So far, explanations are few and the goals—from regime change to ending a nuclear program the President already claimed to ...

In 2019, just two weeks before Nashville’s new jail was supposed to open, a correctional officer noticed something odd. He’d been organizing keys and other equipment for the new facility when he ...

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Friedmann went inside on November 30, 1987. He was barely out of boyhood, myopic, five feet seven, and pencil-thin. Friedmann, with whom I have corresponded by mail, described the jail, with his ...

Stephen Spencer is a college music lecturer, but his side gig is producing songs written by his three-year-old. “Apple The Stoola,” Record of the Year?

The stoner magazine stopped publishing in 2024. Now the founder of Raw Rolling Papers is lighting it up again.

The series, from the creator of “Derry Girls,” focusses on a group of Irish women investigating a death. But it feels less like a murder mystery and more like a buddy comedy.

Kadir Nelson’s painting for the cover of the March 9, 2026, issue was inspired by the frigid temperatures and heavy snowfall that have swept across much of the country recently. Last week, parts of ...

The director of “It Was Just an Accident” will face arrest upon his return to Iran after the Oscars. But for now he’s looking for a new pair of shades.

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