In streamlining its logo, Google took something we trusted and filed off its dignity.

As the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean continues, revisit Philip Gourevitch on the importance of rescue efforts.

By renaming Mount McKinley, we are honoring the mountain and the first people who saw it often enough to love it, Adam Gopnik writes.

Liberals on the Supreme Court had plenty to celebrate in the term that ended in June. But don’t expect the streak of victories to last, Jeffrey Toobin predicts.

If Ralph Waldo Emerson's poems had been just a little better, we might not have American literature as we know it. Dan Chiasson explains why.

As the host of the MTV Video Music Awards, Miley Cyrus presented herself more like a teen left alone for the first time than as an agent of insurrection.

Sayed Kashua has long been one of the most visible Arabs in Israeli pop culture. But last year he bought a one-way ticket to Illinois.

The Borowitz Report: "As a federal judge, I made this ruling based strictly on legal precedents and the merits of the case. But, as a fantasy-team owner, sure, it’s going to be awesome to see Tom in there for all sixteen games."

T-Pain—who popularized Auto-Tune and rocked college parties with the slinky "Buy U a Drank"—became a parody of himself, and he was honest about the depression that came next.

Since the Titanic sank to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, stories about the ship's demise continue to be told. Its wreckage was found thirty years ago this week.

In 1641, when the American colonists established a legal code, the first capital crime was idolatry. The second was witchcraft.

A cartoon by Liana Finck. Discover more cartoons from this week's issue here: http://nyr.kr/1O67Ijs