A format that favored sharp questions and pithy answers, and emphasized style as well as policy substance, drew in an unprecedentedly large—and young—audience.

Chicago’s police abuse scandal gets an update. That these abuses occurred in a deep blue city in one of the bluest states in the country shouldn’t surprise us.

At a time when the ship is heading for the rocks, a riot has broken out on the poop deck.

In June, Blue Cross and Blue Shield asked for an average premium hike of roughly 26 percent (on top of this year’s 13.5 percent increase). Now it is saying that number is too low and it will need a 34.6 increase.

The paradox that’s helping to drive the sex wars on campus: “liberated” sex often works out better for young men than for young women.

Shale’s resilience has put Saudi Arabia and the rest of the world’s petrostates in a very tight spot.

200 dead in latest tragedy. What would happen if they’d died on an Airbus, rather than a boat?

Oil services companies are lowering their prices and even acting as lenders to help keep the shale industry afloat.

The Secretary of State doubled down on a firm American stance against China’s claims to territory in the South China Sea around freshly built artificial islands, saying that the U.S. will not accept any action that threatens freedom of navigation.

Last night’s debate was perhaps the first of its kind, sporting a format attuned to where Americans are.