Things were going poorly for the Republicans’ midterm campaigns even before Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign ran the most offensive ad of the year.

Donald Trump has tried to purge voter rolls nationwide. Deidre Henderson, the Republican lieutenant governor of Utah, is among the chief election officers standing in his way.

The mountaineer and his partner, Hilaree Nelson, planned a first-ever descent, Nick Paumgarten writes. After her death, he pushed on.

In Switzerland, Thomas Rau offers treatments that many conventional doctors would question. Now he’s accused of lethally negligent care.

Since taking up his post in Paris, Kushner has become known for lobbing provocations onto France’s domestic scene at sensitive moments. As he put it, “Nobody has the courage to say what I say.”

Renzo Cozza’s short film gives a classic monster a moral dilemma.

Facing severe political attacks and threats, Muslim civil-liberties activists in Texas are urging their communities to vote.

A matchup between the Milwaukee Brewers and the Tampa Bay Rays was considered a “nightmare,” a bloodbath of small-ball hermeneutics. But the two old-school, thrifty teams have turned the Fall Classic into a showcase for what money can’t buy.

Two years ago, Sherrod Brown, who built his career as an avatar of blue-collar frustration, lost his Senate seat in Ohio as working-class voters defected to Trump. Now he and his party are looking to make up lost ground.

Democrats around the country dream of a blue wave in Texas. Organizers and voters say they need more of an irrigation system. Can the Party leaders build it?

After Brazil’s election, and ahead of the U.S. midterms, progressives and liberals around the world find cause to celebrate.

As the President and his party launch a wave of bigoted attacks on Abdul El-Sayed, Bishara Bahbah, the founder of Arab Americans for Trump, says he may have been naïve.

A majority of Israelis rejected the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but forming a coalition could require breaking taboos.

The Texas Democrat has stretched his closing message to encompass Beyoncé, the biblical David, and “Friday Night Lights.” Is that what it takes to flip the state?

A visual tour of the Place de la République, a site of protests and political conflict in Paris for the past 150 years.

Democrats are running avowedly Christian candidates in November’s midterms. Adam Hamilton’s campaign is surprisingly competitive.

In India, a group of uncles plan to subvert the A.I. that is replacing them, in Pranav Bhasin’s mockumentary that celebrates the weirdness of regular intelligence.

The former President’s riff on Saddam Hussein, the Cheesecake Factory, and our gold-besotted leader was not only funny but politically brilliant.

In seeking to revoke the citizenship of a sitting congresswoman, the Trump Administration has sent a chilling message about dissent, loyalty, and who gets to be an American.

Abdul El-Sayed fears that high-profile attacks have compromised his safety—but he also argues that they’ve given him “one of the biggest and best platforms.”