Kinkade called himself the Painter of Light, but Art for Everybody finds the darkness in his life. Relatives recount that ...

Thomas Kinkade’s paintings show conservatives a world they have already won.

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Gerardo Caetano May 16, 2025 Pepe Mujica in 2023 (Patrick Iber) José “Pepe” Mujica died on Tuesday, May 13 at age eighty-nine. Mujica was an icon of the democratic left in Latin America and around the ...

From 2020 to 2022, Americans saw the state mobilize immense resources to boost their standard of living—and then witnessed the hard political constraints hemming in this capacity.

Hope has been restored for many Syrians. But vigilance will be needed to ensure that democratic institutions emerge and withstand autocratic impulses.

In February, the labor reporter Luis Feliz Leon published an essay on the n+1 website on unions’ varying responses to Trump. We were intrigued by his mention of a members’ meeting organized by Faye ...

Our empathy seems to make us righteous—even as we benefit from an unequal world.

We have witnessed the destructive effects of financialization. Can the millions held in bank deposits, corporate equities, and bonds be used instead to provide for society’s most pressing needs?

The origins of sanctuary movements can be traced to the 1980s, when the United States carried out proxy wars across Central America in an effort to stem the tide of communism. The Reagan ...

In China, academic competition has become a kind of faith, providing values and a sense of purpose to its acolytes.

If there’s one universally held truism in the digital age, it’s that our attention has gone awry. The subject has been developed by so many authors—including Johann Hari, Cal Newport, Nicholas Carr, ...