The former Presidents riff on Saddam Hussein, the Cheesecake Factory, and our gold-besotted leader was not only funny but politically brilliant.

A visual tour of the Place de la Rpublique, a site of protests and political conflict in Paris for the past hundred and fifty years.

In India, a group of uncles plan to subvert the A.I. that is replacing them, in a mockumentary that celebrates the weirdness of regular intelligence.

The Texas Democrat has stretched his closing message to encompass Beyonc, the Biblical David, and Friday Night Lights. Is that what it takes to flip the state?

Adam Hamiltons campaign tests whether Democrats can find religion.

After Brazils election, and ahead of the U.S. midterms, progressives and liberals around the world find cause to celebrate.

As the President and his party launch a wave of bigoted attacks on Abdul El- Sayed, Bishara Bahbah reflects on what, exactly, Trump has delivered in his second term.

Democrats around the country dream of a blue wave in Texas. Organizersand voters say they need more of an irrigation system. Can the Party leaders build it?

Two years ago,Sherrod Brown, who built his career as an avatar of blue-collar frustration, lost his Senate seatin Ohio as working-class voters defected to Trump. Now heand his partyare looking to make up lost ground.

Facing severe political attacks and threats, Muslim civil-liberties activists in Texas are urging their communities to vote.

A matchup between the Milwaukee Brewers and the Tampa Bay Rays was considered a nightmare, a bloodbath of small-ball hermeneutics. But the two old-school, thrifty teams have turned the Fall Classic into a showcase for what money cant buy.

In Switzerland, Thomas Rau offers treatments that many conventional doctors would question. Now hes accused of lethally negligent care.

Renzo Cozzas short film gives a classic monster a moral dilemma.

Since taking up his post in Paris, Kushner has become known for lobbing provocations onto Frances domestic scene at sensitive moments. As he put it, Nobody has the courage to say what I say.

The mountaineer and his partner, Hilaree Nelson, planned a first-ever descent. After her death, he pushed on.

Donald Trump has tried to purge voter rolls nationwide. Deidre Henderson, the Republican lieutenant governor of Utah, is among the chief election officers standing in his way.

Things were going poorly even before Vivek Ramaswamys campaign ran the most offensive ad of the year.

A candidates search for common ground raises hopes in Texas.

Tens of thousands of Israelis living abroad are flying back to cast votes in what many describe as the most pivotal election in the countrys history.

Widespread protests against his policies were followed by violent riots across the country. Does this mean Marine Le Pen is all but certain to be the next President of France?

Mary Peltola, whose campaign could determine whether the Democrats retake Congress, mostly just wants to talk about fish.

Algorithmic social media, which has helped create the conditions for the spread of such violence, is reckoning with how it can be part of the solution.

As Democrats midterm expectations soar, history advises only a lowercase, cautious optimism.

I dont like giving compliments to myself, the Italian driver says, but he may soon become Formula 1s youngest-ever champion.

Republicans eliminated the states only Black-majority district, in Memphis, so Pearson took a campaign about economic inequality to rural white voters.

The Democratic gubernatorial candidate argues that crony capitalism, distrust of data centers, and attacks on public education have disenchanted voters enough to finally bring a blue wave to the state.

In the run-up to the election, the Trump Administration is turning its immigration crackdown into a desperate hunt for voter fraud.

Brazils once towering leftist leader may soon be swept away by Latin Americas right-wing tide.

In an L.A. criminal court, new details emerge about the mysterious couple who collected more than twenty babies through surrogacy.

Jasper Nathaniel, an independent journalist who filmed the attack, describes the significant increase in West Bank violence on the eve of the Israeli election.

They power our phones, cars, dishwashersand the A.I. systems that prop up the economy. Theyre also at the heart of fierce geopolitical rivalry.

Richard Darman was my source in the Reagan and Bush Administrationsand my best friend.

Alarm about declining interest in books is perpetual. But, as bookselling reaches unexpected heights, James Daunt, the chief executive of Barnes & Noble, thinks a different future is at hand.

Members of the Democratic Socialists of America believe deeply in the possibility of a class revolution. Meanwhile, theyre running for officeand winning.

A competitive House race in Miami, which leads all American cities in ICE arrests, has revealed how mass deportations have eroded the Presidents support among Latinos.

The former White House communications director reflects on his record for occupational brevity being broken.

Rich Baris, a pollster supportive of the MAGA big tent, talks about how the President lost control of his movement, and why that spells disaster for Republicans.

The cases of Christa Pike and Nidal Hasan show how vanishingly fine the line is between a routine execution and an unbearable one.