Inside the Hunt for the Discord Leaker, and Twitter Chaos Updates
Listen and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Stitcher | Amazon | Google Aric Toler untangles the web of teens, gamers and memes at the heart of the latest intelligence…
Ghosts Past and Present Cross Paths as War Comes to Nuclear Wasteland
The world’s worst nuclear disaster, unfolding only a few miles away, did not force Halyna Voloshyna, 74, to abandon her home in Chernobyl in 1986. So when marauding Russian soldiers…
The Phandom of the Opera
“The Phantom of the Opera,” the longest running show in Broadway history, will give its final performance on Sunday, bringing its glittering chandelier crashing down on the stage of the…
Decades on From Peace, Northern Ireland Schools Are Still Deeply Divided
On weekday mornings, Mark Lynn, 10, walks past the 40-foot-tall metal fence looming over his backyard at the edge of his predominantly Catholic neighborhood in Belfast, and heads to his…
The Conundrum of the DeSantis Base: Pro-Trump and Anti-Trump Voters
Bob Sikorski, a 57-year-old business owner in Portage Lakes, Ohio, admires the skill Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida shows on policy and is open to supporting him in a presidential…
Exploring Picasso’s Málaga
In honor of this year’s 50th anniversary of the death of Pablo Picasso, museums and other cultural institutions are pulling out all the stops, with about 50 exhibitions and events…
Opinion | Sorry, Republicans, Your Trans Panic Won’t Help You Win
In the homestretch of the epic Wisconsin Supreme Court race that ended last week with a blowout victory for liberals, voters’ cellphones pinged incessantly with text message ads. “Woke trans…
Unemployment Is Low. Inflation Is Falling. But What Comes Next?
There are two starkly different ways of looking at the U.S. economy right now: what the data says has happened in the past few months, and what history warns could…
Facing Tough Senate Race, Montana G.O.P. Looks to Change the Rules
HELENA, Mont. — Republicans typically cry foul when accused of rewriting election laws to benefit their candidates. But as the Montana legislature debates a new voting bill, even some GOP…
With the Odds on Their Side, They Still Couldn’t Beat the Market
For the stock market, 2022 was a special year. If there was any year in which stock pickers should have been able to outperform the broad market indexes, 2022 was…