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When an angel in a recently restored Roman chapel was seen to resemble Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, it touched off a very Italian scandal.

The representatives of our two-party system have made it into a weapon that works against the people.

Andrew Ross Sorkin’s history of the 1929 stock market crash reminds us that financial bubbles are inevitable—and that another one may be about to pop.

To the Editors: This is a response to “The Anti-Trans Playbook, ” published by Paisley Currah in The New York Review of Books on December 18, 2025. Currah

It took Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu many years of persistent effort before he succeeded in finding a US president willing to help him

At first I am afraid to enter the library. I have arrived at the US Department of Justice website because my attention got snagged by a random post on

“I took the opportunity to observe the surviving lemurs in their natural habitats—and it was love at first sight. ”

In the United States today, officials at all levels of government generally act as if private enterprise is the only way to provide goods and services.

This is the 150th anniversary of Rilke’s birth. Or, you might say, the 99th anniversary of his death. I asked a small group of students if they knew of

Friday’s Supreme Court decision rebuffing President Trump’s signature foreign policy initiative—worldwide tariffs imposed pursuant to an asserted national

Brazil’s military dictatorship, which lasted from 1964 to 1985, retaliated fiercely against whoever contested its monopoly over the country’s public

“Every writer, sooner or later, must face the fact that our characters are taken directly from our own lives, so there will be friends, relatives, and acquaintances who are going to feel like they’ve been pushed under the bus. ”

Social disaster is becoming increasingly affordable. On February 12 the Trump administration rescinded the Endangerment Finding, a 2009 EPA determination

Luis Alvarez brought a scientific pragmatism to many of the twentieth century’s greatest mysteries, including the secrets of pyramids, the Kennedy assassination, and the disappearance of the dinosaurs.