
Lunar Myths and Mysteries
Two new books explore our growing scientific understanding of the moon as well as its powerful appeal to the imagination.
April 24, 2025 issue
Breaking the Conveyor Belt
Motivated perhaps above all by culture-war grievance, in the past month Donald Trump has tried to radically reshape a century-old system of global trade.
April 20, 2025
Why Harvard Defied Him
How the university fares in its struggle with Donald Trump may well determine the future of academic freedom in the United States.
April 19, 2025
Spaghetti Underground
The MTA’s new redesign of the New York City subway map is the latest of many attempts to capture the sprawling network on paper.
April 18, 2025
The President of Brooklyn
The saga of Eric Adams’s mayoralty has come to epitomize the spirit of Trump’s second term—from its ethos of aggrieved narcissism to its punitive approach toward the vulnerable.
April 17, 2025
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