TICK, TOCK, tick, tock, I listen to my family grandfather clock’s pendulum click back and forth. Passed down in the family ...

This article appears in the March 2025 print edition with the headline “Capitulation Is Contagious.” ...

Jules Feiffer, the cartoonist and playwright whose syndicated comic strip ran for four decades, has died. The Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner was 95.

Dinner parties in the capital have long been a path to power, but Perle Mesta had her eye on a different prize.