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Meet the critics who believe the arts are in terminal decline.

Across America, in front of crowds of thousands, men and women are dressing up as knights from the Middle Ages and fighting one another. The weapons, violence, and chivalry are all real.

Former senseis and business partners accuse Schulmann of building his $35-million-a-year martial-arts empire with Mafia tactics. What, you expect him to apologize?

If you wanted to turn someone into a socialist you could do it in about an hour by taking them for a spin around the paddock of a Formula 1 race. The kind of money I saw will haunt me forever.

They gave up the game after high school, but the damage seemingly was already done. Now, their families mourn and look for answers

The childhood friends behind the most audacious string of sports-memorabilia heists in American history

A sobering snapshot of what being a sports fan can look like in this fledgling era of app-based betting.

As revolutionary new weight-loss drugs turn consumers off ultraprocessed foods, the industry is on the hunt for new products.

Few things symbolize our national dysfunction as much as this accursed coin, which we mint by the millions because it’s too worthless to spend.

Why we want the wrong things.

People who believe conspiracies about the Trump assassination attempt or buy into QAnon are often seeking purpose or belonging — truth is beside the point.

Louis Menand reviews Triumph of the Yuppies: America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation

Americans have become terrible at forming and keeping friendships. But there must be somebody out there who wants to grab a burrito with me.

Pete Wells is moving on from his role as the Times restaurant critic, a job with many rewards and maybe too many courses.

For Jock Sutherland, being hailed as the world's best surfer was just one phase in an unlikely life.

Benjamin B. Bolger has spent his whole life amassing academic degrees. What can we learn from him?

Why would an armed officer stand by as a school shooting unfolds?

At Chicago’s buzziest new restaurant, Mike Satinover is obsessed with one goal: making the perfect bowl of Japanese noodles.

Decades after the unexplained deaths of two American climbers in Argentina, a camera belonging to one of them was found in the snow. The film held astonishing images, but the mystery endures.

Conman Rick Dugo targeted his victims in gyms until one man finally helped take him down.

First, Salt Life was a tattoo. Then it became a logo. Now it is a lifestyle brand with plans to open stores from coast to coast.

Live had some of the alt-rock era's hugest hits, but in recent years the former bandmates have been bitterly divided by legal drama and interpersonal conflict

How the cult of consumerism ushered in an era of badly made products.

Recipeasly allowed users to strip stories and ads from online recipes, but the food blogging community cried foul.

AA Gill used to think that being an NHS patient was like travelling second class on a train, grittier than first class, but in the end everyone ended up at the same destination. But in his farewell piece he tells of his discovery of a drug not available on the NHSAA.