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I thought that the e-mailed invitation was spam. “Nice try, Russia,” I said to my laptop screen. But the Pope really did want to meet with comics and humorists.

The Barefoot Contessa looks back at a career built on fantasies of comfort and plenty.

The A.I. revolution is coming to a pharmacy near you.

The actor recalls a childhood full of danger and adventure in the South Bronx.

It’s hard to empirically determine whether they drive voters to the polls. But they might have less measurable effects.

The Vice-President and her advisers clearly believe that being accused of flip-flopping is a lesser threat to her campaign than being cast as too radical.

Four years ago, the Democrats made big promises to address racial and economic injustice. Will voters remember?

The contest for an obscure political office partly responsible for administering elections has become the race behind the race, with stakes that could determine the Presidency.

The player known as Queenwen won Olympic Gold, and is moving through the early rounds of the U.S. Open.

New technologies are raising suspicions about students’ work, but the controversy—like so many others swirling around American classrooms—misses the point of what we want our kids to learn.

At their Convention in Chicago last week, the Democrats looked like a party that is unusually united in its goals.

In its new collective-bargaining agreement, the pro soccer league has eliminated the draft. Free agency “was always the players’ power to begin with,” one executive said.