New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low ...

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

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

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

Robert Eggers’s version of the classic vampire story keeps its villain in the shadows.

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

The disgraced former Florida representative now faces the blunt reality of his own political irrelevance. T he normal rules ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

She wants him to spend the holidays with my hostile sister.