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Donald Trump’s behavior cannot be called unexpected at this point.

After a heated week at the U.N.

A Mississippi grand jury declined to bring charges in connection with the death of a Black teen-ager during a boating trip, but it’s still unclear exactly how he died.

For the outreach workers trying to place homeless New Yorkers in shelters, each evening presents familiar faces and fresh challenges.

The senator uses her seniority in Congress to bring significant resources to her state.

The entertainment agent and executive talks with David Remnick about his dealings with the President, the tech mogul, and Mohammed bin Salman, and operating within “shades of gray.”

The President’s party, facing a midterm reckoning, is begging for a way out of his Iran-war doom loop.

We’re constantly told that Chinese advances would have catastrophic consequences.

Tech workers have flocked to Liangzhu, a small town outside Hangzhou, looking to escape China’s corporate culture and build their future with A.I.

As the President stages a gala welcome for the Chinese leader, it appears that, in curious ways, the two men mirror each other.

After CNN, MS NOW, and Politico were barred from the White House, the entire TV press pool announced a boycott of the President.

A sense of shame binds us together—and can hold the powerful in check.

Scientists have new proof that the President had children with his enslaved chambermaid Sally Hemings—and that their bloodline endures across the country.

Nearly a year after the ceasefire, the analyst Jaser Abu Mousa explains the impediments to rebuilding, and the devastation of his own family.

In close contests for governor and a Senate seat, candidates from both parties claim that they’re fighting a corrupt system.

Students and faculty across the country were punished for their reactions to the conservative activist’s murder.

One of the country’s most popular novelists writes what she calls socially engaged fiction.

Our legal system isn’t ready for machines that act on their own.

Why can’t the people who produced the technology, which has already shown that a different world is possible, just do the things that would prevent extinction?

The U.S. opted not to intervene as Yemen’s Houthi rebels seized a major choke point for Saudi oil shipments on the Red Sea.

Did Benjamin Netanyahu’s aides peddle influence to a foreign power?

The New Yorker staff writer examines America’s unique problem with gun violence, and why he thinks under-policing is at the root of our problem.

The Thirlwall Inquiry looked at why the nurse wasn’t prevented from murdering babies.

Herds of livestock are munching through overgrown, hard-to-reach vegetation that could otherwise become fuel for firestorms.

China’s fears about the technology are increasingly distinct from those of the U.S.

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Trump is at the heart of this geopolitical moment, catalytic in his alliance-fraying bullying, unprovoked warmongering, and protectionist demagoguery.

Employees of A.I. companies are increasingly sounding the alarm.

In an unsigned ruling, the Supreme Court demonstrated that it is willing to limit Donald Trump’s agenda.

Why did a mysterious couple collect babies in a Los Angeles mansion?

The tech world has long been run by iconoclasts whose ideas about right and wrong are self-consciously different from those of most people.

Godwits make the longest non-stop migration in the bird world.

A prominent dressage trainer shot a belligerent student—and now maintains that he’s the real victim.

Why are we so obsessed with putting our belongings in metal boxes and then never looking at them again?

Donald Trump’s son-in-law represents the kind of Washington figure for whom public office serves as a means to extraordinary wealth.

The emergence of Germany’s far right as a political force represents an old dilemma.

In a riveting U.S.

Generational wealth shapes our futures and friendships, whether we talk about it or not.

In his new memoir, “The Perilous Fight,” the former N.F.L. star recounts the backlash he faced from the league.

In the twenty-five years since 9/11, the U.S. has waged several military campaigns against extremism around the world, resulting in the deaths of almost a million people.

The former state senator replaced Graham Platner as Maine’s Democratic nominee.

The political operative Adam Jentleson once believed “the way for Democrats to win was to get your base really riled up.”

It became immediately evident that this was terrorism on an unexampled scale.

After winning a state election this past weekend, the German far right is closer to power than it has been in decades.

New reporting from Haaretz shows that, before October 7th, the Israeli Prime Minister was told to expect an “earthquake” from Gaza—and didn’t inform his security chiefs.

Increasingly, people are ignoring social norms in favor of a narrow self-interest.

So far, the proliferation of A.I. models such as Claude and ChatGPT hasn’t led to mass displacement of workers.

A quarter century after the attacks, the grief, wars, and political furies of their aftermath still shape American life.

Daysi González, who works to elect Democrats, is gearing up to leave the U.S. as soon as this month.

Both the prosecution and the defense tried to tell tidy stories.