Spend 47 days in the art world with Seen. Lyle Ashton Harris, Nocturnal Guardian #1, 2018. Photo: Courtesy of the artist and Salon 94 Lyle Ashton Harris’s solo exhibition, “Flash of the Spirit,” at Salon…

One of Trump’s midterm rallies. Photo: Mark Peterson/Redux The year is 2019. California’s new governor, Gavin Newsom, recently elected on a platform that included support for the creation of a single-payer health-care system, now must…

Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images Even before the new Democratic House arrives in Washington, the narrative has already been set: Angry Trump-hating Democrats are going to risk their party’s standing by forcing their leaders to impeach…

Photo: Lucy von Held/Blend Images/Getty Images You might think that a study demonstrating that venture capital-funded “unicorns” are overvalued, and by a stunning 48 percent on average, would shake up the industry. Yet “Squaring Venture…

Illustration: Intelligencer A Twitter mystery is afoot! The official Fox News Twitter account hasn’t tweeted since November 8; the last activity on its Fox Business counterpart is dated November 9. Conspiratorially minded Twitter brainiacs have…

Photo: Brent Lewis/Denver Post via Getty Images On November 6, the total number of cannabis-friendly states rose to 33, as voters in Michigan passed a bill allowing recreational marijuana use, and Missouri and Utah —…

Photo: NBC/Will Heath/NBC Last weekend, much to the delight of SNL viewers, Kate McKinnon revived one of her bawdy recurring characters, Ms. Rafferty, a.k.a. the woman who experiences some pretty traumatic extraterrestrial encounters compared to…

Resist the resistance to the #resistance. Photo: Larry French/Getty Images In 2016, the Democrats sought a third consecutive term in the White House, amid mediocre economic growth, and solid — but unspectacular — levels of…