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This episode contains descriptions of sexual violence.
In Part 1 of our two-part series, we spoke to anti-abortion activists about their preparations for a future without Roe v. Wade.
Today, we talk to people working in abortion clinics about what the potential c...
For years, President Vladimir V. Putin has taken advantage of Victory Day — when Russians commemorate the Soviet triumph over Nazi Germany — to champion his country’s military might and project himself as a leader of enormous power.
This year, he drew on the pageantry of May...
This episode contains descriptions of suicide.
Over the past five years, a series of investigations by The Times has revealed the terror and tragedy that America’s air wars, despite being promoted as the most precise in history, have brought to civilians on the ground....
It was meant to mark the start of their lives out of college, but the adventure quickly turned into a nightmare. Beginning with what seemed to be a lucky whale sighting, three friends set out on a sea-kayaking trip through Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska, watching out fo...
Today, we revisit a two-part series that first ran in 2018 about the history of Roe v. Wade and the woman behind it.
Almost 50 years ago, when the Supreme Court first ruled that women had the constitutional right to an abortion, it was met with little controversy.
In Part 2,...
This week, the release of a draft Supreme Court opinion striking down Roe v. Wade has put a spotlight on the 50-year-old case that redefined abortion in America.
Today, we revisit a two-part series that first ran in 2018 about the history of the case and the woman behind it....
Since the leak of the Supreme Court draft opinion on overturning the constitutional right to abortion, both sides of the fight have been scrambling.
Today, in the first of two parts, we speak to anti-abortion activists such as Michael Gonidakis, president of Ohio Right to Li...
If the Supreme Court revokes Roe v. Wade, individual states will probably be left to make their own decisions about abortion provision.
Some states will ban abortion, and some will continue to allow it. And then there is a third group: swing states, where a final decision wi...
The revelation that the Supreme Court could end the constitutional right to abortion in the United States has set off a political firestorm and deepened divisions about one of the most contentious issues in American society.
What exactly is in the draft opinion that was leak...
Unlike other former presidents after leaving office, Donald J. Trump has remained in the middle of the political stage — raising more money than the Republican Party itself and doling out coveted endorsements.
Who has Mr. Trump backed in the midterms? And to what lengths hav...
The United States is seeing a revival in union membership.
In the last six months, the National Labor Relations Board has recorded a 60 percent increase in workers filing for petitions that allow for union elections to take place.
The circumstances that have prompted these u...
Is there a connection between former President Donald J. Trump’s pressure campaign on Ukraine, the Russian invasion and the events of Jan. 6, 2021?
The journalist Robert Draper talked to Fiona Hill, John Bolton and other former Trump advisers to gauge the extent to which the...
As the horrors of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have became clearer, the Biden administration has pivoted to a more aggressive stance, with officials talking about constraining Moscow as a global power.
But that is an escalation, and escalations can go wrong.
Guest: David E. ...
This week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new data that showed around 60 percent of Americans — more than half of adults and three quarters of children — have now been infected with the coronavirus.
But herd immunity looks likely to remain elus...
Joseph A. Kennedy, a former high school football coach, was fired after he made a habit of going to the 50-yard line after his team’s games to thank God and to lead his players in prayer.
On Monday, the Supreme Court heard his suit. The justice’s decision in the complex case...
In January 2021, one of President Biden’s first big moves in office was to sign an executive order mandating masks in airports and on planes and other forms of public transit.
But an unexpected ruling from a judge in Florida has abruptly and unexpectedly overturned that mand...
A Times investigation last year found that minor traffic stops in the United States were far more deadly than widely thought — in the previous five years, 400 unarmed motorists who were not under pursuit for any violent crime were killed by the police during such checks.
We ...
America is home to 735 billionaires with a collective worth greater than $4.7 trillion, according to Forbes. There were just 424 billionaires in 2012, Forbes found, and only 243 a decade before that. The billionaires keep multiplying.
In this article, Willy Staley uses infor...
When they go to the polls on Sunday, voters in France will be faced with the same two presidential candidates as 2017: Emmanuel Macron, the president and a polished centrist, and Marine Le Pen, the leader of the far-right National Rally party.
Yet the context is different. T...
In Texas, a heated political battle is taking place over care provided to young transgender people, with Gov. Greg Abbott taking a leading role.
The story of this confrontation began, improbably, with the contentious divorce of a suburban couple from Dallas, and a nasty cust...
In recent years, there has been a sharp increase in the number of younger Americans who identify as transgender and are seeking medical intervention to support their transition.
This increase has coincided with laws introduced in Republican State Houses across the coun...
Nearly two months into the war in Ukraine, many Russians have gone from shock and denial to support for their troops and anger at the West.
What is behind this shifting view, and what does it mean for those who go against it?
Guest: Anton Troianovski, the Moscow bureau chief...
Across the United States, 45 million borrowers now owe $1.6 trillion in debt for federal loans taken out for college — more than consumers owe on any other debt except mortgages.
For the past two years, beginning as the pandemic spread, the U.S. government has allowed tens o...
The Indigenous Brazilian territory of Ituna-Itatá was established in 2011 for the protection of an isolated group that has never been contacted by outsiders or fully confirmed to exist. But despite its special status, it has become one of the most invaded Indigenous territor...
In the 1990s, Dennis Wayne Hope committed a series of armed robberies. After proving adept at escaping prison, he was put in isolation. He has been there for nearly three decades.
His case, if the Supreme Court agrees to hear it, could answer the fundamental question of how ...
Elon Musk’s recent investment in Twitter has turned a high-profile and frequent user of the platform into the company’s largest stakeholder.
At first, the involvement of Mr. Musk, the C.E.O. of Tesla, was seen by the social media giant as a chance to gain a powerful ally. In...
After a disastrous defeat in northern Ukraine, Russia has begun a high-stakes battle for the east, while Western allies arm Ukrainian fighters determined to stave off the attack.
After Moscow’s pivot, what lies in store in the coming weeks?
Guest: Eric Schmitt, a senior writ...
On the campaign trail and when he first came to office, President Biden had ambitious plans to deal with climate change, including promises to reduce fossil fuel production.
Since the start of the war in Ukraine, however, Mr. Biden has largely stopped making the case f...
This episode contains strong language.
A year and a half ago, the Times journalists Jodi Kantor and Karen Weise began examining labor practices at Amazon.
In the process, they met Christian Smalls and Derrick Palmer, two Amazon workers at a warehouse in New York, who h...
For more than two decades, Belarus existed in an equilibrium of quiet authoritarianism. If the government’s repressions didn’t directly touch them, most Belarusians tolerated them. But over the course of 2020, the country’s history and identity, which never much interested a...
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