The president leads by nearly 700,000 votes, but there are 1.4 million absentee votes outstanding.

Local nonprofit groups that cleaned streets, built playgrounds and mentored children had a real effect on the crime rate, a sociologist finds.

Early voters, urban voters and minority voters are all more likely to wait and wait. And that makes them less likely to vote in the future.

Mr. Trump is far better than any other candidate — maybe any candidate ever — at drawing attention without having to advertise for it.

President Trump has tweeted an average of 28 times a day in the last three weeks, mostly lamenting the results of the election, even as the coronavirus pandemic reached new heights across the country.

It’s a widely held perception, but a new analysis finds no evidence to support it.

Response rates suggest the “death of telephone polling” is getting closer.

Joe Biden appears in a stronger position to oust an incumbent president than any challenger since Bill Clinton in the summer of 1992.

Some Republicans think breaking up health reform might be a good backup plan if the current bill fails. But it’s an option that could easily backfire.

Although Democrats will probably pick up a few additional seats in this year’s election, the development is less helpful for them than it might at first appear.

As some insurers focus on encouraging vaccination, temporary waivers that kept patient costs low are expiring.

Creators of the Portland-area approach tried to avoid the pitfalls of similar policies elsewhere, and are giving teachers large raises.

States dominated by Democrats are generally better for your well-being.

Background checks? More concealed weapons? What about improving mental health care, or having better community outreach?

Adults also need to get vaccinated to provide herd immunity for others, especially babies and older people.

Cases, hospitalizations and deaths across much of the country are the highest they have been during the pandemic.

In many states, they’d be a lot harder to see.

Old but only recently published research increases a concern that when it comes to nutrition, personal beliefs can trump science.

Examining the large and rapid shift in American voters’ attitudes on the Black Lives Matter movement.

Nudges that benefit companies and not consumers are a misguided use of a principle of behavioral economics.

This list documents all the verbal attacks Mr. Trump posted on Twitter, from when he declared his candidacy in June 2015 to Jan. 8, when Twitter permanently barred him.

His place in N.F.L. history may be best understood by seeing his achievements stacked up against hundreds of his quarterback peers.

It wasn’t a wave everywhere. In North Carolina and other states, gerrymandered congressional maps played a big role in keeping down Democratic gains.

Background checks? More concealed weapons? What about improving mental health care, or having better community outreach?

A look at what 2014 and 2016 were trying to tell Democrats, such as whether they should be thinking more about class and less about identity politics.

Evidence suggests you may want to be more cautious near theaters showing the latest installment in the movie series.

The associations are part of a larger set of policies meant to chip away at Obamacare, and are likely to destabilize its markets for individual and small business insurance.

How far do you have to move our slider to hear one name or the other?

The U.S. fared poorly, as usual, in a worldwide ranking of students’ test scores, but it showed significant gains among disadvantaged teenagers.

Generic images used in ads, billboards, magazines and blogs hold up a mirror to culture at a particular moment in time. But can they also subtly influence it?