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The newest Justice tried to give a lecture about the Constitution. His colleague had other ideas.

Rather than looking for laughs, Kimmel chose to state some harsh truths on his show.

Senior citizens are losing their assets and their autonomy to a hidden system.

There is a strong internal culture based on the idea that no Justice should embarrass the Court.

“I’ve always said, in the back of my mind, that I was surprised something like this hasn’t happened sooner,” the owner of New Frontier Armory said.

The label feels necessary in moments of national horror. But the words we use to describe our shock and pain can serve to degrade us further.

The singer, who died on Monday, was tuned in to the blank spaces between our catastrophes and triumphs, when we are desperately trying to sort out what comes next.

Of all the ways in which American democracy is showing symptoms of dysfunction, the inability to face down the gun lobby is one of the most egregious.

The facts remain facts. Gun control acts on gun violence the way antibiotics act on infections—imperfectly but with massive efficacy.

People have to apply themselves to reach new benchmarks, and it is indisputable that we, as a society, have applied ourselves to reach this one.

Two explanations for the gunman’s actions have been offered so far. Neither makes much sense.

While millions have been vexed for some time by their failure to explain basic information to dolts, that frustration has now reached a breaking point.

“We will now observe a moment of silencing critics of gun violence.”

How Rachel Maddow constructs a narrative.

Tom Petty was a pleasingly unpretentious rock star, a creature of the seventies, without the big boomer causes—a guy just trying to figure life out.

Larry David’s casual cruelty mirrors the times more than ever, but the new season might still fit awkwardly in the current moment.

The director Nancy Buirski’s emotionally simplistic approach to her subjects is inseparable from her arm’s-length, impersonal approach to the film.

The year’s first Nobel went to three Americans who pioneered the study of the biological clock. What does it mean?

Joni Mitchell’s lessons in love.

It’s impossible for me to live my best life until I’ve housed some fruit-infused sparkling water. So I just can’t even with you right now.

Essential oils have become big business—but are they medicine or marketing?

In Gill v. Whitford, legislators across the U.S. have implored the Justices to take action against a bold and powerful kind of partisan redistricting.

In the trio’s new version, Young’s classic protest song becomes a muted expression of a grief that is all too common today.

Is “diversity” an improvement on affirmative action, or the end of it?

After decades of speculation and searching, a signal has come through. It promises to change our understanding of the universe.

Colin Kaepernick has been called many things, but none has been more divisive than “kneeler.”

Wilbert Awdry, who created Thomas the Tank Engine, disliked change, venerated order, and craved the administration of punishment.

The heartbreak comedy of “One Mississippi.”