Tyler Foggatt

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding promised a kind of narrative closure for Swifties: after the pop star spent years singing about imagined weddings, her life was finally catching up with her art.

In the new HBO docuseries, about petty disputes between homeowners, everyone has a gun, a grievance, and a security camera.

Instead of providing closure, the release of thousands of documents has intensified the fear that the full truth may be unknowable—and that institutions cannot be relied on to provide it.

The circumstances of the movie’s production and release are revealing. The film itself is far less so.

The Secretary of State is often described as the architect of U.S. policy toward Venezuela. How much control he actually exercises remains uncertain.

The idea that Donald Trump is acting from a governing strategy or a conception of national interest “seems completely disconnected from reality,” Chotiner says.

They do argue, however, that there are ways out of the United States’ authoritarian moment.

As Trump escalates his confrontation with Venezuela, questions mount about the line between counter-narcotics policy and a bid for regional dominance.

In a new standup special, and a début novel, the comedian navigates murky, post-#MeToo terrain: not quite exiled, not quite welcomed back.

In recent years, severing ties with family members over political differences has become increasingly normalized. Is going “no contact” a necessary boundary, or a harmful overcorrection?