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Last Wednesday, as I watched Grok bring up white genocide in response to an anodyne query about the Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Max Scherzer’s career earnings, I couldn’t shake the question: Why are ...

Dykes to Watch Out For, the long-running lesbian comic strip that launched Alison Bechdel’s career, is full of kitchen-table ...

House Republicans voted to advance a bill that would offer lavish tax cuts for the rich while slashing benefits for the poor.

Israel’s limits on aid have put the region at “critical risk of famine.” Help is within reach. But it’s not enough—and it’s ...

Something remarkable happened last week, though it didn’t get the attention it deserved: A long and brutal war came to an end ...

The “debt doesn’t matter” consensus had a strong start. During the coronavirus pandemic, Congress spent trillions of dollars to keep the economy on life support without worrying about paying for it.

The candy convention was a celebration of everything that the health secretary believes is wrong with our food.

A new documentary revisits a pivotal week at Gallaudet University in 1988.

A manifesto left by the bomber of a fertility clinic demands refutation.

The 1970s campaign fought to get women paid for their work in the home—and envisioned a society built to better support ...

The bird—a young Cooper’s hawk, to be exact—wasn’t using the crosswalk, in the sense of treading on the painted white stripes ...