This article appears in the January 2026 print edition with the headline “How Terror Works.” ...

In 'Family of Spies,' author Christine Kuehn confronts a past that is stranger and more sinister than fiction.

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WITH Europe in ruins and nearly 30 million Allied dead, the first instinct of the victorious nations was to put the most ...

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As part of the fascist war on “woke”, tens of thousands of books have been pulled from the shelves of libraries around ...

Wicked: For Good still features magnificent music and performances, especially from Ariana Grande in the sequel, but the ...

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On November 16, Tom Cruise will be honored with an Honorary Oscar at a gala in Hollywood. It's the first Oscar for the man ...

On 1988, Benazir Bhutto made history as Pakistan’s first woman Prime Minister — and the first to lead a Muslim-majority ...