Many metropolitan newspapers across the country have narrowed their ambitions in recent years, closing regional bureaus and cutting back statewide coverage in an effort to trim costs. The Star Tribune…
Jeison Gabriel España left home on July 28 to vote for the first — and last — time in his brief life. A day after casting his ballot in a…
Shortly after the 11 minutes were over and President Joseph R. Biden Jr. arose from behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office on the evening of July 24, he…
“That’s where Hurt Village was.” Michael Oher was pointing to the site of a now-demolished housing project where he lived with his mother, who was addicted to drugs, and, at…
Paul C. Pauley views himself as a middle-of-the-road Republican — who also just happens to believe in one of the most pernicious far-right conspiracy theories about illegal border crossings: that…
By Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, a professor of English at Central Michigan University, the Los Angeles Review of Books associate editor in charge of horror, and the founder and president of…
The first thing to know about Kamala Harris’s campaign for California attorney general is that she was not necessarily favored to win. It was 2010 — the pinnacle of the…
How did the best years of Amani Lewis’s career turn into the worst time of the artist’s life? First came the meteoric rise. A haunting painting Lewis made in 2020…
While their curly-haired rescue dog napped on the floor, an Italian couple logged on to a late-night video call with their American surrogate, sunbathing in her garden in Oregon. The…
When a draft of a blockbuster Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade leaked in 2022, Vice President Kamala Harris met with Ron Klain, then the White House chief of…