Two new movies emphasize the singer’s spirit of defiance and political courage.

Grace Kelly, Joan Didion, and Sylvia Plath were all guests. For some women, it was a launch pad. For others, it was a trap.

The essays in “Bland Fanatics” trace today’s crises to a long history of violent colonial oppression.

Moving beyond the Moses Complex

Their secondhand experience of past horrors can debilitate them.

“A Promised Land” tells of a country that needed a savior.

The case for forging a new politics of economic justice

The Renaissance thinker’s guide to contemporary politics

How could someone so telegenic, so witty, and skilled in politics have missed out on higher office?

In a career of many flops, he laid claim to the outsized success of Marvel Comics.

The party of the country club tries to embrace a new egalitarian economic agenda.

Vigilante groups have taken up the trappings of the Revolutionary War to justify their insurrection.

Why are veterans trying to tear down the country they once swore to protect?

The Democratic senator has survived in West Virginia by casting himself as a champion of working people. Will his fixation on bipartisanship prevent him from living up to the role?

Thousands of people have been suffering a slew of crazy postinfection syndromes for months—and there’s no end in sight.

The conspiracy theory has become a theology of right-wing rebellion.

What’s really behind the right’s war against Silicon Valley