The admonition that we must remember the past to avoid repeating it has always struck me as strange. If human history teaches us anything, it is that the unexpected keeps happening, and responding to ...

But he was skeptical that Trump would fulfill the anti-abortion movement’s sweeping ambitions. “It would be great if we ...

I’ve had to accept more help in more forms from more people — friends and strangers alike — than in the entire preceding 50-plus years of my life. I’ve slept in their guest rooms, eaten their ...

To turn a streak into a habit, you should make it easy to repeat the behavior, said Dr. Wendy Wood, who taught psychology and business at the University of Southern California and is the author of ...

Dowd: Lorne Michaels’ [the creator and producer of “S.N.L.”] theory is that even the biggest villains have to have a drop of ...

Jan. 22, 10:30 a.m. PST Cal Fire data marked the Palisades Fire at 68% containment and the Eaton Fire at 91% containment, ...

Soumya Karlamangla, who covers California based in San Francisco, explores how the fires are reshaping her view of her home ...

Other books we recommend this week include Dorian Lynskey’s study of the role the apocalypse plays in the cultural imagination, Caleb Femi’s rave-influenced poetry collection and new novels by Adam ...