.”
No decision more clearly reveals Donald Trump’s disdain for his country’s armed forces than his selection of the TV host as his Secretary of Defense.
For years, Democrats have sought to win elections by micro-targeting communities with detailed facts. What if the secret is big, sloppy notions seeded nationwide?
