Every Tuesday, James Parker tackles a reader’s existential worry. He wants to hear about what’s ailing, torturing, or nagging you. Submit your lifelong or in-the-moment problems to ...

Pulling from folktales, mythology, art, and literature, Tokarczuk’s novel spins a story that feels eerily familiar and yet ...

Even when you’re lacking in a store-specific app, your apps will let you pay by app. You just need to figure out (or remember ...

Schopenhauer’s theory was that the will is so ineffable that the nonverbal language of music alone could grant access to this ...

On the whole, Democrats are going electric and Republicans are not. Partisanship only partly explains the difference.

The death toll is going to be tremendous in North Carolina. It already is, but sadly, I think it’s going to grow. There are ...

When a loved one is in need and you’re at a loss for words, using AI is better than saying nothing at all.

How soon will that day come? The most surprising moment of the debate arrived right at the end, when it became clear that the ...

Recently, there has been some dispute over the approximate date that complex life will no longer be able to live on Earth. Astrophysicists have long understood that in roughly half a billion years, ...

Vance’s implicit position is that conservatives have a state-enforced right to the use of private platforms; that the state ...

The issue is that they give room to bad-faith actors who will try to create mayhem in the days and weeks following November 5 ...

In Texas and elsewhere, new laws and policies have encouraged neighbors to report neighbors to the government.