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President-elect Joe Biden says he has an ambitious climate change strategy, with his advisers promising “a whole government approach” to add...

A few days after Thanksgiving, as the number of coronavirus cases surged to alarming new levels in Los Angeles, Mayor Eric Garcetti tweeted...

In July 1979, shortly after installing a set of solar panels over the West Wing, Jimmy Carter did something peculiar for a peacetime preside...

The ATF is a federal law enforcement agency that focuses on gun crimes. It also inspects gun dealers and manufacturers to make sure they fol...

The state of affairs that President-elect Joe Biden will inherit when he’s sworn into office next month already has many on the left, along...

On a cloudy Christmas Eve in 1907, Mary McGann, a 10-year-old Irish girl living in Hell’s Kitchen with her younger brother and mother, wrote...

In December, the Vatican became one of the latest entities to unveil a plan to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, joining far less pious acto...

It’s democracy’s death knell: The feeling that the future is beyond us, the sensation that we’ve lost, as citizens, the ability to direct ou...

Sexual violence and misogyny have for so long provided mainstream film and television with a wellspring of entertaining tropes, that when wr...

Would you like to give your friends and loved ones the gift of surveillance this holiday season? Your options abound. The market for “smart”...

WhenPresident-elect Joe Biden takes office in January, he’ll inherit a countrythat’s riven with divisions along ethnic and socio-economic...

In 1958, a British sociologist named Michael Young, in a book called The Rise of the Meritocracy, portrayed a dystopia. He imagined a societ...

Joe Biden will have to do more about climate change than any president before him. He has no choice. Already, close U.S. allies are openly e...

Six months ago, after Minneapolis police killed George Floyd, the city moved to defund the department. That was the headline in June, but th...

Four years ago, the United States was widely viewed as the towering, swaggering leader of global anti-corruption efforts. While other countr...

When Americans learn about Congress in civics classes, they’re taught that passing legislation can be a lengthy, multi-stage process. Bills...

In September, New Jersey officials announced a plan to borrow $4.5 billion to cover what The New York Times referred to as a “gaping financi...

News of specific, potentially more contagious coronavirus variants in the United Kingdom and South Africa have swept global headlines in rec...

While campaigning this spring in the Democratic primary for Missouri’s first congressional district, then–insurgent candidate Cori Bush foun...

The New York Times on Monday published a mea culpa by career lawyer Erica Newland, who joined the Justice Department under Obama and then se...

When Flavio first heard about a temporary farm work program in the U.S., it sounded like a great deal. Everything from his salary to his hou...

In 2020, the media got bigger. The New York Times continued its hegemonic expansion, announcing that it had topped five million subscribers...

When some colleagues and I recently met to discuss the past year in culture, we easily agreed on one thing only: Corporate consolidation, an...

For most of America’s 10 million middle schoolers, English class means enjoying—or, perhaps, enduring—the timeless narratives of the Western...

It’s a certainty that we’ll be entering both the new year and a new Democratic administration with the American economy on its knees. We’ll...