Steven Valentino

Texans seeking abortion access may look south of the border, where Mexico’s Supreme Court just affirmed reproductive choice.

Ressa, a Filipino American journalist, discusses the latest revelations of the social network’s failure to control disinformation and hate.

The staff writer asks about the prosecution of January 6th insurrectionists, and about what the Justice Department can do to protect abortion access and voting rights.

A new report documents the lack of Latino stories in media and entertainment. The Texas congressman warns that underrepresentation allows the ugliest stereotypes to hold sway.

The Taliban have taken charge of Afghanistan once again. What comes next?

Senator Michael Bennet describes the significance of direct cash payments to families with children, and our economics correspondent wonders if the policy sets the stage for U.B.I.

The staff writer and author of “The Forever War” talks about how American involvement came to such a chaotic and ominous end.

The plot to kidnap the journalist Masih Alinejad from Brooklyn and deliver her to Iran sounds like something from a bad spy novel. But the F.B.I. says the threat was very real.

Three writers share on-the-job tales that they won’t be putting on their résumés.

The largest Protestant denomination in America is in crisis over the group’s reluctance to acknowledge systemic racism.

The staff writer Patricia Marx checks out the new vaccinated seating sections at New York’s Major League Baseball parks.

Are the President’s ambitions grand enough to withstand the realities of American politics? 

After more than seventy years, the government is publicly acknowledging that mysterious sightings cannot simply be dismissed. Gideon Lewis-Kraus explains what’s changed, and why.

A leaked call records conservatives planning to defeat the voting-rights bill H.R. 1. Popular with voters of both parties, it would curtail the flow of “dark money” into elections.

Most states are moving to restrict access to voting. Federal legislation known as H.R. 1 aims to expand it. Jelani Cobb and Jeannie Suk Gersen discuss the war over voting in America.

The Maryland lawmaker took shelter during the January 6th insurrection and then led the impeachment that followed, all within weeks of losing his son.

A new Oversight Board launched by Facebook will be able to overrule the company’s own decisions about content.  Now it will rule on whether Trump should remain banned.

Two New Yorker political writers on the beginnings of a new agenda, and the limits of the Democrats’ control.

The violence that has marked Donald Trump’s final days in office is the culmination of four years of willful distortions of reality and disregard of the rule of law.

Reporting on the trajectory of COVID-19 in the U.S., the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist says that “the magnitude of our failure is unparalleled.”