Trump won Michigan by around 80,000 votes—and urban Wayne County accounts for virtually all of it. Yes, the explanation starts with the Arab American vote. But it hardly ends there.

Economics, culture, and media. Economics, culture, and media. Economics, culture, and media. Got it?

Delaware’s newest member of Congress is its first-ever openly transgender member. Why doesn’t she talk about it more?

Donald Trump tried and failed to play it cool.

The Nobel laureate’s new novel “We Do Not Part” grapples with an atrocity and the difficulties of bearing witness.

As critics focus on Trump’s attacks on the media, his administration is preparing a larger assault on the First Amendment.

“Bibliophobia” is the story of an all-consuming, sometimes destructive passion for books and reading.

The Apple TV+ show is middling as a corporate satire but profound as a mystery box.

Incarcerated firefighters play a crucial role in a state where wildfires seemingly get worse every year. But the state’s shifting politics may stymie efforts at reform.

In the philosopher’s world, provocation and controversy are inseparable from the examined life.

At the heart of “Our Evenings” is the recognition that Britain had something beautiful once and threw it all away.

The city is the epicenter of an anti-progressive movement—financed by the ultrawealthy—that aims to blur political lines and centralize power for the long term. For some, their ambitions don’t stop there.

Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett each had a different vision of reproductive freedom. Would reproductive rights be more secure if Dennett’s had prevailed?

Artificial intelligence is coming to warfare. Can it learn ethics?

Emmanuel Carrère chronicled the trial of the perpetrators of the November 2015 attacks on Paris. It makes a sharp contrast with the United States’ efforts at Guantanamo.

The authors of the bestselling “How Democracies Die” talk with editor Michael Tomasky about what kind of mark four more years of Donald Trump might leave on this democracy.

Most other European nations have welcomed back the blameless children of parents who went off to fight with ISIL. But not France. What is Emmanuel Macron so afraid of?