During the first Trump era, the resistance engaged in soaring rhetoric about unity — then fell apart. Will this time be ...

Somewhat lost to history in our memory and mythology of the founding fathers is the fact that their optimism regarding their ...

Mr. Shachtman’s essay about horse racing gave short shrift to the sport’s upside, including its positive economic impact.

On the five-year anniversary of Covid, a look at the ways we vowed our lives and relationships would change afterward — and ...

The real danger wasn’t the stream but what lay beyond — where it spilled into the ocean and the currents were treacherous. On ...

When a political leader wants to move a democracy toward a more authoritarian form of government, he often sets out to ...

Patrick Healy, the deputy Opinion editor, hosted an online conversation with the Times Opinion columnists M. Gessen, Tressie ...

The party’s split over supporting a spending extension to avert a lapse in government funding boiled down to a practical ...

BENJAMINE DREYER, the author of “Dreyer’s English,” speaking of style changes The New Yorker, slow to make concessions to the internet age, announced. But the magazine will keep diereses above certain ...

A generational divide, seen in newer lawmakers’ impatience with bipartisanship and for colleagues who don’t understand new ...

Also: Cate Blanchett in “Black Bag”; Felix Mendelssohn’s overlooked sister, at the Morgan Library; uncovered songs by “Rent” ...

Former New York Times Beijing bureau chief Jane Perlez and editorial page editor James Dao discuss why China is so important ...