The contributing writer Peter Slevin met with Barack Obama at the new Obama Presidential Center, which opens next month, in Chicago, and asked him the question on a lot of Democrats...

In the governor’s race in California, the leading Republican candidate appears to be Steve Hilton, a British-born political consultant and former Fox News contributor. Hilton has be...

One of Donald Trump’s few critics within his party is the libertarian-leaning senator Rand Paul, from Kentucky. Paul was recently the sole Republican to vote in favor of restricting...

The Israeli historian Omer Bartov says a “state ideology” of Zionism has led to what he calls genocide in Gaza. Plus,  Patrick Radden Keefe on his new book, “London Falling.”

Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz on the rise of the C.E.O. of OpenAI, and how allegations of deceptive behavior continue to dog one of the most powerful figures in tech.

Olga Rudenko, the editor-in-chief of the Kyiv Independent, explains how Russia is supporting Iran with drone technology, and how the worldwide shock to oil prices is helping Russia.

The actor discusses whether we can separate the art from the artist. And a senior prosecutor who couldn’t abide his department’s prosecution of his father-in-law, James Comey.

The staff writer Jon Lee Anderson on what regime change in Cuba could look like, and  the Pulitzer Prize-winner Ada Ferrer on the vexed history between the U.S. and the island.

Jonathan Haidt, who wrote “The Anxious Generation,” discusses the movement to limit social-media use by young people. And the director on her film, which was nominated for eight Oscars.