America’s housing crisis has reached unfathomable proportions. But new construction isn’t enough to solve it.

The Premier League needs to punish its most successful team if it wants to save itself from disrepute.

Unlike accounts that focus on the travails of European settlers, Pekka Hämäläinen’s new book tells a 10,000-year story of Native cultures, politics, and resistance.

From Stanford to Silicon Valley, a small town in California spread tech’s gospel of data and control.

The English Premier League transformed itself into the predatory “Super League” that fans thought they had defeated.

Is “Infinity Pool” too Cronenbergian?

Militia groups have long used Waco as a rallying cry. But it was never the example of whiteness under siege that they invoke.

The argument that corporations have historically been a force for good—and can be again—is wishful thinking.

A new book traces Chekhov’s relentless work as both a doctor and a master of the short story.

The novelist China Miéville aims to show that Marx’s words remain just as vital as when they were first hastily composed.

His poetry was a bridge from feeling to fact, sense to senselessness, and from the possible to the impossible.

Not many people bought her books, but nearly everyone who did wrote their own.

The great grand strategist of the Cold War believed he failed in his most important task.

A new history of the environmental movement places too much emphasis on famous figures like Rachel Carson and shies away from confronting failures.

A new biography traces Rhys’s life of self-sabotage, excess, and devotion to art.

A lifelong striver who wrote about lifelong strivers, Hazzard was perpetually dissatisfied with the world she grew up in.

The league has historically quickly brushed aside tragedies and catastrophic injuries. The Bills’ safety’s shocking cardiac arrest is different.

A conversation with Ryan O’Hanlon, author of “Net Gains: Inside the Beautiful Game’s Analytics Revolution”

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The Qatar World Cup never should have happened. But there are signs that the world is finally waking up to the corrupt arrangements that brought it about.