Evan Osnos

Why the “cringe-millennial” production value of the 2024 D.N.C. is outplaying the macho bravado of this year’s R.N.C.

I visited your room once to bring the book back but all we did was talk—you in shorts and me using your dumbbells. Was there a chance that night?

The city was designed to be an entertainment capital—and shows up across our entertainment landscape, from “Hacks” to “The Hangover.” How do such cultural overlays shape our understanding of the very real place underneath?

Songs for when you have test results waiting in the portal, and more.

The Times columnist was an early advocate for replacing Joe Biden at the top of the ticket; in recent weeks, his podcast has seemed like the smoke-filled back room of the Democratic Party.

Donald Trump has dominated in polling of people who pay little attention to political news. What do they have to say?

“The enthusiasm is real, but I don’t think it’s so much around an agenda of Harris’s as much as it is around an agenda of stopping Trump,” Susan B. Glasser says.

“How the once narrow term has come to be weaponized as "informational terrorism."

“All you have to do is figure out what it is that he talks about in self-defense and poke him,” says the co-founder of the Lincoln Project.

“We always have a gender gap,” the independent Democratic pollster Celinda Lake says. “It looks like it’s going to be on steroids this year.”