That the hotel tape is not by itself enough to convict the celebrity — of something — speaks to the system’s failures.

Congress is no longer in the business of thoughtful legislating. Its role has been reduced to putting political points on the board for the president.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Pediatricians like me are worried that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vaccine advisers will make it harder for children to get the shots they need.

The characters that dominated the end of the last millennium have an outsize influence on the current one.

Most people don’t expect to meet an Indigenous person on Martha’s Vineyard.

Genetics reunited the families of Argentina’s disappeared. President Javier Milei’s government is imperiling that.

His politicization of the name America taps into a long, well, American tradition, as old as the nation itself.

The regime is sending a chilling message: Dissent equals death.

It’s not an education if A.I. does your thinking for you.

Stretched out in the sunshine, even the flimsiest things radiate inner light.

Beijing must be delighted by how the U.S. is surrendering the future of electricity to it.

A substitute religion, it offers a sense of moral superiority and group membership.

Steven Rattner reveals the ugly reality lurking within the “big, beautiful bill.”

Seven writers on the best and worst provisions in Trump’s bill.

Readers voice outrage over appalling conditions in immigrant detention centers. Also: Paramount’s settlement; political violence; not pro bono.

A tax move from the Reagan era might explain what’s going on now.

What does it mean to be an American?

Grading how the Supreme Court has done so far in Trump 2.0.

His approach is a blueprint for the party’s campaigners everywhere.

It remains to be seen if Washington has learned enough of a lesson to destroy Iran’s remaining nuclear infrastructure.

We think of human rights abuses as wartime atrocities, but sometimes they involve what family members do to the people they love.

New York City’s surprising primary result has ramifications for the whole country.

The MSNBC anchor — and native New Yorker — Chris Hayes considers what Democrats can learn from the mayoral primary.

Readers criticize several aspects of the Trump policy bill. Also: In praise of U.S.A.I.D.

Despite everything, it is still possible to achieve a just end to the war in Ukraine.

How thinness as a virtue shifts from debauchery to conservatism.

Fighting the Fed, piling on tax cuts and pursuing a trade war will set American on an unsustainable path.

The case was about much more than abortion.