As thousands of Chinese families take DNA tests, the results are upending what adoptees abroad thought they knew about their origins.

Since the earliest days of the Republic, American citizenship has been contested, subject to the anti-democratic impulses of racism, suspicion, and paranoia.

Can the Administration retain public support for a trade policy that could force Americans to buy less stuff?

A young democracy activist fled Venezuela, where the government threatened to arrest her for treason. Now in ICE custody, she knows that she may be quickly deported.

Laila Soueif’s effort to free her son, Alaa Abd el-Fattah, a British citizen, from an Egyptian prison is a study in personal protest.

In New York City, a shadow economy helps new arrivals find a place to sleep. Sometimes it’s just a bed and a curtain.

Dozens of religious leaders experienced magic mushrooms in a university study. Many are now evangelists for psychedelics.

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Trump, Putin, and a collapsing global order.

T.S.A. workers protect America’s transportation systems. Now their own protections are being stripped away.

For many of Donald Trump’s followers, his appeal has an almost mystical dimension. What happens when the spell breaks?

On the “free” airplane from Qatar, and an American President with a self-interested foreign policy a sheikh could admire.

America’s TV-obsessed President has made his rambling Oval Office press gaggles the signature of his second term—chaotic, self-aggrandizing, random, and frequently nasty.