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How Tribal Nations Are Reclaiming Oklahoma

After the Supreme Court ruled in favor of tribal interests, suddenly nearly half of the state was Native territory. What exactly does that mean?
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The Tail End

What we lose when we lose a pet.
Profiles

What Does Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Actually Want?

The third-party Presidential candidate has a troubled past, a shambolic campaign, and some surprisingly good poll numbers.
A Reporter at Large

Notes from Underground

The life of Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas in Gaza.
Annals of Crime

Did the U.K.’s Most Infamous Family Massacre End in a Wrongful Conviction?

For decades, questions have circled the Whitehouse Farm murders. The British justice system has made it extraordinarily difficult to get definitive answers.

Commentary

Daily Comment

J. D. Vance and the Right’s Call to Have More Babies

Pronatalism has much in common with some of Vance’s views: it typically combines concerns about falling birth rates with anti-immigration and anti-feminist ideas.
Comment

The Supreme Court Needs Fixing, but How?

President Biden has proposed radical changes to the Court. Reviewing them is a reminder of why reform is so hard, despite dissatisfaction and a wealth of ideas.
Daily Comment

Venezuela’s Moment of Reckoning

Nicolás Maduro’s claim to have won the Presidential election has further inflamed the nation’s contest between democracy and authoritarianism.
Daily Comment

Does Kamala Harris Need a Latino Campaign?

Republicans have offered a different approach—speaking to Latinos the same way they do to everyone else.

Conversations

Q. & A.

Inside Donald Trump’s Effort to Woo Arab Americans

Will voters fed up with Biden’s approach to Gaza turn to a man who once called for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States”?
Q. & A.

Was Biden’s Decision to Withdraw “Heroic”?

Jon Meacham, the President’s friend and informal adviser, considers his legacy.
Q. & A.

Bernie Sanders Wants Joe Biden to Stay in the Race

But he still won’t say that the President is capable of serving a second term.
Q. & A.

A Congressional Democrat Explains Why He’s Standing with Biden

Robert Garcia, of California, knows that the President had a bad debate. He thinks Democrats should back him anyway.

From Our Columnists

The Financial Page

Trump’s Dangerous Embrace of Bitcoin and the Crypto Bros

Having suffered a series of legal and regulatory setbacks in recent years, the cryptocurrency industry is pouring millions of dollars into the upcoming election. To what end?
Fault Lines

The Politics of “Weird”

Kamala Harris’s campaign has smartly positioned her as the normal candidate. But disagreements and distractions lie ahead.
Letter from Biden’s Washington

Trump’s Racist Attack on Kamala Harris Was No Accident

Is it, perhaps, a sign that the Vice-President’s swift rise in the polls has him panicked?
The Financial Page

Kamala Harris and the Legacy of Bidenomics

How the Vice-President’s economic approach might build upon, and differ from, that of her predecessor.

More News

News Desk

Evan Gershkovich Is Finally Coming Home

In a multinational prisoner exchange, the Wall Street Journal reporter was freed, after being detained for more than a year in Russian jail.
Annals of Inquiry

How a Rare Disorder Makes People See Monsters

A mysterious neurological condition makes faces look grotesque—and sheds new light on the inner workings of the brain.
Daily Comment

It’s Too Early to Give Up on Homelessness in America

The country’s most powerful deep-blue governor, Gavin Newsom, ordered encampments to be dismantled. But lasting solutions are still needed.
Campaign Chronicles

Will Black Men Turn Out for Kamala Harris?

In Philadelphia, the Independent city councilman Nicolas O’Rourke is ambivalent about the Democrats but waging an effort to swing soft Trumpers to Harris.
Dispatch

Reimagining China in Tokyo

A new community of expats is opening bookstores, attending lectures, and imagining alternatives to Xi from the relative safety of Japan.
Dispatch

How MAGA World Is Taking On Its New Opponent

As Kamala Harris’s campaign begins, Donald Trump is reëmphasizing himself as the candidate running to save democracy from a conspiracy between the élites and the press.
Daily Comment

The Real Story of Kamala Harris’s Record on Immigration

Republicans have attacked the Vice-President as the Biden Administration’s “border czar,” but her remit was always to address the root causes farther south.
Fault Lines

Kamala Harris Should Tell Her Family’s Story

The tale of two immigrants who found opportunity in America is an inspiring one. On the rare occasions that Harris shares it, her sometimes blurry identity comes into focus.