When Alicia hopped her first train in May 2024, a southbound freighter out of Georgia, there were a few things she didn’t know yet. First of all: where it was going. Second, that when you’re riding ...

From Edward Abbey’s The Monkey Wrench Gang to the “ecotage” novels of today, literature helps us grapple with the enormity of the planet’s crisis—and how far we’d go to solve it.

The host of “Secular Talk” previews his next Current Affairs article ...

I grew up under apartheid. Musk and his father Errol, technologists and race fanatics, transmit its warped perspectives to the world.

Florida’s politics have been misunderstood. Democrats have failed to compete there because they haven’t offered voters inspiring candidacies, not because it’s a “red” state.

Some of these places along here, they used to be somewhere. Two decades into the 20 th century, Route 66 tied half the country together. Before the interstate highway system, the Mother Road brought ...