A deadlock in Congress over federal spending has many workers furloughed or working without pay. President Trump has threatened layoffs if Democrats continue fighting. The New York Times The ...

An improv rule says improvisers should play the scene they’re in, not the scene they want to be in. One summer, I took a 6-week summer intensive at iO in Chicago. I really bonded with my classmates ...

During his term in office, former UK prime minister Tony Blair sent British troops to support the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. (AP Photo/John Moore, File) (AP) Auto ...

A federal judge agreed Monday to temporarily suspend the Trump administration's plan to eliminate hundreds of jobs at the agency that oversees Voice of America, the government-funded broadcaster ...

Senator Chuck Schumer, the minority leader, spoke with reporters hours before the shutdown.Credit...Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times The government shut down on Wednesday morning at 12:01 a.m., amid a ...

EXCLUSIVE: Paul Thomas Anderson‘s most commercial movie ever, One Battle After Another, follows revolutionaries who are involved in freeing immigration encampments, robbing banks for their cause and ...

In 1989, Sir Tim revolutionized the online world. Today, in the era of misinformation, addictive algorithms, and extractive ...

Last Wednesday, Ryan Walters, Oklahoma’s Superintendent of Public Instruction, one of Trump’s attack dogs in the war against public education, announced he was resigning his post on September 30 to ...

Well before Lehman Brothers collapsed and capitalism quaked, Gabe Tobias had an arresting view of what would become the global financial crisis. It was in Santa Ana, Calif., where Tobias was working ...

On Friday's episode of "Real Time with Bill Maher," host Bill Maher argued that to get back to what he called "old America," Democrats must scale back their more radically progressive ideology. "If we ...

The Supreme Court on Friday cleared the way for the Trump administration to continue to withhold over $4 billion in foreign aid already approved by Congress. Earlier this month, a federal judge in ...