The 2016 presidential race is teeming with raisins. Sorry…scandals.

The GOP nominee's debate responses on national security issues have to be read to be believed.

The deal to fight the mosquito-borne virus came after lawmakers dropped a controversial provision to block payments to Planned Parenthood for women's health care.

Twenty years ago, welfare as Americans knew it ended. President Bill Clinton signed a welfare overhaul bill that limited benefits and encouraged poor people to find jobs. "We're going to make it all new again, and see if we can't create a system of incentives which reinforce work and family and independence," Clinton said at a White House bill signing ceremony. The goals were admirable: help poor families get into the workforce so they'd no longer need government aid. They'd get job training and support, such as help with child care.

The two top Republicans in Congress are talking about changing legislation allowing victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to sue Saudi Arabia -- less than 24 hours after Congress took the extraordinary step of overriding President Barack Obama’s veto of the measure to make it law.

The Times obtained records from 1995 that show that Donald J. Trump declared a loss of $916 million.

Today, it's iconic. But for a long time, the Lincoln Memorial was incredibly controversial. Vox's Phil Edwards looked into the full story.

For the third time since The Atlantic’s founding, the editors endorse a candidate for president. The case for Hillary Clinton.

Meet the man who was Trump before Trump was Trump.

Allana Harkin and Amy Hoggart spoke to folks who are convinced that this election is most definitely rigged, sort of.

On soap opera set, the GOP nominee bragged about groping and trying to have sex with women.

he's made three separate trips to the Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) office in Milwaukee to get a photo ID so he can vote in next month's general election. Each time he's come away empty-handed.

John Oliver examines the legal and moral issues surrounding the military prison at Guantánamo Bay.

Two Chicago police officers uncovered a massive criminal enterprise within the department. Then they were hung out to dry. By Jamie Kalven.

America’s Olympic athletes will no longer pay a so-called victory tax under a bill President Barack Obama has signed into law.

The 2010 election may have pulled off the biggest political heist in modern times. David Daley, interviewed by Dave Denison.

The shackles are off, Republican nominee says.

While Donald Trump’s candidacy poses grave dangers, so does group-think righteousness.

There is a massive gender split, with Clinton trailing Trump by 11 percentage points among men but leading him by 33 points among women.