Freedom House Says America Is Less Free Than It Has Ever Measured
The US scored 81 out of 100 in Freedom House's 2026 report — its lowest mark in 54 years of measurement, with the sharpest decline among all free countries.
Culture
Noma Sponsors Flee as Disputed Testimony Complicates the Reckoning
Cadillac pulled sponsorship and protesters remain outside Noma's LA pop-up, but a disputed burn claim has given Redzepi's defenders an opening — while Michelin and James Beard say nothing at all.
Raphael Comes to New York for the First Time in a Generation
The Met is staging the first comprehensive Raphael retrospective ever held in the United States, and the fact that it took this long tells you something about how we treat the Renaissance.
Gino Paoli, Voice of Postwar Italian Romance, Dies at 91
Gino Paoli, who wrote 'Il cielo in una stanza' and defined the sound of postwar Italian longing, died today in Genoa at 91.
Solnit's Sequel to Hope in the Dark Arrives on the Bestseller Lists
Rebecca Solnit's The Beginning Comes After the End — a sequel to Hope in the Dark written for this political moment — debuted on the NYT and LA Times bestseller lists within weeks of publication.
The Government Has Until Wednesday to Show Its Hand in the Don Lemon Case
A federal judge ordered the DOJ to make all discovery disclosures in the Don Lemon FACE Act case by March 26 — civil rights attorneys doubt the evidence will survive scrutiny.