The minute we make any decision—I think COVID-19 is serious; no, I’m sure it is a hoax—we begin to justify the wisdom of our choice and find reasons to dismiss the alternative.

Roger Stone’s best trick was always his upper-class-twit wardrobe. He seemed such a farcical character, such a Klaxon-alarm-from-a-mile-away goofball—who could take him seriously? Aldrich Ames, Robert Hanssen: They had tradecraft. They didn’t troll p

The Alabama Democrat Doug Jones discusses the coronavirus outbreak in the South, new efforts to grapple with the region’s Confederate legacy, and his hopes that this time of crisis leads to systemic change.

As to Trump’s claim to what his legal team once characterized as “temporary absolute presidential immunity,” the Supreme Court’s answer was simple: No.

“I think Trump is fair game for ridicule. Why do I think this? Because it drives him nuts.”

Like the one-child policy, Beijing’s repressive actions against minority Uighur Muslims are about preserving power.

In the summer of 1945, for 17 days, the newspaper deliverers of New York City went on strike. As hundreds of thousands of city residents found themselves temporarily deprived of their daily papers, the behavioral scientist Bernard Berelson saw an opp

Like millions of other workers, Bridgit Fatora was facing a financial abyss. Before the pandemic hit, she was a freelance photographer and part-time nanny in Seattle. The coronavirus made both of her jobs untenable. Her photography bookings disappear

White, conservative Christians who set aside the tenets of their faith to support Donald Trump are now left with little to show for it.

On March 1, California seemed destined to be pummeled by the coronavirus. America’s most populous state has large, crowded cities and a diverse population, and travel between it and Asia and Europe is prodigious. Seattle, another West Coast hub, had

During the Civil War, Union soldiers in the West weren’t fighting to end slavery, but to annihilate and remove Native Americans.

“With friendship, there is this expectation that it’s supposed to be easy, which … is not an honest assessment of what any long-term, intimate bond looks like.”

Palm Springs is set during a never-ending day. Sorry to give away the big plot point, which comes some 15 minutes into Max Barbakow’s wonderful new comedy, but that premise feels pertinent today in a way that it didn’t when the movie premiered at Sun

The Supreme Court handed a victory to the president while cloaking its reasoning in majestic language about the rule of law.

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There’s a dangerous backlash against free speech brewing this week, in which a vindictive Twitter user, backed by mobs of followers, seeks to cow open discourse and instill fear in people who disagree with him. Wait—don’t go! I’m not talking about Th

Forget Bernie Kerik, Scooter Libby, Michael Milken—even Sheriff Joe Arpaio. This was the presidential reprieve President Donald Trump’s critics feared most. Trump’s move tonight to commute the sentence of his longtime associate Roger Stone, nearly fi

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Donald Trump, the man, lost at the Supreme Court. But Donald Trump, the candidate, can claim victory. Our writers explain.

The country’s prestigious grandes écoles illustrate the gulf between its universal ideals and its day-to-day life.

Gina Prince-Bythewood talks about her new superhero film, Netflix’s The Old Guard, and how women are changing the genre.

As America continues its long-overdue reckoning with racism and systemic injustice, we must address the devastating impact of the disease on the Black community.

If we move too fast, ignore science, or reopen without careful planning, this will backfire.

A historian imagines the chapter high schoolers might read one day about this momentous time.

He’s trying to assemble a winning coalition with a dwindling number of sympathetic white voters.

The gap between soaring cases and falling deaths is being weaponized by the right to claim a hollow victory in the face of shameless failure. What’s really going on?

The president may eventually face legal liability, but he will not face a public reckoning for his actions before November.

It takes a special kind of inattention to human suffering to not notice how unfortunate it is that people have been left to face death alone.

From his financial disclosures to his tax returns to impeachment, the president is finding that stonewalling pays off.

The pandemic has already taken a toll on the careers of those with young children—particularly mothers.