Do the financiers deserve the credit for Silicon Valley’s success?

“The Candy House” captures the strange online experience of never losing touch with anyone.

The suspicious death of a marine surveyor illuminates flows of illicit money in the global economy.

How movies about the political system fell in love with cynicism and messaging

American government succeeded, Tocqueville thought, because it didn’t empower the people too much.

Is the Republican Party compatible with democracy?

A study of strongmen misses deeper reasons for democratic collapse.

The case for keeping public goods under democratic control

No one understood political battle lines better than a Communist politician from Sardinia.

A passion for science made Wells famous. But he was driven by a longing for something more.

Her new novel “Pure Colour” investigates the eternal.

The father of game theory helped develop the atom bomb—and thought he could calculate when to use it.

Why did William F. Buckley campaign to free Edgar Smith?

The Hulu series portrays the Theranos CEO as a visionary outcast—just as she saw herself.

The longest running theme in the history of the party might be charges of incoherence and disorganization.

The crisis that Federici identified in the 1970s has reached a boiling point.

Lea Ypi’s memoir recounts Albania’s troubled transition to democracy.

Some actors go to extremes to get into character. It wasn’t meant to be that way.

“To Paradise” shows little interest in the big questions it asks.

What turned Smedley Butler into a critic of American foreign policy?