Ebola won’t kill us all, but something else might. Like everything living on Earth, viruses must evolve to survive.
“Get On Up” is the second-best film ever made about James Brown.
Jon Lester joins the Oakland A’s quest for their first World Series championship since 1989.
Real and imagined health concerns, drawn into cartoons.
In the days after the revolution, Libyans were full of hope. Now they face the abyss of civil war.
That weird daytime-TV word has jumped to other realms of the arts.
Why are well-fed people in affluent countries often unhappy and anxious?
There is something both appalling and poignant in what Maureen McDonnell chose to ask for from an obliging purveyor of miracle products.
This week the current Lassie, a tenth-generation descendant of the original, visited the magazine’s offices at 4 Times Square for a deskside appointment.
“This is one of several reasons we can no longer sponsor SeaWorld.”
Shortly after her mother died, Annie Marie Musselman started photographing injured animals at the Sarvey Wildlife Care Center, in Arlington, Washington.
The G.O.P.’s dangerous immigration games.
On the road, looking back, with His Bad Self.
How Paul Ryan captured the G.O.P.
A Buddhist monk confronts Japan’s suicide culture.
Cheap sandwiches and free ocean views.
Elizabeth Pisani’s beguiling love letter to a protean country.
R. J. Cutler’s ten-handkerchief teen melodrama, “If I Stay.”
A look at polls suggests that the Democrats will likely lose in November.
Arizona’s botched execution brought neither closure nor satisfaction.
Furious at being called crazies, Republicans have decided to sue the President.
The tendency to put things off dates back to the very beginnings of civilization.
Why go to war, archaeologists have wondered, in what looks to be a linen minidress?
What happened to films aimed at adults?
Driven by the belief that a country should not be defined by its conflict, Stacke began building an online visual resource that would reveal the richness and complexity of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
How did the C-section become America’s most common major surgery? Chileshe Nkonde-Price, a cardiologist at the University of Pennsylvania, wants to avoid an unnecessary Cesarean. This is the last week of her pregnancy.
