In this week’s Elie v. U.S., our justice correspondent asks why the media is obsessing over Obama’s Cheesecake Factory joke while largely ignoring allegations of Trump’s sexual assaults. Plus: ...

The senator is mounting a relentless, urgent campaign to stop Trump, elect progressives, and transform US politics.

In Michigan, Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed has been dogged by the sore-loser behavior of centrist Democrats who can’t abide the fact he won the primary. In particular, his defeated rival ...

The new competitive circuit captures the energy and DIY spirit of punk, while promoting a surprisingly sturdy vision of civic belonging.

As part of a Trump-led gerrymandering effort, North Carolina GOP leaders redrew the state’s congressional district map in ...

For both Russia and Ukraine, the war has taken a staggering toll and poses an ever-greater danger of spreading.

The Brazilian left has stopped the right-wing wave in Latin America. Now it has four years to work out a succession plan.

In their new book, economists Arjun Jayadev and J.W. Mason examine the peculiar role money plays in shaping human life.

The world’s richest man—saying he’s “wised up” to the fiction of self-government—is leveraging his wealth to sway elections, threaten Congress, and alter the global balance of power.

When the beloved science publication got too political, its corporate owners stepped in. Now its future is uncertain.

The high court has just accepted a case that takes aim at efforts to increase diversity at high-performing public schools.

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva addresses supporters during a victory rally after winning a fourth term in the presidential runoff on Paulista Avenue in São Paulo, Brazil, Sunday, October 25, 2026 ...