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Universities, law firms, and news media have already been targeted by the administration. As the Justice Department pushes to investigate the Open Society Foundations, it seems that philanthropies that support critical voices may be next.

The science of gemstones has always been intertwined with their value as luxury items.

The US capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro reinforces the Trump administration’s capacity to invent any pretext to justify the use of armed force.

42/I Seated securely on the solid pillar Of the verses in which I remain, I have no fear of the endless future influx Of times and

The difficulty of amending the Constitution does not mean that it is a flawed and outdated relic of a distant past.

A dispatch from the Art Editor

President Trump’s decision to support Delcy Rodríguez as Venezuela’s new leader makes clear that oil, not democracy, is his main concern.

At St. Michael’s, small graves sit in view of Home Depot. The triangular cemetery rests in the middle of a highway interchange, bounded on all three sides

Four months after the revolt that overthrew the government of Nepal, Kathmandu seems calm. The new interim government has officially recognized the

After Ugandan tyrant Idi Amin was ousted from power in 1979, his regime left behind mountains of paperwork generated by the state bureaucracy. Years

María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader and recent recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, has been calling for a foreign—read: US-led—military

The first time I saw a sculpture by Tatiana Trouvé, in an uncommonly dim gallery at a museum in Mougins, in southern France, I assumed that I had found

In July 1987 the Hajj ceremony in Mecca turned into a bloodbath. Shia pilgrims, mostly Iranians, staged a protest, chanting against America, Israel, and

In her poem “The Swan, No. 20 (Hilma af Klint)” from the Review’s October 23, 2025, issue, Victoria Chang delineates the line of beauty (a word that