May 24, 2016

President Obama described Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour’s death as an “important milestone,” but it also illustrated the tangled relationship between Washington and Islamabad.

Sony Pictures wants male moviegoers to stay interested in its reboot. Hillary Clinton seeks women supporters. Ellen DeGeneres is mixing things up.

Nick Denton, Gawker’s founder, is questioning whether lawsuits brought by Hulk Hogan and others against the site might have been bankrolled by the same source.

The classic story of Orpheus and Eurydice has been told for centuries, and now it has become a folk opera by the gifted songwriter Anaïs Mitchell.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced an inquiry into a series of disappearances and murders, part of a promise to renew the country’s relationship with its indigenous citizens.

On his cross-country trips chasing butterflies and researching “Lolita,” the Russian-born novelist saw more of the United States than did Fitzgerald, Kerouac or Steinbeck.

Discontent bred of globalization and economic devastation has precedent in history. Such dynamics preceded both world wars.

Economists have become increasingly worried that a slide in job turnover and relocation rates is undermining the economy’s dynamism.

Iowa and New Hampshire could lose their coveted status as gatekeepers to the presidency, and independents could be barred from voting in Republican contests.

This documentary centers on a lawyer’s quest to show that intelligent species like chimps and whales merit some legal protections accorded to humans.

This oral history by Svetlana Alexievich, the Nobel laureate, examines life after the Soviet Union’s collapse led to the rise of a feral capitalism.

Companies like Toyota and Volkswagen are supporting the tech companies working to change the way people travel by car.