Some post-Covid symptoms may be produced by the brain. Does that make them any less real?

If McDonald’s is a real estate company that sells hamburgers, the U.C. system is a real estate company that sells degrees. Grad students are striking not least so they can afford to live where they work.

He didn’t give rail workers paid leave in legislation. But he can still do it through an executive order.

The hot new electoral subversion idea brewed up by the conservative legal movement may be too extreme for some of the Supreme Court’s conservatives.

Republicans have talked a good game about breaking up with Trump, but none seem to want to actually do it.

A look back from the future at how it all went so wrong

Officials from the war-torn nation estimate that as many as 2.8 million residents have been forcibly relocated to Russia since the invasion began.

The problem isn’t “polarization.” The problem is white supremacy.

Some Democrats hope to get a revived version of the popular policy into a government funding package. Here’s what needs to happen in the coming days for this plan to succeed.

The Democrats should have pushed the Hawkeye State to the back of the line decades ago.

Elon Musk and Matt Taibbi’s flashy revival of Laptopgate hasn’t illuminated much beyond the right’s desperation to salvage something from their October Surprise.

It’s also an individual one.

Maybe the United States was doomed from the start. And Jean-Jacques Rousseau can explain why.

The high court’s conservatives could alter protections for LGBTQ citizens based on a case whose plaintiff describes an entirely hypothetical injury.

The way to a stronger democracy starts with reforming our massive criminal justice system.

How a Netflix series about the hunt for the lost city of Atlantis became yet another front in the culture war—and the latest example of elite conservatives going weird.

Congratulations to everyone who didn’t spend the weekend thinking about the president’s son’s junk.

Fixing gerrymandering isn’t enough to build an equitable, multiracial society. We need dialogue.

Alas, we can’t fix this democracy without amending the U.S. Constitution. The process for that is almost impossible.

If you think that Republicans have learned any lessons from their disappointing midterm election showing, think again.