The long read: The Emirati royal is increasingly influential on the world stage. Some see him as a visionary. Others compare him to a Bond villain. Who is he?

President’s tariffs have hurt fishers, loggers and others in a state with deep bonds to Canada – will Mainers show their displeasure in the midterms?

ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until President Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series o...

Scott Reed, a longtime Washington lobbyist who has a close relationship with Senator Susan Collins of Maine, leads a super PAC backing her campaign.

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The I.R.S. lost roughly a quarter of its employees since President Trump took office, hampering the agency’s ability to conduct audits.

More than 50 years ago, a future writer and a future president played baseball together at the New York Military Academy.

The leadership vacuum comes as the Army is trying to adapt to a new kind of war dominated by deadly drones.

Kate Bronfenbrenner, who retired this year from Cornell University, has studied how workers win unions, how employers stop them, and how organizers can learn from one another for four decades. Her fin...

The state has accused the government in a lawsuit of retaliating after the conviction of Tina Peters, a Trump supporter. An administration official convened a group to discuss “immediate actions.”

Flaming chunks of metal crash into homes, farms and parking lots. Who’s to blame? And who pays for the damage?

The bastion of American conservatism best known for Project 2025 has been consumed by an ideological — and generational — civil war.

Like Gulliver in Lilliput, “greatness” in the political realm depends on the existence of a group deemed puny or weak.

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Pete Hegseth is the product of an essentially American ethos—which means we have no choice but to ask what to do with him, and what to do with ourselves.

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Willem Marx speaks to pardoners, pardonees, and the as-yet-unpardoned, from a Bush-era CIA leaker struggling for salvation to reality TV’s favorite criminal couple.

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Explore 5 lesser-known yet impactful symptoms of dementia in our Surprising Symptoms of Dementia series. From hiding belongings to hypersexual behaviors, discover the challenges these symptoms pose fo...

More than 50 years ago, a future writer and a future president played baseball together at the New York Military Academy.

Forget the comparisons to fascists and autocrats. The most accurate model for understanding the transactional tough guy in the White House is the politically connected underbelly of 1970s and ’80s New...