Didn’t anyone think this through?

The injury of a former Green Beret and death of an elite soldier from New Zealand have highlighted the Blackwater founder’s growing role in one of Africa’s most intractable conflicts.

The public execution of Nidal Hasan would put America in extremely poor company.

The Frontier and ProPublica revealed that state regulators had approved the well in Enid, Oklahoma, in violation of rules meant to protect municipal groundwater. Now the well is permanently shut down.

The violence sweeping the country isn’t about schools anymore.

People around the president are using their roles to cash in. They learned it by watching him.

Tariffs added 2.9 percentage points to inflation in 67 categories of goods by February 2026, researchers at the New York Federal Reserve found.

In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe of politicians including Sen. Susan Collins — until Trump gutted the unit in charge. ProPublica has revealed the ...

Samuel Alito’s efforts to revamp the conservative legal philosophy reveal that a new movement is ascendant.

Two Florida women had to attend virtual court hearings while in labor to argue for their right to choose their own medical care. As their state pushes to expand some types of medical freedom, it has a...

ProPublica’s reporting reveals for the first time the extent of the White House’s role in trying to dictate how mail-in ballots are processed, spurring behind-the-scenes drama that played out for near...

A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.

A conversation with Jacob Weisberg

Could a new populist movement help save American democracy?

The Jack Smith “gotcha” was a Faceplant for the Ages.

After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...

The compromise, if confirmed, would be the latest in a string of cybersecurity failures at the F.B.I., which said it was investigating the matter.

New Jersey officials said that the natural gas-powered generators, each the size of a tractor-trailer, were operating without permits.

The full contours of the deal were unclear, but Denmark and Greenland both indicated they expected an agreement to be signed soon.

A service run from Latvia offers payment for short, social-media-friendly clips designed to look like grassroots GOP support.

The historian believed that empowering the people would improve society. History hasn’t always proved him right.

The Venezuela operation is the purest distillation of his amoral foreign policy.

University of Florida professor Christopher McCurdy has accepted travel reimbursements, donations to his university’s foundation and funding for symposiums from the American Kratom Association. None o...

Rather than investigate a buzzy fintech startup for throwing users’ accounts into chaos, the Russell Vought-led Consumer Financial Protection Bureau trusted that the company was “back on track.” Custo...

In 1950s Kentucky, anti-Communist demagoguery prefigured Donald Trump and his authoritarian MAGA movement today.

Specific reporters from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg were not granted credentials to cover the meeting of financial leaders next week in Asheville, N.C.

Claudia Rankine’s new book overflows with grief for the backlash to racial progress, but history isn’t finished.

Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their de...

A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.

Inflation continues to dominate the issue landscape, and drag down the president