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The fast and fiery debate on Tuesday night between Senator Ted Cruz and his Democratic opponent for U.S. Senate in Texas, Colin Allred, was something of a political throwback: a...

Donald Trump is so dependent on racial and ethnic antagonism that without it he would be a marginal figure, relegated to the sidelines. Trump’s constant demonization of Black people and...

In 2020, when Donald Trump questioned the results of the election, the courts decisively rejected his efforts, over and over again. In 2024, the judicial branch may be unable to...

A decade ago, the University of Michigan intentionally placed itself in the vanguard of a revolution then beginning to reshape American higher education. Around the country, college administrators were rapidly...

In October 1960, when the novelist Philip Roth was just 27, he shared an unsettling revelation: Reality was outstripping fiction. “The American writer,” he wrote, “has his hands full in...

When it comes to how our minds work, people have a lot in common, but instead of bringing us together, our shared traits are doing a remarkably effective job of...

As universities have released demographic information about their new freshman classes — the first cohort affected by last year’s Supreme Court decision banning affirmative action — advocates for colorblindness are...

Two months ago, Javier Barajas hosted former President Donald J. Trump at Il Toro E La Capra, one of five restaurants he owns in Las Vegas. Mr. Barajas, 65, had...

Vice President Kamala Harris will continue her explicit outreach to Republican voters on Wednesday at a Pennsylvania event with a phalanx of former Republican elected officials who have turned against...

American architecture’s bright, shining light of the Kennedy era, Paul Rudolph was scrounging for commissions less than a decade later. He may now be best remembered — to the extent...