Jessica Winter

Grassroots activists believe that high-altitude advocacy is taking precedence over helping patients access care.

Voters are amending their state constitutions to protect reproductive freedom—and discovering the limitations of these measures in the post-Dobbs era.

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris have presented sharply different proposals for alleviating pressure on families. But not all forms of stress are created equal.

Recent books that explore the erotic reawakening of older women also reflect the uneasiness that such women inspire—in others and in themselves.

Years after John McGahern became the center of a national censorship debate, his novel “The Pornographer” cast an impassive eye on death, sex, and patriarchal repression.

In the Vice-President’s previous debate triumphs, she did not conquer her opponents so much as she permitted them to lose.

Since COVID, many professors have become more flexible about due dates. But some teachers believe that the way to address student anxiety is more deadlines, not fewer.

Like many memoirs, J. D. Vance’s book misses a few details, some of which complicate the story upon which he has based much of his politics.

Amid an overheated national argument, David France, the director of “How to Survive a Plague,” replaces perception with reality.

In the best-selling 2016 memoir “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of Family and Culture in Crisis,” Bonnie and Jim’s grandchild J. D. Vance portrays Bonnie’s pregnancy as a fulcrum in a generational saga. “Without the baby, would she have ever left Jackson?” Vance asks. His grandmother’s “entire life—and the trajectory of our family—may have changed for a baby who only lived six days.” “Hillbilly Elegy” charts how Vance brushed off the last of whatever Kentucky coal dust still clung to his gray flannel…