The auto-enrollment change replaces the previous structure, which required parents or guardians to sign up.

In Patrick deWitt’s “Dodge City,” a young man sets off for Canada to avoid serving in the Vietnam War.

“The American Way of Killing” examines America’s extraordinary tolerance for violence.

A wealthy pastor’s wife with secrets, ambition, and a wicked wit tells all in Deesha Philyaw’s smart, saucy first novel.

David F. Walbert’s lively new book traces America’s history of voter suppression right up to today — and tomorrow.

Speaker Mike Johnson summoned top GOP members to discuss suspending the gas tax, but the session got ugly and personal.

The artificial-intelligence company is adding tools and features to woo both top brands and smaller advertisers, with mixed results.

Emily St. John Mandel’s “Exit Party” traces parallel versions of America — one shattered by chaos, the other crushed by order.

The 24 New Rules for Succeeding at Work

The odds of a quarter-point rate increase at the Federal Reserve’s meeting next week surged to 90 percent after August’s Consumer Price Index report.

How steel from the World Trade Center became memorials of 9/11

Intelligence findings say Tehran is assembling stockpiled components into weapons in underground facilities.

In “Switzy,” a wealthy businessman with Alzheimer’s races to end his life.

“You get used to good money, and you still want to make it,” says one Virginia store owner.

A new publishing-industry study takes aim at ebook lending just as public libraries are fighting for their lives.

In “The Disappearers,” the Booker Prize winner returns to Jamaica with a furious epic about homophobia, violence, and survival.

Annie Lowrey explains why government makes getting help so damn complicated

A general during the Balkan wars of the 1990s, he was convicted in the killing of some 8,000 Muslims at Srebrenica, Europe’s deadliest massacre since World War II.

In Edwidge Danticat’s “Dèy,” a mother survives a mass shooting but finds that the ordinary demands of life won’t wait.

For $2,500, I could be a star.

Chang-rae Lee’s “A Tender Age” takes the despair of a boy seriously.

In “The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State,” Jill Lepore dismantles Silicon Valley’s grand promises about AI, democracy, and the future.

Glenn Fogel says he’s counting on AI to make it better, even those customer-service wait times

In “The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State,” Jill Lepore dismantles Silicon Valley’s grand promises about AI, democracy, and the future.

In his new novel, “Under the Falls,” a rock star’s homecoming becomes a dark reckoning with guilt, success, and the town he left behind.

A fascinating new book explores the hidden costs of killing the bugs we hate — and the ones we need.

Generative AI is steamrollering the once booming industry known as software-as-a-service. “You have to burn the ships and start from the ground up.”

There is life after The Washington Post — but no IT support.

Trump's attack on the Smithsonian is an affront to our intelligence.

Meredith O’Rourke, nicknamed ‘princess of darkness,’ carries out the president’s desire to wring hundreds of millions from companies for his projects.

​The president is focused on the shots’ alleged tie to autism, even though White House advisers wanted to tone down attention to the issue ahead of the midterms.

Claire Vaye Watkins’s “Yellow Pine” is a smart, sexy, surprisingly hopeful novel about the world going to hell.

What looked like political theater is becoming a genuine threat to the freedom to read.

“Cool Machine” bids farewell to Ray Carney in a witty, bloody, and unexpectedly moving finale to the Harlem Trilogy.

Prosecutors have declined to charge businesses in a number of recent cases—despite believing that senior employees were involved in wrongdoing.

One nanny isn’t cutting it anymore. Some parents are spending upward of $250,000 on teams for their children. Luxury services offer potty-training, baby chefs and bike-riding lessons.

English doesn’t need saving. Thousands of other languages do.

In Nathaniel Rich’s unsettling thriller, “Cloudthief,” the most valuable loot is us.

President Trump has wrongly attributed the $2 billion windfall he gained during his second term to a hot stock market and claimed that he was the only president to donate his salary.

A firsthand look at the new collection beneath one of the most beautiful bookstores in the world.

Bookstores, castles, and the serendipity of literary travel.

Daniel Mason’s “Country People” follows an incurable dreamer into a world of folktales, rabbit holes, and underground mysteries.

After big primary wins by the mayor’s progressive allies, New York’s business elites are rewriting their political strategy.

Maps, myths, and the lure of somewhere else.

In De'Shawn Charles Winslow's thriller, “The Fervent Whites," a wrongfully convicted White couple returns to a Black community — and old wounds bleed again.