1. Photo illustration by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari

    Feature

    The End of the Anglo-American Order

    For decades, the United States and Britain’s vision of democracy and freedom defined the postwar world. What will happen in an age of Donald Trump and Nigel Farage?

  2. Illustration by Javier Jaén

    First Words

    Is ‘Empathy’ Really What the Nation Needs?

    From media pundits to tech companies, more and more people are preaching empathy — as long as it serves their own interests.

  3. Taryn Simon/Gagosian

    On Photography

    Capital, Diplomacy and Carnations

    Taryn Simon’s photographs — knowing, unsentimental and meticulously made — attend to the details of how power works.

  4. Nadav Kander for The New York Times. Set design by Betil Dagdelen.

    Feature

    The Passion of Martin Scorsese

    In his new film, “Silence,” he returns to a subject that has animated his entire life’s work and that also sparked his career’s greatest controversy: the nature of faith.

  1. Holiday Feast

    Gentl and Hyers for The New York Times

    Feast in New York City

    A restaurant chef knows how to squeeze a personal gathering into the precious off-hours — and how to nourish family and friends.

  2. Feature

    Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez

    Billionaires vs. the Press in the Era of Trump

    A small group of superrich Americans — the president-elect among them — has laid the groundwork for an unprecedented legal assault on the media. Can they succeed?

  3. Feature

    Illustration by Louise Pomeroy

    Reince Priebus, Normalizer in Chief

    As Trump’s new chief of staff, the lifelong G.O.P. loyalist will have to guide an outsider president and his band of radicals through a city they’ve pledged to upend.

  4. Talk

    Shannon Faulk for The New York Times

    Glenn Beck Is Sorry About All That

    The media personality on learning from his mistakes and why Donald Trump could be one of the most dangerous presidents to ever come into the Oval Office.