In today’s newsletter, the ritualistic sights and scenes at Pope Francis’s funeral. Plus: I watched the funeral for Pope ...

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Jeff Bark’s elaborately composed scenes channel sundered American fantasies. They also function as personal folklore.

In Dea Kulumbegashvili’s film, Ia Sukhitashvili plays a Georgian obstetrician who views a woman’s right to choose as an ...

From the daily newsletter: what happens when we can optimize pregnancy. Plus: Susan B. Glasser on Trump’s confused desires.

As the transatlantic alliance falters, a major exhibition of U.S. photography offers Europeans a dizzying array of ...

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As Tesla’s profits drop, a group called Everyone Hates Elon is going viral for plastering London with fake advertisements for ...

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The university’s $53.2-billion endowment has positioned it to resist the bullying tactics of an increasingly authoritarian ...

The architect behind London’s Shard, New York’s Whitney Museum, and Paris’s Centre Pompidou discusses the beauty of ...