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Florida Republicans want Trump to seize indicted former Cuban President Raúl Castro.

As AI rapidly reshapes our world, narrow, single-view thinking risks mistaking part of the picture for the whole.

The bloc has swapped Russian pipelines for American tankers — without breaking its addiction to imported fossil fuels.

Hu Anyan’s memoir about delivering packages in Beijing is disarmingly direct about the human cost of modern logistics.

I wasn’t going to come today. Partly because the act of coming here—to America, as a non-American—is now a fraught, stressful, and even dangerous

Edward Fishman's Chokepoints explains how the US came to rely on its economic arsenal, but stops short of a complete assessment of the unreliable tactic and its often devastating consequences.

In his posthumous memoir, Alexei Navalny’s utopian vision of “the Beautiful Russia of the Future” remains strangely detached from history.

Tracey Emin’s art has often tackled taboo subjects, including rape, abortion, and sexual abuse, but her multifarious works are always bracingly antitherapeutic.

An exhibition of Paul Klee’s late works focuses on his depictions of the atmosphere of violence and intimidation in Germany after the Nazis came to power.

Makenna Goodman’s new novel, Helen of Nowhere, offers up an exhilarating myth for men who need to be shuffled offstage.

Methane's part in the climate crisis remains largely overlooked, even though it is responsible for 30 percent of all global warming to date, and despite the fact that it's still possible to purge it from our skies.

In Mathias Énard’s many novels, encounters between cultures can lead to transformation—and peril.

The Met’s new Tristan und Isolde was a vocal triumph for Lise Davidsen and Michael Spyres, but Yuval Sharon’s staging only fitfully captured the essence of Wagner’s masterpiece.

Historians must not cede the study of how Americans understand their cacophonous nation to advocates of “patriotic” history.

Generations of “sociobiologists” have tried and failed to argue that genetic analysis offers the key to understanding social inequality. A new book fares no better.

After the fall of Berlin the Soviets concealed their discovery of Hitler’s remains, leaving the Western Allies scrambling for evidence that he was dead.

To the Editors: Catherine Nicholson has written a wonderful account of Beloved Son Felix , evidently a wonderful book, which I look forward to reading in

To the Editors: Orville Schell’s whitewashing of Chiang Kai-shek, as though he was merely a well-meaning patriot whose character flaws “were sadly

Since 2013, Maricopa County officials have approved $226 million in sheriff’s office spending related to a settlement aimed at rooting out racial profiling. Auditors found that more than 70% of it was misattributed or misappropriated.

Experts says New Orleans must relocate. That's hard when your economy revolves around seafood.