As the numbers show, the timing of social distancing can have an enormous impact on death tolls.

The indictment has given the American public a cautionary tale of contemporary American democracy—a story of deception, influence, and technology.

As Donald Trump surrenders America’s global commitments, Xi Jinping is learning to pick up the pieces.

The Constitution offers two main paths for removing a President from office. How feasible are they?

To understand the President’s path to the 2020 election, look at what he has provided the country’s executive class.

Trailing Trump in polls and facing doubts about his age, the President voices defiant confidence in his prospects for reëlection.

How the President’s son-in-law, despite his inexperience in diplomacy, became Beijing’s primary point of interest.

On the ground in Pyongyang: Could Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump goad each other into a devastating confrontation?

How the Administration’s loyalists are quietly reshaping American governance.

From 2018: Evan Osnos on the most famous entrepreneur of his generation, who is facing a public reckoning with the power of Big Tech.

The revelation that the F.B.I. is investigating Kushner’s contacts has thrust the Russian-meddling probe to a new level of proximity to President Trump.

Marion Hammer’s unique influence over legislators has produced laws that dramatically alter long-held American norms.

Washington is in an intensifying standoff with Beijing. Which one will fundamentally shape the twenty-first century?

For the country, the long-term risks of political backsliding are profound.

In the wake of James Comey’s rebuke, Trump is less likely to restrategize than to gird for combat, which may entangle him further.

The Secret Service agent turned radio host is furious at liberals—so he’s trying to build a right-wing media infrastructure in time for 2024.

The Attorney General’s defenses regarding his contact with the Russian Ambassador only make matters worse. Here are questions to consider as the scandal unfolds.

As Congress meets to plot its next steps, several questions are emerging about the legal and political risks to Trump and his Administration.

The voices of parents and students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School could be an inflection point in America’s broken politics surrounding guns.

Throughout history, diseases have posed an unsparing test of political leaders and their fidelity to the facts.

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In response to mass shootings, terrorist attacks, and talk of gun control, firearm sales have broken records.

China’s leaders don’t trust the North Korean dictator, Kim Jong Un—but they trust President Trump even less.

Throughout history, diseases have posed an unsparing test of political leaders and their fidelity to the facts.