It only weighs about a pound when you first pick it up, and yet Chuck Klosterman’s book Rock* was hard to lift when I went back to it. It grew heavier and heavier. It became a brick, then an anvil. Klosterman is one of my favorite nonfiction writers — our leading Gen X pop-culture critic. […]

Democrats are poised to combat President Donald Trump’s tariffs if they win congressional majorities in the midterm elections. While they are unlikely able to get Trump to sign bills undoing his own agenda, they could force Republicans to take difficult votes on the tariffs, from which they have been shielded thus far by GOP leadership. […]

President Donald Trump said on Saturday night the United States is not “in that much of a hurry” to sign a negotiated deal with Iran as the president weighs launching a fresh wave of strikes against the terrorist-sponsoring nation following the midterm elections. When asked if there’s a “timeframe for the Qatari-mediated negotiations” while fielding […]

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said on Saturday that President Donald Trump agreed to grant a visa to the mother of a teenager who was shot and killed in the Bronx on Thursday. 15-year-old Javits Frimpong, who moved from Ghana to live with his father roughly a year ago, was shot in the abdomen […]