The Lessons of Henry Kissinger
The legendary and controversial statesman criticizes the Obama Doctrine, talks about the main challenges for the next president, and explains how to avoid war with China.
America’s gambling problem, how history will remember Obama’s presidency, and how to avoid war with Beijing. Plus, stolen valor, the case against cats, and more
The legendary and controversial statesman criticizes the Obama Doctrine, talks about the main challenges for the next president, and explains how to avoid war with China.
The country has become repressive in a way that it has not been since the Cultural Revolution. What does its darkening political climate—and growing belligerence—mean for the United States?
Modern slot machines develop an unbreakable hold on many players—some of whom wind up losing their jobs, their families, and even, as in the case of Scott Stevens, their lives.
Nearly half a century ago, a feminist art historian asked why there had been no great female artists. A new wave of all-women exhibitions revives the question—and suggests a new answer.
His apartment had no heat. Worse: Council officials said his building did not exist. A short story
The outgoing president has resolved old problems and avoided new ones.
A rougher, shaggier answer to the Olympics
Staff Sergeant Anthony Anderson’s mission to name and shame people who pretend to be military heroes
And why it’s endangered
Parents can remotely track infants’ heart rate, their mood, and their every move—but should they?
A very short book excerpt
The wicked vendettas of Thomas De Quincey, the author of Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Her new novel, Swing Time, explores how dance can and can’t transcend racial barriers.
Many Americans could have gone either way during the Revolution.
The animal so many dote on is among the world’s most destructive predators.
In his most recent book, Alex Beam details the disintegration of Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson’s friendship.
Readers respond to our September story on head transplants as the next frontier of medicine, an essay by Ta-Nehisi Coates on O. J. Simpson in our October issue, and more.
A big question
A poem