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“Obviously, it takes money to kill bad guys, ” said Pete Hegseth, when asked about the funding request.

Israel’s top diplomat in New York City says strikes like the one on Iran’s South Pars gas field were “part of the plan. ”

Rep. Seth Moulton is challenging Sen. Ed Markey — and struggling to land his message with his past anti-trans comments haunting him.

It would be a mistake for Trump to defer to Netanyahu’s regime change fantasies.

The United States is increasing its pressure, but Tehran can still shift to a war economy.

What the war’s most likely outcome means for the United States and the Middle East.

Five years after the coup, foreign brands and the EU's trade preferences continue to generate hard currency for a military regime waging war on its own people.

Two young tennis stars have revived the sport by embodying the sort of athletic-aesthetic duality that made Nadal and Federer so fascinating.

In Shenzhen, the successes and failures of China’s remarkable new economy are on full display.

In his novel G. , John Berger shifts between the revolutionary possibilities of mass demonstrations and of erotic encounters, ultimately writing a historical novel about the present.

In Electric Spark, Frances Wilson attempts to crack the ingenious codes that were of prime importance in Muriel Spark’s life and writing.

The more we learn about J. M. W. Turner and John Constable, the more extraordinary it seems that two such breathtakingly original painters could emerge and flourish at the same time in the British art world.

Why has the will to ignorance become so virulent in our time?

There has never been a moral and historical reckoning with the horrors inflicted by the Allied firebombing of Japan during World War II.

A new anthology of female Hungarian poets engages with the nation’s often tragic history through various forms of reticence, misdirection, and playfulness.

A. E. Stallings’s reflections on the Elgin Marbles illustrate how beautiful objects have the power to inspire both the noblest effusions and the pettiest efforts at acquisition.

The Firesign Theatre, a comedy group formed in the 1960s, created surreal albums that mixed satire and science fiction, and inspired a generation of misfits.

A new history explores France’s empire from the perspective of the indigenous and enslaved people who participated, willingly or not, in its creation.

The mathematician Paul Lockhart believes to his core that math is the purest of the arts, and anyone can learn to love it.

Tyriek White’s We Are a Haunting traces the lives of Black Brooklynites dealing with the porous boundaries between the past and the present as they forge lives amid the detritus that others have discarded.