Lofgren, the chair of California’s 43-member Democratic delegation, consulted in June with a trusted data expert who dismissed it as absurd — a foolhardy end-run around the state’s popular redistricting panel with no guarantee of yielding enough blue seats to fully offset Texas.

Vice President Kamala Harris, like many women politicians now and before her, has faced people solely calling her by her first name. The disparity can be a sign of respect, or disrespect, and it's often hard to distinguish between the two.

A directive by the Trump administration may undercut universities’ efforts to pursue a diverse student body in Chicago schools, experts say.

Some museums are changing or canceling exhibits, especially those that involve artworks that engage with gender, sexuality and race.

There was a certain awful predictability about the F.B.I.’s Friday-morning raids targeting the former Trump adviser turned critic John Bolton.

Hundreds of pages of damning filings in Smartmatic’s $2.7 billion lawsuit against Fox became newly available to the public this week after the court removed substantial redactions to the documents.

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Trump has a newfound taste for state involvement in the private sector. It’s a palette Sanders has long enjoyed.