Barbara Bush Changed With Her Country
The former first lady was notably eager to learn about people she didn’t understand—and recognize she might have been wrong about them.
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Jacquelyn Martin / AP Republican Senators Want No Part of Trump-Corker Feud
Senator Bob Corker drew little support from his party a day after unloading on the president. But neither did the commander-in-chief.
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AP Trump’s EPA Repeals a Landmark Obama Climate Rule
The most aggressive dismantling of the former president’s environmental rules yet
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Carlos Barria / Reuters American Kakistocracy
There’s a case to be made that the United States is governed by the least scrupulous of its citizens.
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Frank May / dpa / AP Trump Reverses Obama Rule on Birth Control
In two rules released Friday, the White House rolls back some of the ACA’s key requirements for employers to cover birth control.
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John Cuneo Toby Keith in Trump’s America
Talking politics with country music's bawdy, boozy star
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Hurricanes Irma and Harvey Spur the First Employment Decline in 7 Years
The U.S. labor market lost 33,000 jobs in September.
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Jonathan Ernst/ Reuters The ACLU Should Keep Representing Deplorables
An uncompromising, universalist commitment to protecting civil rights is the best way to safeguard the rights of the most vulnerable to abuse and injustice.
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AP The Language of White Supremacy
Narrow definitions of the term actually help continue the work of the architects of the post–Jim Crow racial hierarchy.
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Teresa Crawford / AP The Powerful Forces That Fight for American Fraternities
Greek organizations often wield powerful political connections and financial support in battles over their misbehavior.
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Iris Schneider / EdSource Learning While Homeless
In California, an alarming number of students are forced to balance school with the struggle of lacking a stable home.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters The Department of Justice Takes a Stand Against Transgender Rights in the Workplace
A new memo rescinds an Obama-era policy on gender-identity discrimination, setting the stage for a possible Supreme Court fight.
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Mark J. Rebilas / USA TODAY Sports / … Baseball’s Wild Cards Are the Perfect Postseason Prologue
The exhilarating MLB play-in games break with the drowsiness of the regular season in the feverish lead-up to the World Series.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters America's Political Divide Intensified During Trump's First Year as President
Republicans and Democrats have grown further apart in their political views during the first year of the administration, the Pew Research Center finds.
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Julie Jacobson / AP America's Child-Poverty Rate Has Hit a Record Low
It fell thanks to government policies, not the expansion of the economy, researchers found.
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Andrew Lichtenstein American History, Marked and Unmarked
A collection of photographs shows that reckoning with the past remains as urgent as ever.
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Greg Kahn Death at a Penn State Fraternity
Tim Piazza fought for his life for 12 hours before his Beta Theta Pi brothers called 911. By then, it was too late.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Trump Returns to the Script in Las Vegas
The chief executive was unusually solemn and empathetic after meeting with first responders and victims of Sunday’s mass shooting.
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Ricardo Arduengo / AFP / Getty What Puerto Rico Looked Like When Trump Came to Visit
Two weeks after Hurricane Maria smashed Puerto Rico, President Donald Trump flew to San Juan to assess the situation and meet with local officials, aid workers, and residents.
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Beck Diefenbach / Reuters The Push for College-Endowment Reform
Liberals and conservatives alike are taking action against inequalities in higher-education finances.
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Evan Vucci / AP What's Happening With the Relief Effort in Puerto Rico?
A timeline of the unprecedented catastrophe of Hurricane Maria
