On our "Politics and More" podcast, @[Jeffrey Toobin] joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss the key decisions of the recent Supreme Court term.

Ashraf Ghani is Afghanistan’s Jimmy Carter—a visionary who has managed to alienate all his potential political allies.

Nearly a decade ago, Microsoft tried to buy Facebook and failed. On Monday, it finally succeeded, but for very different reasons.

Why do evangelical Christians so often seek to claim converts among the dead?

On the first day of Ramadan, a look back at a writer's first full month of fasting after his conversion to Islam: "In shorthand descriptions of Ramadan, it’s sometimes said that the fast lasts from sunrise to sunset. That’s not true. That would be easy!"

Superstorm Sandy caused a hundred million dollars in damage to the Statue of Liberty. Waves could topple statues on Easter Island. Flash floods are expected to hit Stonehenge.

The E.U. has resulted in the longest period of peace and prosperity in modern European history.

Why do colleges mindlessly require mathematics of everybody, even if you plan to major in poetry, interior design or modern dance?

With every month, it has become clearer that Donald Trump is a makeshift politician, whose rancid wit resides in his willingness to say whatever it takes to arouse the fears of a political base, David Remnick writes.

At the age of 70, Bill Weld, the former Republican governor of Massachusetts, has become the Vice-Presidential nominee for a party to which he’s never belonged.

From age sixteen, Kalief Browder was wrongfully held on Rikers Island. For nearly two of his three years in jail, he was in solitary confinement, where he attempted suicide several times.

Peter Thiel is surely aware of this case’s potential to begin a reëxamination of American press law, far beyond the fate of Gawker.