Some musicians and bands just can’t help but pack their music with intricate chord structures, epic key changes, experimental methods, and surreal lyrics. In other words, they love to create ...

This is Work in Progress, a newsletter about work, technology, and how to solve some of America’s biggest problems. Sign up here. In its earliest decades, the United States was celebrated for its ...

Devon Powers says there is one significant data point no one has considered in the debate around 2025’s Song of the Summer, or rather, why there doesn’t really seem to be one this year: Donald Trump.

The experiment was simple; so too, you may have thought, was the task. Students of literature at two American universities were given the first paragraphs of “Bleak House” by Charles Dickens and asked ...