There is very little action and no certainty. Sophia doesn’t say much, and Mr. Western can’t interpret her expression, which she herself does not fully understand. And, after Western says his piece, which is...

Iowa Senate PrimaryLast September, the two-term Iowa senator Joni Ernst announced that she was stepping down. A few months earlier, she had faced criticism for responding to constituent concerns about Medicaid cuts by saying,...

California Gubernatorial PrimaryThe California gubernatorial primary is a so-called “jungle” primary, meaning that all candidates, from any party, run against one another in a single election. If one candidate receives more than fifty per...

In a story titled “A List,” from the classic children’s-book series “Frog and Toad,” Toad wakes up one morning and, anticipating a busy day ahead, decides to make a to-do list. At first, the...

NEW YORK, June 1 (Reuters) - Oil prices surged more than $6 per barrel on Monday after Iran’s Tasnim news agency reported that Tehran’s negotiating team has halted message exchanges with the United States...

This intervention comes as the C.F.T.C. is expanding its supervisory role in another fast-developing industry, one in which the Trump family has even bigger financial interests: crypto. According to the watchdog group Public Citizen,...

In English, it’s called the World Cup, but I prefer the stirring names by which it’s known in other European languages—Mundial, Mondiali, Weltmeisterschaft—and which better convey the idea that this is not a sports...

The culprit here is, partly, California’s “jungle” primary: an egalitarian-minded effort by which everybody sets out together, in one pool, and the top two vote-getters progress to the general election, regardless of the parties...

BEIRUT (AP) — Israel’s government ordered strikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut on Monday, a day after its ground forces reached their deepest point in Lebanon in 26 years and as Hezbollah fired...

So outlandish are Wembanyama’s skills, and so anomalous his physiology, that people commonly refer to him as an alien. It fits. But what comes through when you watch him is his humanity. So much...