The contest for an obscure political office partly responsible for administering elections has become the race behind the race, with stakes that could determine the Presidency.

Four years ago, the Democrats made big promises to address racial and economic injustice. Will voters remember?

A new history asks what can be gained from trying to understand the personalities of Hitler and his followers.

New technologies are raising suspicions about students’ work, but the controversy—like so many others swirling around American classrooms—misses the point of what we want our kids to learn.

The Vice-President and her advisers clearly believe that being accused of flip-flopping is a lesser threat to her campaign than being cast as too radical.

The player known as Queenwen won Olympic Gold, and is moving through the early rounds of the U.S. Open.

It’s hard to empirically determine whether they drive voters to the polls. But they might have less measurable effects.

The Barefoot Contessa looks back at a career built on fantasies of comfort and plenty.

I thought that the e-mailed invitation was spam. “Nice try, Russia,” I said to my laptop screen. But the Pope really did want to meet with comics and humorists.

The A.I. revolution is coming to a pharmacy near you.

An Austrian heiress recruited fifty people from all walks of life to redistribute twenty-five million euros—if they could agree on how to spend it.

Since COVID, many professors have become more flexible about due dates. But some teachers believe that the way to address student anxiety is more deadlines, not fewer.

Hamas’s killing of six hostages in Gaza, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly delayed a ceasefire deal, has provoked major protests and a renewed sense of crisis.

On “Comrade Kamala” and the ex-President’s last-century approach to winning in 2024.

The elections analyst Dave Wasserman assesses Black support for Donald Trump and explains a state-level primary that’s a national bellwether.

A lead-poisoning scandal in Oakland underscores a growing sense of hopelessness among families who are committed to school integration.

At campaign stops in southeastern Georgia and New Hampshire, the Democratic candidate tried to win voters in counties outside her party’s strongholds.

The N.F.L. season kicked off with a victory for the Kansas City Chiefs, but dynasties are boring. What might shake things up?

The podcast investigates the events in Haditha, Iraq, and compiles a database to show the inherent problem of the military judging its own members.

“Playground,” Powers’s new novel, aims to do for the oceans what “The Overstory” did for trees, shaking us out of our human exceptionalism.