Right-wing ideologues have long fantasized about the prospect of mass self-deportation: the Trump Administration is attempting something far more radical.

Cig Harvey’s “Emerald Drifters” is a rallying cry to exist in our bodies.

Pope Francis has long advocated for immigrants, refugees, and the vulnerable—but the Church, like other institutions, may need to find new ways to sustain its commitments.

Ryan Coogler’s vampire movie mines vampirism’s symbolic potential to tell a tale of exploitation and Black music in nineteen-thirties Mississippi.

Universities are accustomed to acquiescing to the government, but Trump made Harvard an offer it couldn’tnot refuse.

An MS-13 leader knew key details of a secret deal that his gang allegedly made with the Salvadoran President—then the White House put him on a flight to El Salvador.

A professor at M.I.T. on how Xi Jinping is likely to respond to U.S. tariffs and why the standoff won’t weaken the Chinese Communist Party’s grip on power.

The Administration’s position position in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia cannot stand—not if the rule of law is to survive.

The view from northern Europe, which, until very recently, had long seen the United States as a land of hope.

The danger behind the President’s posturing is that, by so emphatically insisting on America’s indispensability, he may be undermining it.

New productions of Shakespeare’s “Richard II,” Annie Ernaux’s “The Years,” Robert Icke’s “Manhunt,” Tennessee Williams’s “The Glass Menagerie,” and more.

In Andrew Ahn’s remake of Ang Lee’s 1993 crowd-pleaser, two gay couples strike a bargain that turns both Faustian and farcical.

“Warfare” reconstructs an ill-fated 2006 mission in Iraq from the memories of the NavySEALs involved. Does this method bring us closer to the reality of combat?

Fresh New York stagings of “The Threepenny Opera” and “Love Life” show off the composer’s daring and range.

What’s most striking about the show, now in its final season, is not its hysteria but its lack of conviction.

On their new show, “Paul American,” the controversial influencers try to show a softer side.

Richard Brody on the movement’s major works. Plus:Adam Gopnik on where to eat near the Frick, Marisa Tomei on stage, and more.

Helen Rosner visits Danny & Coop’s, the actor’s East Village restaurant, which brings the beloved Philadelphian sandwich to New Yorkers.

The philosopher and biographerClare Carlisle recommends four works of life-writing that make art out of straddling fact and fiction.

Richard Brody reviews Courtney Stephens and Callie Hernandez’s dizzying docu-fiction.

As I.R.S. employees toil through tax season, their agency is being dismantled by the government it powers.

The memes responding to Trump’s seesawing tariff policy hint at a collective psychological state.

A legal scholar argues that the judiciary’s “passive-aggressive approach” to the Administration is doomed to fail.

The more you explore your own past, the more you find there.

A genetics startup has birthed pups that contain ancient DNA retrieved from the remains of the animal’s extinct ancestors. Is the woolly mammoth next?

A practical guide to courage in Trump’s age of fear.

Some climate activists are giving atomic energy a second look. Should they?

X and Facebook are governed by the policies of mercurial billionaires. Bluesky’s C.E.O. says that she wants to give power back to the user.