The cases of Elizabeth Holmes and Sam Bankman-Fried at least offered a pleasant sense of comeuppance. But in Musk v. Altman, to root against Tweedledum was effectively to root for Tweedledee.

Senator John Cornyn is trying to fight off Texass attorney general,Ken Paxton, in a battle to see how far right the state can be pushed. James Talarico, the Democratic nominee, may benefit.

The prize, for a Profile of the far-right blogger Curtis Yarvin, follows recent recognition for the magazines celebrity photography by Gilian Laub.

More than six months after the U.S.-negotiated ceasefire, Israel still controls more than half the territory in Gaza, and Hamas refuses to disarm.

The G.O.P. picks a challenger to face Jon Ossoff in the U.S. Senate election; and a Trump-backed lieutenant governor tries to hold off a billionaire challenger in the Republican primary for governor.

As the number of new high-school graduates drops, colleges will close, some will merge, and others may change beyond recognition.

A race to replace Mitch McConnell in the U.S. Senate and Thomas Massie tries to hold on to his seat in Kentuckys Fourth Congressional District.

Why has a Republican contest in Kentucky become the most expensive House primary of all time?

The Israeli Prime Ministers government is bringing radical change to the countrys democratic institutions.

A young girl was brought from Guinea to a wealthy suburb near Dallas. She spent the next sixteen years of her life in forced servitude.

The annual draft is watched by millions, and analyzed by a set of professional and amateur prognosticators. Still, it comes down to a crapshoot.

The Trump Administration has started repaying more than a hundred and fifty billion dollars to companies that paid its import duties. So far, most of their customers are still waiting to see much benefit.

An unprecedented gerrymandering effort led by Donald Trumpand internal divisions among Democratshas made the Minority Leaders path to victory harder than ever.

Their electoral prospects are finally improving, but opportunities can quickly give way to divisions. Does the Party have a plan?

Boots Rileys zany movies combine pop aesthetics with radical politics.

Pitchers like Jacob Misiorowski are throwing harder than ever, a result of modern baseballs pitching development. But what does that kind of velocity do to the human arm?

Bill Cassidy tries to defend his seat against a Trump-endorsed challenger; congressional races are postponed in the wake of the Louisiana v. Callais decision.

The Presidents talks with Xi Jinping, whose leadership style he seems to envy, yielded potential deals for airplanes and soybeans but no apparent agreement on Iran.

Nate Cohn, the New York Times chief political analyst, on whether the Democrats can match the G.O.P. in the fight over redistricting.

The President swept off to Beijing to court Xi Jinping. Back Stateside, it was non-Presidential motorcades, video games, and a languid vibe at the White House.

After a disastrous set of election results, the British Prime Ministers authority is in tatters.

What happened when the Trump Administration turned its back on the worlds most vulnerable.

The wall is opposed by environmental groups, local sheriffs, and a pro-gun YouTuber running for Congress. Its happening anyway.

A law passed after Watergate makes Presidential records government property. The Trump Administration has declared it unconstitutional.

Pedro Snchez, the Socialist Prime Minister, has led the European opposition to the Iran war from the start.

Mark Burns, an evangelical pastor, explains that Trumps supporters dont think of him as a godlike figure, even as the President posts pictures of himself as Jesus.

Rooting for a hapless team for nearly two decades teaches you to find pleasures beyond victory.

He was somewhere in the South Atlantic when a friend texted him about an outbreak on a cruise: Please tell me youre not on this ship.

How do you bring an American-history textbook up to date when the countrys past has become a political battleground?

How President Trumps approach to the war in Iran is turning endless conflict, interrupted by fleeting pauses, into the status quo.

Universities have become generic, one professor and former dean argues. In the A.I. era, students may demand something they cant get elsewhere.

Stanley Richards brings faith in reform and his own experience of incarceration to an ongoing crisis.

Loved for its cheap seats and derided for its extremely low-frills flights, the American company was arguably a victim of its own success.

Nearly two dozen kids were found at risk of abuse and neglect. Will their parents be held accountable?

A change in New Yorks post-season offense has made the team more precise, more urgent, and much harder to stop as it pushes toward the Eastern Conference Finals.

After decades of false starts, a new rail line has opened along the citys most congested boulevard.

In his first substantial conversation with a foreign journalist since being elected, the new Prime Minister promised, We dont want to build a power machine.

Keir Starmers unpopularity has led Labour to a humiliating defeat in local elections. Now, with five major parties competing for votes, the far right could be well positioned for a general-election victory.

Who would have thought that Leo XIV would make so much history so fast?

Drone attacks, internet blackouts, and a sudden downturn in the economy have marked one of the worst stretches for Vladimir Putin since the start of the war in Ukraine.