From scenarios presented in Fighter Not Killer, an app that is used by militant groups, including the Islamic State, to test combatants’ knowledge of international humanitarian law. The app was…

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By Rachel Cusk, from Transit, a novel that was published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Cusk is the author of eight previous novels, most recently Outline (2014).

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From letters mailed last year to Gettysburg National Military Park by visitors who had taken rocks from the site as souvenirs.

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What informants taught an intelligence officer

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Returning home to Flint

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Israel’s economic settlers in the West Bank

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On family, fate, and Packers football

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In troubles with money

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A clandestine war on wolves

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A young writer finds his voice on the radio

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Some writers begin to write with talent, quickly earn a reputation among readers and critics, and then are suddenly silenced forever. We had two such men at the Yiddish Writers’…

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Until the U.S. government got wind of it, the sharpest critic of the Mormon practice of polygamy was Joseph Smith’s legal wife, Emma. But as Laurel Thatcher Ulrich explains in…

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The allure of animal nature

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Zadie Smith and the limits of being oneself

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Researchers concluded that who is president is the largest factor in U.S. income inequality. U.S. health-care costs rise in part because the system does not put a monetary value on…

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