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A professor at M.I.T. on how Xi Jinping is likely to respond to U.S. tariffs and why the standoff won't weaken the Chinese Communist Party's grip on power.

Universities are accustomed to acquiescing to the government, but Trump made Harvard an offer it couldn't not refuse.

A legal scholar argues that the judiciary's "passive-aggressive approach" to the Trump Administration is doomed to fail.

As I.R.S. employees toil through tax season, their agency is being dismantled by the government it powers.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo has some of the largest deposits on Earth. Its President wants to sell them--and win a war.

By defying the Justices' ruling on a man mistakenly sent to El Salvador, the Administration has shown that it is not owed the deference typically shown to the executive branch.

People who love Phish do so with a quasi-religious devotion. People who dislike Phish do so with an equal fervor.

The Luddites lost the fight to save their livelihoods. As the threat of artificial intelligence looms, can we do any better?

The view from northern Europe, which, until very recently, had long seen the United States as a land of hope.

Why are incarcerated people dying from lack of food or water, even as private companies are paid millions for their care?