Have independent women really turned that hard against the Democrats? It’s a national poll that measures mood, not specific reactions to specific candidates.

Republican Herschel Walker and Democrat Raphael Warnock are facing off in November. Both men are Black. This does not mean—contra New York Times pundit Frank Bruni—that race isn’t a factor.

The New York Times columnist lays the groundwork for a mainstream case for trans exclusion.

The political press is addicted to conflict and failure. If the White House wants to change the narrative, it’ll need to cut out the middlemen.

The Twitter hubbub over uncredited scholars is a sideshow. The real people who’ve suffered from the way we’ve covered Haiti are Haitians.

Yes, the former president is vain, and the House minority leader crossed him. But the briefly disloyal Republican may yet be spared.

He has repeatedly declared the pandemic is in retreat. He has cast doubt on masks. And he has one of the biggest platforms at The New York Times.

Her lawsuit against The New York Times, and a misguided CNN essay about Joe Rogan and the January 6 riot, show the risks of straining to make eye-catching connections in the news of the day.

Pundits are acting apocalyptic about pandemic education policy and the midterms. The evidence paints a far shakier picture.

The governor of New York resigned as his lawyer, Rita Glavin, stood in defense. A shield of women enforcers, it turns out, was his strategy until the very end.

Michael Powell frames policing and racial justice as issues moving the ACLU away from its core mission around speech. It’s a false antagonism—and a trap.

Even when tenure decisions aren’t influenced by politics, they often exacerbate deep inequalities. And professors who do get tenure are untouchable.

What effect will accusations of sexual assault have on the acclaimed biographer’s champions?

The paper of record is only now realizing that the governor it glorified for the past year may not be not fit to serve.

A new book explores the impact tourism has had on our politics, our planet, and our selves.

It was a foregone conclusion that the former president wouldn’t be convicted—and the mainstream press is finally reaching a consensus about why.

Bright young aspiring oil executives have more options than people trapped in a town with no jobs.

Having declared victory in its war on Backpage and sex work, the liberal-conservative coalition has pivoted to porn.

“Find Your Place in the Vaccine Line” tools encourage people to think individualistically about the pandemic. That’s not how pandemics work.

The polling industry has squandered the public’s trust for the last time.