Rachel Aviv

The President-elect’s brand of America First isolationism has always sat awkwardly with his Napoleonic tendencies.

Short reviews of recent releases.

Readers respond to Rivka Galchen’s article about prosthetics and Anthony Lane’s essay about risotto.

A nationwide movement has funnelled taxpayer money to private institutions, eroding the separation between church and state.

He's ruled with absolute power for five decades, forever adding to his list of oracular pronouncements—about producing TV, making comedy, and living the good life.

From the daily newsletter: the conservative attack on secular schools. Plus: Jane Mayer on Pete Hegseth; urban fires in a combustible age; knowing when a system has failed; and does one emotion rule us all?

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The author of “The Second Coming” and “City on Fire” selects recommendations from the great American writer's sprawling body of work.

Despite a venerable history—and a citywide child-care crunch—the Weekday School is facing closure.

“Donald Trump is a master of picking appointees for very senior positions who never would have gotten those jobs under anyone else,” the staff writer Susan B. Glasser says. “I think it’s part of creating not just a government of laws and rules but a government built around the principle of personal loyalty to one man.”