An annual roundup of things to make life a bit sparklier, a bit easier, or just a bit sillier.

Whenever a colleague is unkind or unfair, I let them know . . . that, unfortunately, I’ve just noticed the time and I’d ...

Gratitude isn’t obviously a concept capable of generating such perplexities. But it has hidden depths. Manela is among the ...

New research suggests that the Democrats’ struggles in communities battling fentanyl addiction had little to do with economic ...

Eight months after the fall of Roe v. Wade, Vanessa Garcia lay on a hospital table in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley, as a ...

Despite Angelina Jolie’s passionate performance, this sensationalized story of Maria Callas’s last days neglects the diva’s ...

Reporting from the Rio Grande Valley. Plus: Trump’s interesting pick for Treasury Secretary; the first great American film ...

Frank Lucianna spent most of his life as a criminal-defense lawyer from New Jersey; even as he pushed a hundred, he didn’t ...

It’s not strange at all—lately, a lot of people are reporting that their faith in humanity is riding entirely on whether or ...

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In the second MAGA Administration, the hedge-fund manager Scott Bessent will have the job of acting as a voice of reason.

The vacation hot spot has been overrun by people—whose habits are drawing fast-moving animals with sharp claws and insatiable ...