In “McNeal,” the playwright Ayad Akhtar explores the way artificial intelligence is disrupting the literary world and raising questions about creativity.
With its new term starting this month, the Supreme Court will likely confront calls to upend constitutional law yet again. One very possible target is people’s...
The Hungarian Prime Minister's presentation of his priorities for the Hungarian Presidency has polarised his admirers and his critics.
Last spring, protests at numerous American universities, prompted by the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, produced fierce debates over freedom of speech on campus. Colleges...
Last week was full of speeches. Most of those that attracted national attention were at the Democratic National Convention, culminating in Vice President Kamala Harris’s big...
They are not (yet) leaping onto the Democratic Party bandwagon. But one undecided voter said, “Maybe it’s not as hard to vote for her.”
President Biden and his top aides have spent days reworking his original address, which he expected to give as the Democratic nominee, for a new moment.
Four years ago, Casey Harrell sang his last bedtime nursery rhyme to his daughter. By then, A.L.S. had begun laying waste to Mr. Harrell’s muscles, stealing...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Washington, a long-awaited trip intended to shore up waning support at home and abroad for the war in Gaza, was...
The six days that carried Donald Trump from the stage in Butler, Pa., to the rostrum at the Republican National Convention seemed at times like the...