News & Politics

In the age of social media, every politician who has to stand in front of a camera after a tragedy turns into just another battle site in an endless culture war.

In Israel, grief and frustration about a long, brutal war is mixed with joy that some hostages may soon return.

The Los Angeles fires hark to the nineteenth-century blazes that ravaged our cities—and point toward an even more flammable future.

Supporters of Donald Trump’s nominee have intimidated potential witnesses and suppressed the F.B.I. background check of the former Fox News host in the run-up to his Senate hearing.

A climate scientist discusses how to think about and weigh the variables that led to the current disaster.

The President-elect’s brand of America First isolationism has always sat awkwardly with his Napoleonic tendencies.

Certain business titans have made Mar-a-Lago a scene of such flagrant self-abnegation, ring-kissing, and genuflection that it would embarrass a medieval Pope.

A growing legal movement has turned to the principle of universal jurisdiction, which allows national courts to take on war-crimes cases, regardless of where those crimes were committed or the nationality of the perpetrator.