The path to the White House and the first years there, told with detachment and, occasionally, flashes of anger and self-deprecating humor.

China is not the juggernaut of Wall Street financiers’ imaginations, but that doesn’t make its expansionism any less of a threat.

Ancient ideas about the common good underlay the Founding Fathers’ understanding of a civil society.

A critic unlocks his hoard of ‘scavenged wisdom.’

The long-unsolved killing of a graduate student prompts a meditation on a reporter’s own obsession.

Early 19th-century lawsuits held out the hope that enslaved people could have their day in court.

Selected by Tim Tate, author of ‘Hitler’s British Traitors.’

A transcontinental race by biplane and a mad quest to summit the world’s highest peak.

A young anthropologist’s journey to Alaska led to the discovery that wilderness is just another place to find home.

On the streets of Brighton, death comes in pints.

In Charles Baxter’s ‘The Sun Collective,’ Minneapolis nice has a dark side.

The five finalists for this year’s National Book Award for Young People’s Literature.

She was a model and muse, but Joanna Hiffernan was also a partner in Whistler’s revolutionary art.

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Robert Harris’s latest World War II thriller features sophisticated weaponry, devious Nazis, moral compromise and Allied ingenuity.

From a foreign correspondent’s files: a tough police chief, a sybaritic governor, a reluctant fundamentalist, a champion of human rights.

China aspires to geopolitical hegemony, but the Communist government may first need to deal with its waste and filth.

You may be surprised to learn that what you bought on a digital entertainment platform, like Amazon and others, may not be yours to keep.

During disease outbreaks, constitutional governments afford themselves vast powers. The problem? Giving those powers back.