The President’s goals were clear on the first day of his term, when he issued an executive order overruling the Fourteenth Amendment’s birthright-citizenship clause.

The narrator is out walking the family’s dog when a man suddenly appears in her path. She realizes, with dread, that it’s a person who’s been stalking her. After initially becoming fixated on her, he ...

The shortest magazine pitch of Nick Paumgarten’s life actually took place in an elevator, which the writer was sharing with an elevator-phobic editor, and consisted of a single word: “Elevators!” The ...

In most states, the highest-paid public employee is a football coach. Lately, more and more of them are getting money to go ...

My son hadn’t even been born when I started secretly writing him a birthday letter each year. As he neared adulthood, I ...

A—My candidate is a man foursquare, a true representative of the people, a leader worthy of the trust which has been placed in him, and a standard-bearer who will carry the banner of our ga-reat and ...

A collaborative work by a photographer, a poet, and an artist, “The Harlem Book of the Dead,” newly reissued, tells stories through funerary portraits.

ONE rather expects the unexpected from fillies. Still, it was something of a shock to see Thelma Berger win the Beldame Handicap at Aqueduct last weekend. She’d been beaten badly in most of her starts ...

THE women’s par at the Los Angeles Country Club is 81. The course is hilly, sprinkled with trees, but sensibly trapped; from all reports, an interesting but not particularly difficult test. We never ...

Booth, who can squeeze through a keyhole, got the touchdown he deserved even though he found the keyhole plugged—he got it over the transom, so to speak, his beautiful pass to Beane giving him his ...

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