Last year, starting in January, the United States experienced its largest documented measles outbreak in more than three decades, when an epidemic centered on West Texas sickened at least 762 people.

Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in ...

George Saunders’s work makes an excellent case that fiction can explore virtue—even if his latest novel reveals its pitfalls.

George Saunders’s work makes an excellent case that fiction can explore virtue—even if his latest novel reveals its pitfalls.

His administration is trying to distort the reality of Alex Pretti’s killing.

The federal agents sent to Minnesota wear body armor and masks, and bear long guns and sidearms. But their skittishness and brutality are qualities associated with fear, not resolve. It takes far more ...

Perhaps the most disturbing part of the Trump administration’s immigration operation in Minnesota is not just that agents of ...

A broader crisis of government legitimacy is imminent in the absence of a change in direction by the Trump administration.

Before her murder made her a true-crime obsession, Elizabeth Short was a real person. A new book tries to separate truth from ...

It also highlights the risks that Trump’s personalized form of diplomacy presents to American national security and the ...

Helen Lewis is a staff writer at The Atlantic. She is the author of Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights and ...