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.

Although she has been something of a Putin apologist, Tillis fell in line with 51 of his Republican colleagues in the Senate ...

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 ...

Privately, many Senate Democrats conceded that their leader was doing his job by protecting his members from a tough vote and ...