Mythili Rao

Robin Wright, a veteran reporter of Middle East politics, finds the President’s ambitious foreign-policy goals naïve. 

Jeffrey Toobin sees the 2018 elections as the only remedy for an overreach of executive power in the firing of James Comey.

As an NBC executive, Jeff Zucker helped make Donald Trump. Now Trump might like to unmake Zucker, who runs the President’s favored punching bag, CNN. 

A poet remembers his father’s role in the air-traffic-controller strike, which had devastating effects on organized labor.

A conversation about Sophocles in the aftermath of the Iraq and Afghan wars.    

Joe Williams, who records under the moniker Motion Graphics, creates music that sounds like the Internet.

What a writers’ workshop for prisoners can tell us about life behind bars.

Mary Norris, The New Yorker’s “Comma Queen,” is ready for someone else to worry about punctuation.

A cappella is the dorkiest thing in the world, the a-cappella composer Kristen Anderson-Lopez says.

From Marlon Brando to Halle Berry to Michael Moore, entertainers have used the Oscars to make statements. This year’s ceremony might be a doozy of even greater proportions.  

Trump’s executive order on immigration is intended to prevent terrorists from entering the country. But it’s also keeping physicians out.

Elizabeth Bishop’s unpublished letters reveal a lot we didn’t know about the twentieth ­century master. 

A bolero, a curatorial Twitter feed, and a surrealist cookbook.

Terrorist attacks have pushed Turkey’s president to an increasingly authoritarian, repressive government

The “godfather of gridlock” is backing an effort to treat addicts instead of punishing them, but will the Trump Administration share his faith in science?    

A provocative novelist celebrates the old-fashioned joys of Christmas.    

The writer picks a TV show about the Queen, a novel about John Lennon, and an unbeatable recipe for fried chicken.

David Frum was a “Never Trump” Republican, and he thinks the establishment should fight the President-elect every step of the way.  

Hacked e-mails have been a constant in the news this election cycle. Should we be reading “stolen goods”?    

Students in a high-school mock election step into Clinton's and Trump’s shoes. Can they play their parts without getting suspended?