1+ hour, 51+ min ago   (120+ words) Cabinet members were rewarded points and praise for appearing in congressional districts and states with competitive midterm elections. Read: The YOLO presidency Read: Trump plans to buy midterm ads about his own record Perhaps emboldened by his previous campaign-trail appearance…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (392+ words) The Houthi advance is bad news for the U.S., and even worse news for Saudi Arabia. Yesterday morning, those delusions drifted away like smoke as Houthi forces broke through their enemies’ defenses and seized the towns and islands around the Bab…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (195+ words) At a midterm convention, Trump tries to defy the odds one last time. “I’m asking you to pretend that I’m on the ballot,” he said. “I’m on the ballot. I’m on the ballot. Just one more time.” Read: Trump plans…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (130+ words) He was ready for life after the Smithsonian. Protecting the institution had taken a toll. Lonnie Bunch, the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, was already slipping into the past tense when we walked together through the National Museum of American…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (148+ words) The attacks 25 years ago inspired a sense of national unity. It has since been shattered. The response underscored how much New York belongs to America. Rescue workers from red and blue states raced to help. Donations poured in from rich…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (234+ words) The Smithsonian secretary protected an American institution from more than Donald Trump. Bunch, 73, would likely have chosen to retire earlier if not for his sense of duty—his conviction (which few dispute) that he was the best person to guide…...

1+ week, 23+ hour ago   (198+ words) His life as a writer and farmer was informed by a simple, clarifying idea: Forget tomorrow, and work toward what is good today. I knew this already, of course. Berry, who died on Monday at the age of 92, lived a…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (143+ words) Do you suck the head out?” I heard from the table next to me earlier this summer, at Two Chefs, a restaurant in Amsterdam that hosts a monthly crayfish boil. Yes is the answer: The best way to eat a... What…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (24+ words) The activist and writer, who died yesterday at the age of 92, steadfastly fought for her belief that women could change the world together....

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (66+ words) The Atlantic Ed Markey will be 86 at the end of his next term. The Massachusetts race was a rare Democratic primary this year in which U.S. policy toward Israel did not become a flash point, as both candidates criticized Benjamin Netanyahu’s…...