Here’s your guide to the heroes and villains—plus a list of the 50 most banned books.

Some are already hardcore progressives. And pollsters, politicians, and analysts from both parties say it may just be a matter of time before the rest switch parties, too.

Artificial intelligence once promised to make us healthier and wealthier. Now, we’re faced with either gimmicky chatbots or total annihilation.

The pandemic. The mass shootings. Insurrection. Trump. We've been through so much. What if our entire national character is a trauma response?

Those Bud Light protests just scratched the surface. The right wing is constructing an entire parallel economy, from its own coffee to its own banks.

The burgeoning group, which has scored hundreds of school board election victories, is busy drafting more “joyful warriors” to take control of the Republican agenda.

It was once (mostly) traditionally conservative and (sort of) intellectually rigorous. Now it platforms white nationalists and promotes authoritarianism.

Bernie and AOC helped build a formidable movement. Since Biden took office, we’ve seen its reach—and its limits.

So far, America’s plan seems to consist of walling off wealthy neighborhoods with hulking gray fortifications and leaving lower-income areas out to dry. It doesn’t have to be like this.

To the right, it’s a “clean” alternative to abortion—mothers can just drop their babies off in fire station boxes. And it’s spreading across the country. How did a desperate and once criminal act get turned into a good thing?

Grieving parents are at risk of becoming mere props in the latest chapter of America's twisted war on drugs.

Not “best.” Not “favorite.” Not “most likable.” Most significant. Some are obvious. Some obscure. A few will be controversial. Let the debate begin.

Our—incomplete—guide to the list’s oversights, travesties, and glaring omissions

It’s about revolution. Or elections. It can be a thriller. Or a comedy. It’s a movie whose politics we love. It’s a movie whose politics we detest. It’s even, sometimes, a zombie movie.

Buoyed by the right-wing Supreme Court, Christian groups are laying the groundwork for public schools to veer back toward the 1960s.

A massive pork plant known for labor violations called the police on a disgruntled employee. Then a co-worker started filming.

He loves an America of his twisted imagination. He hates—and fears—the America that actually exists. And if he gets back to the White House ... look out.

America needs to know who Barre Seid is, what kind of country he wants, and just how massive an impact his $1.6 billion gift can have on our political discourse.

Is the Supreme Court willing to unleash legal chaos to defeat Biden’s loan cancellation program?

“No-go zones.” Extremist rallies at the Reichstag. Asylum seekers facing harassment. Inside the rising threat posed by the German far right.