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Archival images from the last weeks of World War II, taken by an American Army combat photographer during a push across eastern France into southern Germany

Artists can be self-obsessed jerks. But you can get in touch with your artistic side without falling into that trap.

Shocking revelations often used to lead to meaningful governmental reforms. But not in the age of Donald Trump.

Cristina Rivera Garza’s newly translated novel evokes a mixture of numbness and anxiety in the face of incessant violence.

The Department of Government Efficiency’s seizure of government databases is not just an act of bureaucratic reorganization. It is an act of constitutional restructuring.

In promoting Elon Musk’s car company, Donald Trump showed just how far he’ll go for his allies.

American higher education would be in a much stronger position today if it had made a proactive case to the public for its own importance—and taken steps to address its very real shortcomings.

It’s the Trump administration, not Columbia, that has done nothing to confront anti-Semitism in its own ranks.

The pro-Palestine student was arrested without due process for exercising his right to free speech. He will not be the last.