After years of trying to improve his hospital in Riverton, Wyoming—first as a doctor, then as a board member and volunteer ...

Jay Bhattacharya, the NIH director, has made a point of welcoming dissent. A letter from his officials will test that.

The most recent Pew Research Center survey shows that 77 percent of Americans believe that discrimination against trans ...

“Capital punishment operates according to an emotional logic,” staff writer Elizabeth Bruenig writes in her July cover story for The Atlantic.. “Vengeance is elemental. Injustice cries out for redress ...

S ince President Donald Trump’s victory last fall, Democrats have been trying to reengage with male voters, find a “Joe Rogan ...

Graham Robb is the author of Victor Hugo: A Biography and many other books. His newest, The Discovery of Britain: An Accidental History, from 500 Million BC to the Next Election, will be published ...

As the president prepares to host Les Mis at the Kennedy Center, a Hugo biographer imagines the French author’s perspective.

These questions, combined with a murder that tore into my own family, inspired me, several years ago, to volunteer to witness ...

Democratic organizers are hesitant to admit when get-out-the-vote efforts don’t work. One group is trying to change that.

The "Adam and Eve" letter. From Thomas Jefferson to William Short. Philadelphia, January 3, 1793. DEAR SIR,-- My last privat ...

During the George Floyd protests in 2020, Trump was furious at what he saw as the fecklessness of military leaders determined ...

Ordering the National Guard to deploy in Los Angeles is a warning of what to expect when his hold on power is threatened.