Using bogus scandals and funding crunches, Republicans across the country are decimating public education.

Branko Milanovic and Guido Alfani study inequality over the course of human history. The results are not good.

In the run-up to a presidential election with dire climate implications, can activists afford to demonize Democrats? Can they afford not to?

Ted Cruz, Matt Gaetz, and Mike Johnson all have podcasts. They’re terrible.

Despite attacks from their colleagues, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her peers are part of a proud tradition of influential legislators who moved their party left.

Fox News has never been more nakedly partisan. Can Biden fend off the network as he battles Trump for reelection?

Benny Safdie, Nathan Fielder, and Emma Stone take social awkwardness to the most painful levels TV has ever seen.

Bargaining-table negotiations over a first contract are never easy, but now they’re becoming excruciatingly slow and difficult. For companies like Trader Joe’s, that’s the goal.

In Ukraine, Biden has spent two years articulating a stirring argument for a rules-based order. In Israel, he set about burning that argument to the ground. Is a morally consistent foreign policy possible?

Todd Haynes took the story of a tabloid scandal and made it something much stranger.

You can call the United Daughters of the Confederacy a lot of things. But racist? Why, some of their best friends …

Judge the author of the “Feminine Mystique” not by the gains she made, but by her experience.

Twenty-two years ago, three union leaders for mine workers employed by an American company were killed. The murders have gone unsolved. But now the Colombian government is prosecuting two company executives for financing the paramilitary group responsible for the killings.

Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt explained “How Democracies Die.” Then they decided to look even deeper.

The pugilistic anti-tax group is feuding with the GOP’s most powerful figure—and getting pummeled.

New Hampshire is tailor-made for Trump’s opponents—but they’re blowing their best chance to stop him.

His incoherent attacks on critical race theory are only one part of a much larger plan for counterrevolution.

They’re both boring. They’re both pious. They both have glasses. Can you tell them apart?