Opinion | The Supreme Court Is Playing a Dangerous Game
If the chief currency of the Supreme Court is its legitimacy as an institution, then you can say with confidence that its account is as close to empty as it…
Opinion | Why Control of the Senate Hinges on Don Jr.’s Hunting Buddy
In the 2022 midterms, Donald Trump made life hell for Republican Party leaders trying to take back the Senate and win governor’s races in swing states like Arizona and Pennsylvania.…
March Madness Spotlights a Sport Relegated to Pittsburgh’s Shadows: Basketball
Sports run through Pittsburgh the way its rivers do, dappling the city’s culture with hints of black and gold. The baseball icon Roberto Clemente’s name graces a downtown bridge. Over…
The A.C.L.U. Said a Worker Used Racist Tropes and Fired Her. But Did She?
Kate Oh was no one’s idea of a get-along-to-go-along employee. During her five years as a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union, she was an unsparing critic of her…
Opinion | Jailed in Putin’s Russia for Speaking the Truth
The Committee to Protect Journalists has documented that at least 320 members of the press were behind bars around the globe as 2024 began. In Vladimir Putin’s police state, at…
Opinion | The Great Rupture in American Jewish Life
For the last decade or so, an ideological tremor has been unsettling American Jewish life. Since Oct. 7, it has become an earthquake. It concerns the relationship between liberalism and…
Utility-Caused Wildfires Are Becoming a National Problem
After a utility pole fell and ignited a wildfire, Frank King and his family raced to escape as electrical transformers exploded around their homes near Oregon’s coast. A bright red…
Insooni Breaks Racial Barrier to Become Beloved Singer in South Korea
When she took the stage to perform at Carnegie Hall in front of 107 Korean War veterans, the singer Kim Insoon was thinking of her father, an American soldier stationed…
Joan Jonas on Her Island of Wonder
The view never ends from the weathered porch of Joan Jonas’s summer home on a hill in Cape Breton Island, on the tip of Nova Scotia. Just beyond a thicket…
Inside Garland’s Effort to Prosecute Trump
After being sworn in as attorney general in March 2021, Merrick B. Garland gathered his closest aides to discuss a topic too sensitive to broach in bigger groups: the possibility…