Samuel W. Franklin’s latest book explains how we sold ourselves out to a fake virtue.

Despite attacks from their colleagues, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her peers are part of a proud tradition of influential legislators who moved their party left.

The events of 2023 showed that A.I. doesn’t need to be that good in order to do damage.

A far-from-exhaustive guide to the books that our writers and editors enjoyed in 2023

A new illustrated edition of “Entangled Life” shows how extensively we rely on fungi.

Gary Bass’s new book asks why the tribunal in Tokyo after World War II was so ineffective.

Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt explained “How Democracies Die.” Then they decided to look even deeper.

For all the messiness of his music, his account of his life in Sonic Youth is conspicuously tidy.

His incoherent attacks on critical race theory are only one part of a much larger plan for counterrevolution.

“Regime Change” fits into a long tradition of magical thinking, from Anton Mesmer to Theodore Roosevelt and beyond.

How corporations wrested creative control from writers and editors—to produce less interesting books.

My toddler loves books like “But Not the Hippopotamus,” “Babar the Elephant,” and “Yertle the Turtle.” But the world he’s inheriting is losing these animals at an astonishing rate.

The senator has always wrestled with his conscience—and compromise.

Workers once confronted industrialization by taking a hammer to the new machines.

“The Young Man” is more than the story of an affair. It’s an intense re-examination of the past.

His polemic “The Identity Trap” presents very little evidence of identity politics run amok.

Climate change made Lydia Davis rethink our relationships to each other, close and distant.

C Pam Zhang’s novel “Land of Milk and Honey” imagines eating and surviving when climate change has decimated food supplies.

The leading choreographer kept art and politics remarkably separate until the invasion of his home country.

“People think, ‘Oh, it’s just snapping pictures of yourself; it’s very easy to generate attention.’ It’s actually very hard.”