At first glance, Democratic performance in last year’s House races was great. But a close look under the hood reveals that, with a few smarter moves and a little more luck, we’d have Speaker Jeffries.

From Stanford to Silicon Valley, a small town in California spread tech’s gospel of data and control.

The new Democratic governor is setting a moderate tone for her early days in office, but trouble is already brewing with the state GOP.

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See how well you tell apart the fabulists from “Seinfeld” and Congress.

The great grand strategist of the Cold War believed he failed in his most important task.

Media coverage of campus speech controversies focuses almost solely on elite, coastal schools. But what about the rest of the country? A report from an array of higher education institutions nationwide

The Texas-based group 40 Days for Life has brought its aggressive tactics to more than 1,000 cities in 65 countries.

A new biography traces Rhys’s life of self-sabotage, excess, and devotion to art.

After a banner year for organizing the retail and service industries, workers are learning a hard truth about labor negotiations.

Two years in, how well has Biden kept his 2020 promises on foreign policy?

An on-the-ground report on the movement trying to rewrite the Constitution—and arm supporters along the way

Katherine Clark is now the highest-ranking woman in Congress. Will she and the new Democrats atop the House remake the party, or just carry on the last generation’s legacy?

The Netflix adaptation of Don DeLillo’s novel makes a thoroughly American spectacle of suffering.

How the consulting firm’s cost-cutting logic devoured America