From the daily newsletter: the constitutional rights of embryos. Plus: evidence of starvation, dehydration, and neglect in ...

By defying the Justices’ ruling on a man mistakenly sent to El Salvador, the Administration has shown that it is not owed the ...

People who love Phish do so with a quasi-religious devotion. People who dislike Phish do so with an equal fervor.

Jason Robert Brown débuted “The Last Five Years,” his two-character musical autopsy of a marriage, in 2001, when Nick Jonas ...

The view from northern Europe, which, until very recently, had long seen the United States as a land of hope.

Music is no longer a matter for the few,” Kurt Weill declared in 1928, the year he wrote “The Threepenny Opera.” In Weill’s ...

For the cover of the April 21, 2025, issue, the artist Frank Viva attempts to portray the feelings that grip anyone following ...

Short reviews of recent releases.

The underground-comic artist visits the Whitney with his biographer, Dan Nadel, and considers some old friends: his own ...

The Talking Heads front man brought his acrylic markers to the Pace gallery recently to make some art—dancing ovals, a ...

Why are incarcerated people dying from lack of food or water, even as private companies are paid millions for their care?

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