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

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 ...

This year marks the two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the nation’s founding. The two hundredth wasn’t exactly smooth sailing.

A new book asserts that we all might learn something from fetishists, who exist in playful surrender to the things that they ...

Fifty years ago, a controversial writer named Shere Hite taught us how to talk about sex and pleasure, selling books by the ...

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 ...

New orchestral and chamber performances of George Antheil’s Fourth Symphony, Wallingford Riegger’s canon and fugue, Norman Dello Joio’s “Magnificat,” Robert Russell Bennett’s violin concerto, and ...

The Supreme Leader, who ruled the Islamic Republic for nearly four decades, has been killed by Israel and the United States.

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.

Early on Saturday, the United States and Israel began a military campaign to overthrow the governing regime in Iran. The ...

The U.S. and Israel have ignited a campaign to topple the Islamic Republic—with little thought to what comes after.

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?