How Did American Christianity End Up Like This?

America’s fight for independence is often considered a battle fought and won at home. A new book argues that it was propelled by a transnational élite an ocean away.

In a recent speech, the Justice made clear that he views the movement, past and present, as anti-American.

“The Last Temptation of Christ,” the director’s 1988 epic, became one of the first victims of a new conservative playbook—and set the template for the culture wars of today.

Leo XIV’s new encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas,” presents a remarkable case for placing moral concerns, and not profit, or competitive advantage, or efficiency, at the center of any discussion of artificial intelligence.

National pride in America has plummeted in the Trump era. Is it worth trying to salvage?

Dallas Jenkins’s show—a prestige drama about Jesus’ life that became the biggest crowdfunded television project in history—has come to model the sort of bottom-up, fandom-first entertainment that is quietly reshaping the industry.

Pennsylvanians who voted for the President last time around revisited.

She was a Black and Indigenous woman who became famous for working in white marble. But the focus on her race can obscure the subtle, often contradictory triumphs of her art.

History knows the First Lady as a hysterical widow and a lavish spender. Her most recent biographer chooses to highlight her mental fortitude and political prowess.

A new history explores how the city’s commingling of popular forms and artistic experimentation shaped dance in the twentieth century.

Why has a Republican contest in Kentucky become the most expensive House primary of all time?

In “People of the 20th Century,” the photographer set out to document every type and profession in the fading epoch of prewar Germany.