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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?
By Rachel Monroe
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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.
By Clare Malone
A Reporter at Large
Notes from Underground
The life of Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas in Gaza.
By David Remnick
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.
By Heidi Blake
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.
By Margaret Talbot
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.
By Amy Davidson Sorkin
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.
By Jon Lee Anderson
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.
By Geraldo Cadava
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”?
By Isaac Chotiner
Q. & A.
Was Biden’s Decision to Withdraw “Heroic”?
Jon Meacham, the President’s friend and informal adviser, considers his legacy.
By Isaac Chotiner
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.
By Isaac Chotiner
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.
By Isaac Chotiner
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?
By John Cassidy
Fault Lines
The Politics of “Weird”
Kamala Harris’s campaign has smartly positioned her as the normal candidate. But disagreements and distractions lie ahead.
By Jay Caspian Kang
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?
By Susan B. Glasser
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.
By John Cassidy
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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.
By Joshua Yaffa
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.
By Shayla Love
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.
By Nathan Heller
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.
By Eliza Griswold
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.
By Chang Che
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.
By Antonia Hitchens
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.
By Jonathan Blitzer
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.
By Jay Caspian Kang