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TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACYThe Seductive Lure of AuthoritarianismBy Anne Applebaum Even before the coronavirus began to test our social order, the world was experiencing another plague, a pandemic of authoritarianism. Over [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Seven miles off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa, sits a windswept lump of shale and limestone known as Robben Island. For more than three centuries, it […]

WHEN POLICE KILL By Franklin E. Zimring Illustrated. 305 pp. Harvard University Press. $35. UNWARRANTED Policing Without PermissionBy Barry Friedman434 pp. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $28. It is, to hear [...]

Fort Leavenworth in midsummer is a sultry campus for the Army's new leaders, American and allied majors on the fast track and generals who have just earned their first star. [...]

Not If But When: Everybody who spends much time thinking about nuclear terrorism can give you a scenario, something diabolical and, theoretically, doable. Michael A. Levi, a researcher at the [...]

WITHIN THE HEAVILY FORTIFIED RESIDENCE OF the American ambassador in Islamabad, Secretary of State Colin Powell found himself dining last fall with his improbable new best friend, General Pervez Musharraf, […]

CORRECTION APPENDEDINDELIBLE INKThe Trials of John Peter Zenger and the Birth of America's Free PressBy Richard KlugerIllustrated. 346 pp. W.W. Norton & Company. $27.95. More than half a century after [...]

Byline: BY BILL KELLER PRISON REVOLT A former law-and-order conservative takes a lead on criminal-justice reform. In the mid-nineteen-eighties, shortly after the convictions of six members of the House of [...]

Through the weeks of melodic mourning and rose-colored reminiscence that followed the death of Nelson Mandela, I occasionally found myself exchanging bursts of frustration with other journalists who were there [...]

THE BULLY PULPIT Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism By Doris Kearns Goodwin Illustrated. 909 pp. Simon & Schuster. $40. If you find the grubby [...]

By the time I met Cyril Ramaphosa in 1992, he was Nelson Mandela's choreographer at the negotiations that would eventually bring three centuries of white dominion to a thrilling and [...]

FIVE MYTHS ABOUT NUCLEAR WEAPONS By Ward Wilson Illustrated. 187 pp. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. $22. THE SECOND NUCLEAR AGE Strategy, Danger, and the New Power Politics By Paul Bracken 306 [...]

At the end of January, New York's Conservative Party, the most influential of the minor parties that complicate the state's politics, celebrated its 50th anniversary at a Holiday Inn near [...]

THE STRONGMAN Vladimir Putin and the Struggle for Russia By Angus Roxburgh Illustrated. 338 pp. I. B. Tauris. $28. THE MAN WITHOUT A FACE The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin [...]

As an American visitor in the power precincts of Pakistan, from the gated enclaves of Islamabad to the manicured lawns of the military garrison in Peshawar, from the luxury fortress [...]

ARGUABLY Essays By Christopher Hitchens 788 pp. Twelve. $30. Anyone who occasionally opens one of our more serious periodicals has learned that the byline of Christopher Hitchens is an opportunity [...]

From the Magazine Ten years after the attacks, we memorialize the loss and we mark the heroism, but there is no organized remembrance of the other feelings that day aroused: [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED If a candidate for president said he believed that space aliens dwell among us, would that affect your willingness to vote for him? Personally, I might not disqualify [...]

Eleven summers ago I was sent to a management program at the Wharton School to be prepped for bigger things. Along with lectures on finance and entrepreneurship and the like, [...]

Whether the scandal afflicting News Corp. represents the beginning of the fall of the House of Murdoch or just another thrilling episode in the career of the Teflon tycoon, I [...]

There was exciting news last month among the Twitterati. Brian Stelter, The New York Times prodigy and master of social media, announced to his 64,373 followers that he is going [...]

ABSOLUTE MONARCHS A History of the Papacy By John Julius Norwich Illustrated. 512 pp. Random House. $30. John Julius Norwich makes a point of saying in the introduction to his [...]

Supporters of same-sex marriage say gay people are entitled to be fully equal citizens, including in their yearning to make families. Opponents say the state has no business bestowing the [...]

If the 2012 election were held in the newsrooms of America and pitted Sarah Palin against Barack Obama, I doubt Palin would get 10 percent of the vote. However tempting [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED Dear Mr. Keller: Last night on the ''PBS NewsHour,'' they had a story about some Los Angeles Times reporters who uncovered corruption in a nearby, small city in [...]

Last week my wife and I told our 13-year-old daughter she could join Facebook. Within a few hours she had accumulated 171 friends, and I felt a little as if [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED This has been a grievous season for the tight-knit tribe of combat photographers. For The Times, the sorrow began last October, when a land mine exploded under Joao [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED My colleague David Leonhardt, an economics writer who somehow makes common sense seem provocative, won a Pulitzer Prize the other day. I have no doubt the judges who [...]

NEW DELHI -- Bill Gates, Sarah Palin and Warren Buffett (now there's an opening in search of a punch line) each passed through here recently, instructing the Indians on how [...]

Last year, Gabriel Schoenfeld, a veteran of the conservative magazine Commentary, published a book that explained how The New York Times could be prosecuted under the Espionage Act. The book [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED Has anyone actually seen James O'Keefe and Julian Assange together? Are we quite sure that the right-wing prankster who brought down the leadership of National Public Radio and [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED According to the list makers at Forbes, I am the 50th most powerful person in the world -- not as powerful as the Pope (No. 5) but more [...]

As a reporter, I covered two of the greatest losers of the last century. The superlative ''greatest'' applies both to the scale of the loss -- Mikhail Gorbachev lost Russia [...]

This past June, Alan Rusbridger, the editor of The Guardian, phoned me and asked, mysteriously, whether I had any idea how to arrange a secure communication. Not really, I confessed. [...]

THE PUBLISHER Henry Luce and His American Century By Alan Brinkley Illustrated. 531 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $35 Of all the arguments under way these days at the noisy crossroads [...]

PLAYING THE ENEMY Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation By John Carlin Illustrated. 274 pp. The Penguin Press. $24.95 The heart-lifting spectacle of South Africa's first free [...]