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Ms. Swift plays a different game on her sixth album — making pop music that directly competes with the rest of the field’s dominant players. A panel discussion, on Popcast.

Tuesday: A Senate committee steps aside, a battle over free speech, and walking through Los Angeles.

A stage adaptation, directed by Ivo van Hove, confirms the prophecy of a 1976 movie about populist rage and manipulative technology

Tuesday: Talking to Daniel Humm of Eleven Madison Park, the Brooklyn Podcast festival, and readers respond to subway announcements.

Here’s what you need to know to start your day.

A Times correspondent reflects on Lebanon’s feelings, earnest and ironic, for Saad Hariri.

The party’s Senate candidate in Alabama has called sexual misconduct accusations against him a Democratic plot. The majority leader urged him to quit.

Algorithms are shaping our lives. Where’s academia when it comes to helping us make sense of this?

Margaret Childs Westmoreland, the daughter of Gen. William Westmoreland, was 9 years old when she joined him in South Vietnam.

Looking for a political figure on the American scene to give conservatives hope.

The former vice president sharply criticized President Trump, but declined to say whether he himself would run for president in 2020.

Jonathan Lethem reviews Kevin Young’s “Bunk,” a new book that traces the American fondness for plagiarists, hoaxes and, yes, fake news.

A psychopathic construction worker, a violently overprotective father and an adolescent girl form a dangerous triangle in “Heather, the Totality.”

A New Hampshire State Police investigator sought arrest warrants last year for two deans of the elite boarding school, but they were not arrested or prosecuted.

Visit Aayuraa Studio in Northern Canada and listen to its founder, Mathew Nuqingaq, who was named to the Order of Canada, talk about the stories of the jewelry he makes.

The insurgent media company has built a devoted following of what it sees as “average” sports fans: unruly, occasionally toxic and aggressively male.

In a letter to the House Judiciary Committee, the Justice Department said it planned to pursue the possibility of appointing a special counsel to investigate the Uranium One deal.

Here’s what you need to know to start your day.

Managing rapid change wrought by politics, technology and social media is testing the business world’s best and brightest.

Members of the populist Five Star Movement, which came in No. 2 in regional voting, are neither real reformers nor harmless buffoons.