A Chicago criminologist challenges our assumptions about why most shootings happen—and what really makes a city safe.

As the Lebanese Army tries to assert its authority in the war-torn south, calls to disarm Hezbollah are rising.

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The N.H.L.’s newest hockey team unveiled its official name and mascot: an extinct behemoth with fossils at the American ...

The N.H.L.’s newest hockey team unveiled its official name and mascot: an extinct behemoth with fossils at the American ...

In “Superfine,” the Africana-studies scholar Monica L. Miller explores the links between style, self-presentation, and ...

We have been so touched by the flood of D.M.s, the comments posted on Nextdoor, and the notes tied to rocks thrown through ...

The new book picks up a decade later with a different crisis, this one born of a sudden increase in drugs. Among the novel’s ...

The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the ...

The movie podcast, which examines the crazy passion projects that directors pursue after their first big hit (“Aloha” or ...

The Pavement front man passed through town with his latest project, the Hard Quartet, and showed off his one-handed backhand.

Readers respond to Jonathan Blitzer’s Comment about Trump’s deportation policy, David Owen’s piece about voice-to-text transcription for deaf people, and D. Graham Burnett’s essay about the humanities ...