Steven Valentino

Representative Will Hurd is the only black person in the House G.O.P. caucus. And, not even midway through this term, he’s decided not to run again. 

A self-help author with no political experience is running for President. And she wants to clear some things up: she is not an anti-vaxxer, and she doesn’t have any crystals.  

A conversation with two of the show’s creators—one Israeli, one Palestinian—about the human costs of the conflict in their homeland.

A hero to the left and a favored villain of the right, the New York congressional representative sits for a long interview with David Remnick.

The staff writer, an expert on the Middle East, says, “This is how wars start; everybody's playing chicken now.”

Sue Halpern on antitrust investigations, and why tech giants are now asking the government to regulate them.

At the Brooklyn Public Library, a drag queen teaches children a lesson of openness: “nowhere does it say you can’t play with all the colors in the crayon box.”

After decades on the fringes, the debate around reparations has moved into the political mainstream. With eight Presidential candidates interested, is there a future for reparations?

Two leading environmental writers wonder if a new sense of urgency around climate change is coming too late.

The New York senator says that her history of fighting sexual harassment and her life as a mother of young children make her the best Democratic candidate to take on Donald Trump.

The downtown artist makes a Broadway début with a gory, bombastic sequel to the bloodiest play in Shakespeare’s repertoire.

The Democratic Presidential candidate is eager to talk about Trump’s signature issue: immigration.

Varshini Prakash, a co-founder of the Sunrise Movement, says there’s no choice but to strive.

No one knows better than Carol Browner how hard the fight for environmental legislation will be.

New documents shed light on the gun group’s financially destructive business relationships.

A longtime staff writer tries out an altogether different career.

The Democratic hopeful explains a career that has included Navy service,  two terms as a small-city mayor, a Navy officer, and coming out as gay.

After a lengthy and thorough investigation, the special counsel’s report is finally in. Why is Washington still in chaos? Masha Gessen and Susan Glasser weigh in.

A pharmaceutical sales rep explains how the aggressive marketing of OxyContin destigmatized opioids—and created an epidemic.

The role and tactics of Arron Banks, a British businessman who played an outsized role in the Brexit campaign, are coming under increasing scrutiny.