You’re reading Global Notes, Ishaan Tharoor’s weekly column on international politics. The inauguration of Colombia’s new far-right President, Abelardo de la Espriella, was attended by a cast of his ...

In December, 1996, Bill Clinton, having just won a second term as President, repeatedly asked Terry McAuliffe, his top fund-raiser, to consider stepping into the role of chairman of the Democratic ...

Triage,” Claudia Rankine’s new book, opens at a scene of inquisition. At a podium, under a spotlight, a theorist is asked a ...

Last month, the image of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo being pinned to the ground, his torso pierced by a bullet, became the latest evocation of that history. Salgado was fifty-two, and had been living in ...

You’re reading our Flash Fiction series, very short stories posted weekly during the summer. God alone knows why I limp. My right leg is considerably shorter than ...

In March, I accompanied an international team of scientists on an expedition to one of the deepest places that humans have ever visited, a few hours outside Johannesburg, South Africa. Before sunrise, ...

Sign up to receive our twice-weekly News & Politics newsletter. The journalist Michelle Lhooq joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss her reporting on ibogaine, a psychedelic ...

Francesca Hong’s rise in Wisconsin was supposed to portend a major breakthrough for the left. Her narrow loss should still be a wake-up call for the Party’s establishment.

Peggy Flanagan wins the state’s Democratic primary for U.S. Senate; Mike Lindell, a close ally to President Donald Trump, loses the Republican gubernatorial primary.

The Chief Justice insists that his Supreme Court isn’t biased even as it keeps making dramatic leaps rightward.

Rob Tregenza’s new film, “Fast”—96 minutes of cinema made in rural Virginia with no more than a few dozen long takes and a ...

The Democratic electorate is already moving left, but that may be nothing compared with what happens when unemployment really ...