To understand the history of the nation, look to the history of its sports.
Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.
Despite insisting that a $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund has been scrapped, the administration is quietly assuring allies that payout plans remain on track.
Prenatal testing is changing who gets born and who doesn’t. This is just the beginning.
How did the GOP become a haven for slogans and ideas straight out of the Third Reich?
The mild-mannered NBA commissioner has overseen a time of peace and prosperity for his league. Until now.
This year’s World Cup was framed as a festival of North American unity. Instead, the tournament is testing how much of that unity remains.
California’s slow vote-count is spawning conspiracy theories.
The sociologist Matthew Desmond believes that being poor is different in the U.S. than in other rich countries.
Professor David W. Blight on President Trump’s war on the Fourteenth Amendment. Plus: Brexit at 10 years and 1873 by Liaquat Ahamed.
Harsher penalties for teen offenders deny them the chance to become better adults.
The party wants to do things differently than Trump and better than Biden.
A collection of images of the varied shorelines, communities, and wildlife found along the Temperate Northern Pacific region stretching from North America to Japan
Scientists have spent years studying turf to keep it from spoiling the tournament.
Trump’s already notorious interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker was a rare up-close portrait of a presidential meltdown.
They could benefit from a diversity of hormones, empathy about their experience, and a frank approach to sexuality—all hallmarks of trans health care.
Newspaper columnists instructed generations of citizens about the Fourteenth Amendment. Today, the country seems to have forgotten how clear the law is.
Life in Venezuela was deceptively mundane. Then everything collapsed.
The Amazon show dares to dream that romantic love need not be a clash of wills.
Two months into the ceasefire, the Iranian economy lies in tatters.
A nation founded on the rejection of aristocratic traditions still yearns for them.
The Republicans are a threat to democracy. Stow the juvenile theatrics and take them seriously.
The Trump administration’s attacks on DEI are aimed at reversing the civil-rights movement.
The environment in which kids grow up today is hostile to human development.
Capturing the Revolutionary era in its complexity, contradictions, and ingenuity. Plus: A guide to the figures.
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