The Oscar nominee, who plays a hoodoo healer in “Sinners,” stops at a Brooklyn apothecary and reflects on pregnancy, learning Yoruba, and blessing Michael B. Jordan’s bag.

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The Trump Administration has decided that it need not make a case for military action. In the current media environment, that approach makes a disturbing kind of sense.

Nicola Twilley, a frequent contributor to The New Yorker, is a host of “Gastropod,” an award-winning podcast that looks at food through the lens of science and history. Her books include “Frostbite: ...

Democrats have not won a statewide race in Texas in more than thirty years, but last night James Talarico emerged as the next ...

Godlike,” by the seminal punk musician Richard Hell, transposes a notorious affair between nineteenth-century French poets to nineteen-seventies New York.

Representative Greg Landsman explains his hope that the conflict remains limited but also creates an entirely new Middle East ...

Yasmin van Dorp’s short film depicts beautiful destinations—and the crowds of cell-phone photographers who inundate them.

In a tightly contested Democratic Senate race, the state representative defeated Jasmine Crockett. Republican Senator John Cornyn and state attorney general Ken Paxton face a prolonged contest.