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During the President’s second Administration, universal principles such as self-determination and due process are wielded only opportunistically.

Jeremy Padawer, whose company owns Squishmallows, is one of thousands devastated by last year’s fire. At a rally for the anniversary, he’s more passionate than ever about reform.

On a break from playing Oedipus in the new Broadway production, the British actor stops by Federal Hall to chat politics, family dynamics, and being mistaken for Stanley Tucci.

Carlita Belgrove is the go-to stove whisperer, restoring the appliances of N.Y.C. élites and Hollywood actors. On a trip to the Hamptons, can she save her client’s Magic Chef?

After the ouster of President Nicolás Maduro, some residents fear that one unelected despot has been swapped for another.

Since Putin invaded Ukraine, the short distance between Nome, Alaska, and Russia seems wider than ever.

The network’s new editor-in-chief has championed a press free from élite bias, while aligning herself with a billionaire class more willing than ever to indulge Donald Trump.

Early in his life, Sanders left the streets of Brooklyn for the woodlands of Vermont. What did the man bring to the state—and what did the state bring to the man?

“Scavengers,” “Some Bright Nowhere,” “Atlas’s Bones,” and “Everything Is Photograph.”

We keep revising the maternal ideal—and keep falling short of it.

The Japanese chef Junya Yamasaki mastered a butchery technique that results in tastier seafood—and he’s taught some Southern California fishermen how to do it, too.

At the Met, the Finnish artist’s spare, melancholic work has the strange effect of jolting your senses.

“This is not / a good year. / But it has / witnesses.”