October 20, 2024, was the ninety-first day of Vice-President Kamala Harris’s Presidential campaign and also, as it happened, her sixtieth birthday—a fact that members of her staff had not forgotten.

Robe Imbriano’s documentary short uses music and animation to illustrate the grave injustices taking place at Houston’s notorious jail and in the cash-bail system at large.

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Paul Thomas Anderson’s spectacular, exquisitely detailed fantasy of revolution and resistance, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, looks to history for visions of hope.

It’s like we can’t control ourself.” In the past decade, YoungBoy has released an astonishing amount of music: more than three dozen full-length releases, including eight in 2022 alone. Along the way, ...

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How an Israeli strike on Qatar, Hamas’ shifting calculus, and Donald Trump’s impatience could change the trajectory of the two-year war.

It’s hard to find things that Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders agree on, but one point of consensus is that pharmaceutical companies have long been ripping off Americans by charging extortionate prices ...

“It was just dumb as hell,” the photographer Jeremiah M. Murphy tells me. “I have rules, and I broke one of my rules.” Murph, as he’s known to those who know him, is recounting an accident during a ...

Nicholas runs a news website called The Free Lance from his home in upstate New York, and, near the end of last year, he started obsessively tracking one story: a man confined at a state prison ...

Two murders and a strike by correction officers inside New York State prisons have exposed a system at its breaking point. Could a major uprising be next? Plus: Jennifer Gonnerman A staff writer ...

Estrangement is a major theme in the story. As an expat, one who is tempted to whisper “Fuck America” on a call to the U.S. Embassy, Daria has estranged herself from the States. And, having lost all ...