Record-keepers have a pretty good sense of how many people have died. Figuring out the cause of deaths is trickier

Postmaster General DeJoy faced over a dozen conflicts of interest, refused to divest from own firm

Grover Cleveland is the only one who actually pulled it off — but a Trump restoration would be entirely different

Cullen Hoback's six-part look at the QAnon conspiracy explains everything, all at once, and remains perplexing

Leftist ex-president wins Brazil's hotly contested election — but the really hard part will be governing

Wisconsin lost up to 1/3 of its gray wolf population after the Trump administration stripped federal protections

Activists express outrage after Jessica Reznicek hit with harsh sentence for damaging pipeline equipment

“It’s alarming, it’s frustrating and it’s scary,” election clerk says of Republicans' new vote-suppression scheme

Biden's executive order to promote "access to voting" does not mention colleges or automatic voter registration

High speed rail. Self-driving cars. Better infrastructure could drive a transit-based America by 2021

Using new technology to teach our history might come with unintended consequences

We may think of flags as having a specific meaning, but there are few symbols whose significance is truly permanent

The Capitol invasion was a national trauma — with no catharsis. Collective amnesia won't make fascism go away

The motion for recusal was based on Trump's fears that Chutkan would not be "fair" in his election case

A new policy brings back an old approach to tallying the cost of carbon, but critics say it has limitations