Damon Hewitt is the President and Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. Before joining the ...

An unidentified Downtown Development Authority personnel takes a close look at the mural of Jackie Robinson, the first black to integrate Major League Baseball in 1947, after it was defaced by someone ...

A civil war has broken out among the Democratic wonks. The casus belli is a new set of ideas known as the abundance agenda.

And this is what I’ve begun to see, in parts of the Trump right, is this idea that anything that makes you feel sympathy or ...

Robert P. Jones is the president and founder of Public Religion Research Institute. He is the author of the New York Times ...

The radical feminist author of Against Our Will r​eshaped the national conversation about sexual assault. Her contributions ...

Isabella Mason was 13 when Floyd was killed. As COVID and protests raged outside, she stayed in her bedroom in East New York, ...

In this episode of “The Opinions,” the Times Opinion politics correspondent Michelle Cottle speaks to the columnists Jamelle Bouie and David French about the rise of “toxic empathy” and how the right ...

Trans people fought police alongside gays and lesbians after a 1969 raid on the Stonewall Inn. A government website now tells just part of the story.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has been called "Trump before there was a Trump." Here's why his reshaping of Hungary's ...

Theodore Roosevelt was a man who never stopped fighting. He grappled with his own physical deficiencies, railed against ...