From the daily newsletter: reading for the year ahead. Plus: direct democracy comes to America; requiem for a refugee camp; ...

An Oregon county is looking for solutions to youth homelessness—so it convened a random selection of residents to come up ...

I could not imagine anything worse than the destruction in Jabalia refugee camp. But what is happening now outstrips anything ...

Are you gasping for air because your mom texted “Call me” with zero context, or is there an apex predator on the ...

In Wisconsin, many of the Party’s candidates fared well, suggesting that the Presidential loss was not all it seemed.

The late President’s priorities were remarkably prescient, and his personal qualities offered a dismaying contrast to so much ...

As President, he told us that we needed to shift to solar power. We should have listened to him then.

Some animals can remember where they’ve buried hundreds of thousands of seeds. Why can’t we remember where we’ve put our ...

From the daily newsletter: the closest approximation in public life to an American saint. Plus: images taken at the end of ...

Images taken just after the precipitous end of the civil war reveal a secret legacy that is just becoming visible.

Radical revisionism is a strong contender for the theme of this disruptive year, in which some unique property of political ...

Hugh Herr, the director of an M.I.T. laboratory that pursues the “merging of body and machine,” grew up in a Mennonite family outside Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He and his brothers—he was the ...