Alex Barron

A writer and performer reflects, in a Tony-nominated Broadway hit, on the distortions and falsehoods that she herself peddled as as a teen-age debate champion.

Much of Pete Holmes’s comedy comes from losing his evangelical faith, but he’s still passionate about the role religion plays in our lives.

Varshini Prakash, a co-founder of the Sunrise Movement, says there’s no choice but to strive.

No one knows better than Carol Browner how hard the fight for environmental legislation will be.

A fashion correspondent on the new aesthetic of the tech world, where jeans and hoodies once sufficed.

Bill Weld, a former Massachusetts governor, bids for the G.O.P.’s Presidential nomination, calling the incumbent Donald Trump’s Presidency a “train wreck.”

When the actor Richard E. Grant was fourteen, he wrote a letter to Barbra Streisand. Forty-seven years later, she answered.

McBath won the Georgia congressional seat once held by Newt Gingrich by running on a platform of gun reform. She’s treading lightly.

A Navy veteran who was deployed in Afghanistan talks about the appeal of the firearm, and how the cavalier attitude of some civilian gun enthusiasts angers him.  

The writer talks about a new trilogy he describes as “an African ‘Game of Thrones,’ ” and about writing fantasy from a Caribbean perspective.

A successful executive says that activist investors’ quest for one quick stock bump after another is wrecking companies and eroding American competitiveness.

Tariffs and trade wars are things of the past, a Chinese venture capitalist says. The real challenge will come when China’s tech sector outpaces Silicon Valley.

For forty years, the New Yorker writer violated a fundamental rule: marriages in literature should be unhappy.  

A panel of female writers discuss the portrayal of women in the work of Philip Roth.

A professor of the classics lives the adventures of the fifth-century B.C. in the hugely successful Assassin’s Creed video games.

The fight director B. H. Barry has taught performers to simulate stabbings, stranglings, duels, and brawls—while singing at the tops of their lungs.

A professor explains how “white rage” shaped, and continues to shape, our democracy.

The best way to make a turkey, and other Thanksgiving musings.

Prime Minister Theresa May unveiled a deal for Britain’s withdrawal from the E.U. It didn’t go well.

Paulson, the former Treasury Secretary under George W. Bush, explains how he became an advocate for sustainable growth.