These new buildings only serve to normalize trauma and fear.

Are his principles for a just society enough today?

The American right's unyielding ardor for federal power

The word is used to describe disposable plastic diapers as well as the most ambitious climate legislation ever proposed. So what good is it?

The rhetorical obsession with single mothers obscures the root cause of racial inequality.

Why the far-right pushes the lie that black Americans fought as Confederate soldiers

How a shadowy consortium controls the evolution of emoji

The president needs to win Michigan again, but many of his supporters there hate the education secretary.

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How a media mogul defined class and invented the modern magazine

California’s Katie Porter studied under Elizabeth Warren. Now she’s going viral by schooling Republicans on Capitol Hill.

Since their company, Purdue Pharma, released OxyContin in 1996, almost half a million Americans have died from opioid overdoses.

Inside the effort to rescue Europe’s unwelcome immigrants

The end of history, 30 years on

How feminist performance artists found a way to express the trauma of sexual violence

Trump is accusing the network of disloyalty, but he's missing the point.

The Nobel Prize–winning novelist recasts our relationship with the environment.

Bong Joon-ho’s shapeshifting new film is a thriller about global inequality and resentment.