How a right-wing smear campaign tried to silence the reality of Thomas Jefferson’s life, and in some ways succeeded.

Leave it to the president that makes us nostalgic for Nixon-era corruption to claim that a law Nixon made necessary is no longer a law. The Presidential Records Act was summoned into existence by Nixon's resignation and his subsequent efforts to destroy records generated by his office as he was fumbling his way towards impeachment. It's only fitting that the only president to challenge this law is someone who makes Nixon's corruption look semi-competent.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that creates a list of verified eligible voters nationwide.

Just 51 of these whales are left on Earth. Trump officials may have just doomed them.

First things first: Meta is a terrible company that has spent years making terrible decisions and being terrible at explaining the challenges of social media trust & safety, all while prioritiz…

Vital Arctic sea ice shrank to tie its lowest measured level for the winter, the season when ice grows, as a warming Earth shattered records across the continents.

In the business of immigration detention, researchers say, "bad food is the business model."

A week ago I asked whether global energy markets have “Trump Derangement...

Carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere and absorbed by water lowers its pH level, making the ocean more acidic and less able to sustain life. In 2009 a group of scientists included this ocean aci...

The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressiv...

The agency announced it is repealing its 2009 conclusion that greenhouse gases warm the Earth and endanger human health and well-being.

A bizarro rule formally justifies politicizing public services

In the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact: The culture war is an actual war.

Since the start of this year, actions by the Administration have made clear that it intends to accelerate its already unprecedented and illegal efforts to punish residents of states President Trump co...

The court’s conservatives appear likely to block trump from firing Lisa Cook—not because they care about principle but because they care about the Fed.

Newly available videos and existing footage synchronized and assessed by The Times provides a millisecond-by-millisecond look at how an ICE officer ended up shooting and killing a motorist in Minneapo...

In this week’s Elie v. US, The Nation’s justice correspondent explores the authoritarian threat beneath Trump’s bonuses for military families. Plus, a case for getting rid of the Second Amendment.

Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency.

Paramount and Bari Weiss aren't off to a great start. Here's why David Ellison should change course.