The state raised the minimum wage for fast-food workers—and employment kept rising. So why has the law been proclaimed a ...

I’m typically quiet and mind my own business. But in recent weeks, I’ve been having conflicts with people over minor things.

This new image from the James Webb Space Telescope features the young star cluster NGC 602, surrounded by the varied clouds ...

For centuries, eggnog has been a part of America’s Christmas festivities. George Washington was rumored to have his own ...

A Doll’s House also underscores how easy it is to get trapped playing a part, particularly one that’s lavishly rewarded.

After a multiyear investigation, the House Ethics Committee reported today that former Representative Matt Gaetz paid “tens ...

The president has commuted the sentences of 37 men on federal death row to life without parole, a historic move.

IT WAS in the clove of seasons, summer was dead but autumn had not yet been born, that the ibis lit in the bleeding tree. The ...

America’s politicians have an age problem, and the issue seems especially acute among congressional Democrats. The prevalence ...

The only thing we know for sure is that these conversations will be worth having. They might even be tough, difficult, or ...

The comedian Jamie Loftus’s previous podcasts have ranged wildly in subject matter—Mensa meetings, Floridian spiritualists, the comic-strip character Cathy—but benefited equally from her attention to ...

It was like something out of the horrors of New York City’s past. At 7:30 yesterday morning, a man approached a woman ...