David Clarke, the Trump-loving, pro-mass-incarceration, Fox News favorite, is challenging criminal-justice reform—and stereotypes.

• Maurice Chammah
• 6:00 AM ET

Heidi Cruz got an elbow to the face—will Melania Trump get much more?   

• Alex Wagner
• 6:00 AM ET

Students with criminal records are compelling colleges to rethink what it means to provide opportunity to qualified students.

• Juleyka Lantigua-Williams
• 6:00 AM ET

Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu is stepping down following tensions with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

• Matt Vasilogambros
• 8:32 AM ET

Some say coding classes are key to addressing the country’s inequality. But that’s a hard feat in a place where many people don’t even have Internet access.

• Rebecca Gibian and Diana Crandall
• 7:30 AM ET

The party’s current iteration is tailor-made to defeat xenophobia and take down Donald Trump.

• Peter Beinart
• 8:05 AM ET

Give $1 billion to initiatives that spark upward mobility for people trapped at the bottom—then get a 300 percent return on investment.

• Debby Bielak and Jim Shelton
• 6:00 AM ET

The Ohio governor is expected to suspend his presidential campaign Wednesday in Columbus.

• David A. Graham
• May 4, 2016

What jargon says about armies, and the societies they serve

• Matti Friedman
• May 4, 2016

A massive blaze that’s caused thousands to evacuate a city in Alberta has been called the worst in the region’s history.

• J. Weston Phippen
• May 4, 2016

The Rhode Island Marine Archaeology Project said it knows the location of British explorer Captain James Cook’s vessel.

• J. Weston Phippen
• May 3, 2016

The group gets less attention than ISIS, but may be quietly consolidating its position out of the spotlight.

• Kathy Gilsinan
• May 2, 2016

The Shiite cleric and his supporters are likely to say he never went anywhere in the first place.

• Krishnadev Calamur
• May 2, 2016

Why it’s so hard to know

• Uri Friedman
• May 2, 2016

Baghdad declared a state of emergency Saturday after hundreds of demonstrators breached the heavily fortified Green Zone.

• Matt Ford
• Apr 30, 2016

“I still don’t like that coiffed Trump man. But I guess he’s our Republican.”

• Emma Green
• May 4, 2016

The Democratic U.S. presidential candidate secured a win over Hillary Clinton when he desperately needed it.

• Clare Foran
• May 3, 2016

The Senate majority leader is reaping the benefits of the House Freedom Caucus in a stalled Congress.

• Michelle Cottle
• May 4, 2016

A person’s age plays a role in when they think United States was at its peak—and Baby Boomers have a particularly dim view of the present.

• Andrew McGill
• May 4, 2016

The Washington-centric battle goes local, where Republican senators are most vulnerable.

• Nora Kelly
• May 4, 2016

Does the presumptive Republican nominee see African Americans and Hispanics as part of the American “we”?

• David A. Graham
• May 3, 2016

By handcuffing a new series to its online-only service, the network is trying to catch the next wave of the television industry.

• David Sims
• May 4, 2016

Both Views and Lemonade complicate the idea of conquering adversity—in very different ways.

• Spencer Kornhaber
• May 4, 2016

The event is everything awesome about fashion, stripped of the shame.

• Megan Garber
• May 3, 2016

A claymation video with a grim plot line accompanies a blessedly straightforward if nerve-wracking tune.

• Spencer Kornhaber
• May 3, 2016

The “surprise" return of a major character in the HBO show’s sixth season won’t hurt the future of small-screen storytelling.

• David Sims
• May 3, 2016

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s phenomenon topped the 15 received by The Producers in 2001 and Billy Elliot in 2009.

• Krishnadev Calamur
• May 3, 2016

Despite critics’ dismissal of activist-minded fiction, the author Lydia Millet believes that Dr. Seuss’s classic children’s book is powerful because of its message.

• Joe Fassler
• May 3, 2016

The technology was once considered superfluous, until contemporary capitalism made it a necessity. An Object Lesson.

• Michael Strickland
• May 4, 2016

A new partnership between Google and Chrysler is a reminder that self-driving cars won’t go anywhere until the public trusts they’re safe.

• Adrienne LaFrance
• May 4, 2016

But they can’t make you cough up your passcode.

• Kaveh Waddell
• May 3, 2016

Why code is so often compared to magic

• Samuel Arbesman
• May 3, 2016

The Fair Credit Reporting Act was intended to protect privacy, but its provisions have not kept pace with the changes of the information age.

• Sarah Jeong
• Apr 29, 2016

The group’s cyberwarriors are underfunded and poorly organized, but a recent shakeup could signal a change.

• Kaveh Waddell
• Apr 28, 2016

The Zika virus could open the door for a new era of gene-tweaking for pest control and disease prevention.

• Adrienne LaFrance
• Apr 26, 2016

The American president will visit the Michigan city affected by high levels of lead in drinking water.

• Krishnadev Calamur
• May 4, 2016

The rule would prohibit federal agencies from asking whether applicants for public employment have a criminal record until the final phase in the hiring process.

• Bourree Lam
• May 2, 2016

The state's governor has vetoed legislation that would have allowed weapons at public colleges.

• Matt Vasilogambros
• May 3, 2016

The state’s lawmakers said they planned to stop the order to allow more than 200,000 convicted felons the right to vote.

• J. Weston Phippen
• May 2, 2016

The Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from prisoners who argue the state prison system’s grooming policies violate their religious liberty.

• Marina Koren
• May 2, 2016

One of the circus company’s iconic acts performs for the last time Sunday.

• Marina Koren
• May 1, 2016

The Carnival vessel, carrying 700 passengers, left Miami for Havana on Sunday.

• Marina Koren
• May 1, 2016

The code that makes cells is more complex than it once seemed.

• Veronique Greenwood
• May 2, 2016

Must-reads from around the web

• Adrienne LaFrance
• May 2, 2016

“A typical person is more than five times as likely to die in an extinction event as in a car crash,” says a new report.

• Robinson Meyer
• Apr 29, 2016

A biotech company is building devices that will allow people to decipher genes in remote jungles, at sea, or even in space—and they say they’re just getting started.

• Ed Yong
• Apr 28, 2016

To find out, scientists collected poop from thousands of people—but they ended up with more questions than answers.

• Ed Yong
• Apr 28, 2016

A computational chemist is changing the way coffee makers think about water.

• Sarah Kollmorgen
• Apr 28, 2016

It’s the prototype for Google’s next self-driving car. It’s also the fastest-growing segment of the record-setting U.S. auto market.

• Derek Thompson
• May 4, 2016

The recovery is great "on average." But that doesn't mean anything, any more.

• Derek Thompson
• May 3, 2016

Cities are arguing that they, too, were damaged by risky loans, and that they should be able to take the lenders to court to regain their losses.

• Alana Semuels
• May 3, 2016

The island’s missed a major payment, and the next one could be even larger.

• Gillian B. White
• May 2, 2016

The problem with Americans’ budgets isn’t that people are too dumb to save, but that the system asks too much of them.

• Marianne Cooper
• May 2, 2016

The month’s most interesting stories about money and business from around the web

• Gillian B. White
• May 1, 2016

Knowing the right people certainly has benefits, but how long do they last?

• Gillian B. White
• Apr 29, 2016

Black and Latino students in economically prosperous cities are grade levels behind their white peers.

• Emily DeRuy
• May 3, 2016

Malia Obama will attend Harvard, but she’s waiting until her dad’s out of office.

• Adrienne Green
• May 2, 2016

Like the U.S., the U.K. is facing a growing imbalance in the number of men going to college—but is doing more to target its main minority group of poor white males.

• Jon Marcus
• May 2, 2016

Two scholars discuss the ups and downs of life as a right-leaning professor.

• Emma Green
• Apr 30, 2016

When schools ask applicants about their criminal histories, a veneer of campus safety may come at the expense of educational opportunity.

• Juleyka Lantigua-Williams
• Apr 29, 2016

Low-income students don’t have the luxury of meandering through college.

• Emily DeRuy
• Apr 28, 2016

The success of “joint use” programs in San Francisco and New York shows the benefits of opening schoolyards up to the local community.

• Gail Cornwall
• Apr 29, 2016

A decade after a judge ordered tobacco companies to acknowledge the dangers of low-tar cigarettes, they continue to dispute the scientific consensus.

• David Heath
• May 4, 2016

A new philosophy of a complicated relationship

• Julie Beck
• May 4, 2016

Drug use in Austin, Indiana—coupled with unemployment and poor living conditions—brought on a public-health crisis that some are calling a “syndemic.”

• Jessica Wapner
• May 3, 2016

The virus has been detected in Aedes albopictus, which has a larger range than Aedes aegypti, but bites humans less.

• Julie Beck
• May 2, 2016

Lower court filing fees and other minor laws can make a big difference for poorer citizens.

• Paul Kiel
• May 2, 2016

Some sexuality educators say the sooner the better.

• Stephanie Auteri
• Apr 28, 2016

A review of the available research finds that physical punishment is significantly linked to bad outcomes for kids.

• Julie Beck
• Apr 27, 2016

Conservatives and liberals agree too many Americans are locked up, but that doesn’t mean solutions will be easy to achieve.

• Clare Foran
• Apr 28, 2016

Giving people access to services and a place to stay can reduce the number living on the street. Can that be done affordably?

• Alana Semuels
• Apr 25, 2016

At the possible brink of a new nuclear arms race, questions answered during the Cold War will need to be reopened.

• Joseph Cirincione
• Apr 21, 2016

Some people think they can encourage more would-be entrepreneurs to strike out on their own using national and local policy. Can they?

• Derek Thompson
• Apr 19, 2016

The ups and downs of preventive medicine

• Julie Beck
• Apr 16, 2016

The country’s crime rate plunged dramatically over the last 25 years. What happened?

• Matt Ford
• Apr 15, 2016

The United States leads the world in dollars invested in furthering innovation. It won’t for long.

• Robinson Meyer
• Apr 8, 2016