Both the prosecution and the defense tried to tell tidy stories. But, in the end, five weeks of testimony from more than eighty witnesses couldn’t resolve the central mystery of Clancy’s state of mind.

The writer, who recently released a new novel, speaks with The New Yorker’s Doreen St. Félix about the meaning of home in an era when Haitian Americans are targeted for mass deportation.

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

Also: Harry Styles takes up residence at M.S.G., “Paranormal Activity” terrifies Broadway, Dakota Fanning and Jake Johnson star in a new movie, and more.

A coterie of advisers, planners, and architects is enabling the President’s passion project—renovating D.C. in his own image.

Elegance Bratton’s second feature, starring Mark Wahlberg and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, brings a gangland perspective to the legal battle for civil rights in the nineteen-sixties.

We blame smartphones—but the problem might be us.

In both the ballroom and the mail-in-ballot cases, the President has tested the Justices’ willingness to stop him in his tracks.

In Na Hong-jin’s monster movie, violent small-town comedy and big-budget Hollywood imperialism collide.

During a residency at the Folly Tree Arboretum, I encountered significant specimens including a clone of a “tree” that went to the moon on Apollo 14.

When you’re lucky enough to have lived a long life, as I have done, your role is to remind us how far we have come.

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

I spend two-ish hours messing around with an A.I. chatbot, as per the company’s new mandate, teaching it how to do my job so that it can replace me. Any questions?

The President is touting his big Venezuelan oil deal, but his interventions abroad are stirring anger and having unintended consequences.

Neal Ascherson found himself at the center of the great crises of Cold War Europe. Do careers like his exist anymore?