Winners of the 2025 International Landscape Photographer of the Year
A collection of winners and selected images from the competition’s “Top 101” group, chosen from more than 3,600 entries by professional and amateur photographers around the world
The Underrated Part of Jane Birkin’s Legacy
Stylish face? Secret visionary? A new book argues for a different approach to the late actor.
Does Heritage Support Discrimination Against Women?
The organization’s recent hiring reveals a willingness to countenance views decisively outside the American mainstream.
The Operator
Josh Shapiro has spent his life preparing to lead an America that might no longer exist.
The Last Big Case Against Trump Has Been Dropped
The U.S. justice and political systems have shown that they can’t hold the president and his allies to account for trying to steal the 2020 election.
Tom Stoppard Achieved the Impossible
His plays hold us in the moment outside of time.
Netanyahu Just Admitted He’s Unfit to Lead Israel
In attempting to call off his corruption trial, Netanyahu didn’t incriminate himself, but he did something just as damning.
A Stellar Nursery
Day 2 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar
The $7,500 Self-Deportation
The Trump administration is spending millions to entice people to leave.
What’s the Point of School Photos Anymore?
The portraits are kitschy and expensive—but parents can’t seem to stop buying them.
America Refuses to Go Bald
As Millennials enter their Rogaine era, the hair-loss industry is eager to receive them.
Accommodation Nation
America’s colleges have an extra-time-on-tests problem.
Olivia Nuzzi’s Tell-Nothing Memoir
Can American Canto turn scandal into literature?
Trump Seizes Back the Spotlight
That may not be the boon he thinks it is.
Pete Hegseth Needs to Go—Now
A man with such contempt for the military should not run the Pentagon.
Tom Stoppard Made a Spectacle of History
In a career of magnificent plays, The Coast of Utopia stands out for its humor, its characters, and its warnings about ideological fervor.
2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar
Welcome to the 18th annual Space Telescope Advent Calendar, featuring remarkable images from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and James Webb Space Telescope. Every day until December 25, this page will present a new image of our universe.Updated at 10:19 a.m. ET on December 25, 2025
Trump’s Boat Strikes Could Make the Cartel Problem Worse
The administration’s lethal strikes on suspected traffickers may compromise, not advance, America’s battle against cartels.
Rising Prices Are Bad, but Plummeting Prices Are Worse
Americans may envy China’s deflation. They shouldn’t.
What History’s Fallen Societies Have in Common
A new book argues that civilizations built on centralized wealth and power contain the seeds of their own destruction.
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