It starts with a bang—a fiery explosion, a cloud of smoke, a horrific bloodbath. The year is 1937, deep into the Spanish Civil War, and a group of villagers have gathered to cheer on the right-wing ...

I wake to the sound of legislation being thrown at my window. I look at the legislation and angrily get on the phone. “There should be more carcinogens,” I demand. Breakfast is scrambled eggs and ...

An A.I.-generated Josh Shapiro talking about “deleting incriminating e-mails.” An A.I.-generated Abdul El-Sayed and the words “DEATH TO AMERICA.” They’re not real, but can voters tell the difference?

In the midterms’ most competitive races, Democratic candidates are reviving an old party message: that the Republicans are ...

In recent decades, the second terms of American Presidents have not ended well. Ronald Reagan had the Iran-Contra affair; Bill Clinton, after attempting to cover up his affair with a former intern, ...

A.I. is solving problems that stumped the field of math for decades. Mathematicians look to Terence Tao for guidance on their ...

No one cares as much about presents as kids do. No pressure! Fortunately, choosing a gift for a child comes with fewer shades ...

In the internet age, national elections are increasingly international. What does Lula’s victory mean for the world?

In Jack Auen and Kevin Walker’s “Chronovisor,” nothing is scarier than a life of the mind. “It has the cadence of a burgeoning obsession,” Becca Rothfeld writes.

I’m not sure why, but more and more of late I’ve found myself drawn to characters who can’t stop making mistakes. It’s ...