When Chad Baker died from a lethal combination of cocaine and heroin, prosecutors charged Tommy Kosto, his friend and fellow drug user, with killing him—a tactic from the Reagan-era war on drugs that is gaining popularity around the country and making today's opioid crisis even worse.

"The Wife" exposes the inequality in a famous novelist’s marriage.

Why are America's elite universities censoring themselves on China?

Many jobs are pointless. Others are being automated away. In the future, who will still work for a paycheck?

How to argue with a Koch brother

Artists head to the desert to build a utopia. But does their work hold up in the real world?

Not since the Tea Party wave in 2009 has America seen such widespread grassroots activism.

Why so many commentators share an overly grim view of America’s fate

The Democrats are reclaiming language they ceded to the GOP decades ago—and putting a liberal spin on it.

Suburban mothers have been coveted voters since the 1990s, but now they're running for office.

How the show’s new season skewers the book world

It's a foolish, losing message for Democrats—in the midterms and beyond.

The prospect of a Democratic wave in the midterm elections this fall recalls the moment, nearly 50 years ago, when a group of young, liberal lawmakers swept into Congress on a mission to overturn the status quo. What can today's Democrats learn from the historic class of 1974?

The party has the money and machinery. Why is so little of it going toward Hispanic outreach?

The influential congressman is among a wave of Democrats running for attorney general to take on Trump directly.