Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. By Michelle Goldberg Opinion Columnist I missed George Santos at the protest outside the courthouse where Donald Trump was later arraigned on Tuesday, and I couldn’t hear a thing Marjorie Taylor Greene […]

For weeks, Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, has come under heavy fire for pursuing a case against Donald Trump. Potential charges were described as being developed under a novel legal theory. And criticism has come not only from Mr. Trump and his allies, as expected, but also from many who are usually no friends […]

Trump pleads not guilty Manhattan prosecutors accused Donald Trump of covering up a potential sex scandal during the 2016 presidential campaign, unveiling 34 felony charges that open a perilous chapter in his long public life. (Follow our live coverage.)  Trump, the first former president to face criminal charges, surrendered to the authorities in Manhattan yesterday […]

If Donald J. Trump seems a little on edge lately, so does the city where he made his name. The former president, after largely eluding legal accountability of any kind for decades, has now been indicted by a grand jury in a case brought by the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg. So far Mr. Trump […]

Wisconsin is a microcosm of the country. It is narrowly divided politically, though Democrats have a slight advantage in the popular vote in statewide elections. And, as in Washington, Republicans have structural advantages in the government that give them outsize power. Conservatives have controlled the state’s Supreme Court since 2008, and Republicans have held a […]

The photograph of Muhammad Ali flexing over a fallen Sonny Liston is one of the most famous in sports history. The moment, and the image, are iconic, sold in every format imaginable, while also helping mythologize an athlete, a sport and even an era. I hadn’t thought much about this photo, or sports photography in […]

When a fire broke out last week at a Mexican detention center for migrants and asylum seekers in Ciudad Juárez, just across the border from El Paso, it seemed like cosmically bad luck, a double tragedy: People forced — by political instability, criminal violence, climate change or economic deprivation — to flee their homes, faced […]

More from our inbox: To the Editor: “In Fact, the Science Is Clear That Masks Work,” by Zeynep Tufekci (column, March 11), was spot on. Wearing masks may not be the best method of stopping the spread of viruses and bacteria, but it is one cost-effective measure to slow the spread. Chinese citizens wear masks […]

Marula was an orange kitty, a purr machine with multiple birth defects, so he was the perfect cat to be a veterinarian’s companion. He purred against my belly when I was pregnant and, years later, he never missed story time, seeming to read the book from one side of me while my son sat on […]

This year more than 350 anti-transgender bills have been introduced in state legislatures, pushing discussion about treatment for trans and gender-diverse patients further into the national spotlight. It isn’t hard to surmise that politically convenient doubts about the validity of trans identities have come to take the form of prohibitions against trans health care. In […]