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The Hand of ISIS at Ohio State
By Robin Wright
The motives behind Monday’s rampage have yet to be determined, but the event could have come straight out of the Islamic State’s manual.
The motives behind Monday’s rampage have yet to be determined, but the event could have come straight out of the Islamic State’s manual.
What can a woman born with a silver spoon in her mouth teach people who use plastic forks to eat salads at their desks?
The Spanish director made a name for himself with raunchy, transgressive films. His latest is a tender adaptation of Alice Munro.
Soon, eighty-six per cent of Indian banknotes will no longer be legal tender. Rarely has an appealing hypothetical encountered so extreme a real-world test case.
A gothic mystery about small-town secrets, the show is also about how time gets distorted.
Robert Zemeckis’s film is a suffocated, lifeless adventure that elevates the wartime effort to a founding myth of good versus evil.
In this video, the Liberace of Lucha Libre describes how he rose to the top by embracing a flamboyantly gay persona who demands respect.
“Mom, Billy’s acting Presidential again.”
Robert Zemeckis elevates the wartime effort to a founding myth of superhuman accomplishment that voids the film of content while endowing it with meaning.
Some potential nominees for Donald Trump’s cabinet, including the bad guy from “Speed” and the bad guy from “RoboCop.”
The attack on Monday, by Abdul Razak Ali Artan, could have come straight out of the Islamic State’s manual—and it appears to have inspired him.
Carrie Goldberg is a pioneer in the field of sexual privacy, using the law to defend victims of hacking, leaking, and other online assaults.
This little-known body of his work, completed while he was a student at the Bauhaus, is being published for the first time.
For a time, I lived here, where the call of life is so strong. In this place I wrote, I was nourished, and I grew.
The President-elect poses a threat to journalistic freedom in the United States, but the consequences could be even more serious overseas.

Robert Battle, the artistic director of Ailey’s namesake dance company, speaks about the historical role of the arts and finding our common humanity.
Meshell Ndegeocello creates a piece of theatre inspired by “The Fire Next Time” and presents it as a church service.
On letters, envelopes, and chocolate wrappers, the poet wrote lines that transcend the printed page.
The actor, who is starring in a stage version of “Dead Poets Society,” attends an open-mike night at the Bowery Poetry Club and recites some lines.
He may not be Hitler, Mussolini, or even Putin. But Trump is Trump—and that, in itself, presents a real danger.
It won’t change the results of the 2016 election, but it will deliver a corrosive attack on the integrity of our voting system.
Trump said that El Chapo’s “tremendous success in the private sector” showed that he has what it takes to “shake things up” at the D.E.A.
When a man who bragged about groping women got elected to the highest office in the land, Google searches for I.U.D.s spiked.
Because many Party élites found Trump’s rhetoric and personality abhorrent, they overstated the extent of their policy differences. In fact, they agree on plenty.
For the producers of an ostensibly substantial movie such as “London Fields” to presume to sell it on the basis of Amber Heard’s bare body is repellent.
In the exhibit “Forced from Home,” visitors face the same awful choices as refugees who flee for their lives.
In Langdon Clay’s photographs, cars parked in New York in the mid-seventies are arrayed like mugshots but lit like Hollywood stars.