In the internet age, national elections are increasingly international. What does Lula’s victory mean for the world?

In Jack Auen and Kevin Walker’s “Chronovisor,” nothing is scarier than a life of the mind. “It has the cadence of a burgeoning obsession,” Becca Rothfeld writes.

I had been staying with my parents in L.A., shooting “The Graduate,” but my father was driving me crazy. Every day, I’d get ...

Club Kid,” Jordan Firstman’s directorial début, tells the story of a gay promoter who finds out he’s a father. On a groggy ...

The Maryland congressman Jamie Raskin talks with David Remnick about his hope for a midterm blue wave, the possibility of ...

Martin McDonagh’s comic thriller “Wild Horse Nine,” set on the eve of the Pinochet dictatorship, diverts our tears toward the ...

Tip Toe,” a gripping British show about middle-aged queer masculinity from Russell T. Davies, is fuelled by panic over the ...

The former President’s riff on Saddam Hussein, the Cheesecake Factory, and our gold-besotted leader was not only funny but ...

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The Texas Democrat has stretched his closing message to encompass Beyoncé, the biblical David, and “Friday Night Lights.” Is ...

Abdul El-Sayed fears that high-profile attacks have compromised his safety—but he also argues that they’ve given him “one of ...

A visual tour of the Place de la République, a site of protests and political conflict in Paris for the past 150 years.