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Gina Gionfriddo's zinger-filled date-night play and the celebratory ballroom-culture adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's confounding musical are cathartic catnip.

Can you make a longer word with each new letter?

After an unlikely political rise, New York's Mayor has embraced a model of governance focussed on basic services--and making sure New Yorkers see it.

From the daily newsletter: the many mixed messaging from artificial-intelligence companies.

The writer and internet critic discusses books that reflect different facets of living in a society run by billionaires.

In some ways, Eric Swalwell's miserable tale is as old as time. In others, it looks like a parable of our modern media environment.

Israeli voters are against a ceasefire with Iran, and think Netanyahu has not gone far enough.

A.I. companies are facing hostility and mistrust--and much of the heightened, sometimes histrionic rhetoric about the powers of the technology has come from within the industry.

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

Reviews of notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.