How a Racist Scandal at the F.D.N.Y. Led to Its Biggest Suspensions Ever

The Fire Department has long faced allegations of discrimination. But after George Floyd’s murder, a thread of racist messages renewed concerns about the department’s racial climate.

Opinion | What’s Missing From the Conversation About Systemic Racism

Often-cited examples of redlining and police shootings don’t tell such a simple story.

Opinion | The World Lost a Great Philosopher This Week

A tribute to Charles W. Mills.

Opinion | Gwen Ifill Was Right About ‘Missing White Woman Syndrome’

I’ve seen it happen time and again. Missing white women and girls receive outsize media coverage when other missing people receive none.

Opinion | White Evangelicals Shun Morality for Power

They’ve been a “political arm of the Republican Party” for decades now.

How Educational Differences Are Widening America’s Political Rift

College graduates are now a firmly Democratic bloc, and they are shaping the party’s future. Those without degrees, by contrast, have flocked to Republicans.

Opinion | One Thing We Can Agree On Is That We’re Becoming a Different Country

Tolerance and intolerance are taking on many different guises.

Opinion | How Strong Is America’s Multiracial Democracy?

Recent research on racism, prejudice and politics suggests a broad range of possibilities.

Opinion | What the ‘Majority Minority’ Shift Really Means for America

The census should collect data about race. But we should stop obsessing over it.

Opinion | How Our Classrooms Became Battlegrounds

Our schools have long been spaces for right-wing extremist panic to disguise itself as a defense of children.

Racial Inequities Persist in Health Care Despite Expanded Insurance

A series of studies in an influential medical journal takes a close look at longstanding gaps in medical care.

Opinion | It Was a Terrifying Census for White Nationalists

The white power acolytes saw this train approaching from a distance, and they did everything they could to head it off.

J.D. Vance Converted to Trumpism. Will Ohio Republicans Buy It?

As the “Hillbilly Elegy” author runs for Senate in Ohio, he has walked back previous criticism of Donald Trump and reversed arguments that the white working class bears responsibility for its problems.

The March of the Karens

The name has come to represent an entitled and belligerent white woman. But what does this narrative say — and elide — about racism and sexism today?

Opinion | ‘Lean Into It. Lean Into the Culture War.’

Is it Democrats or Republicans who are tearing us apart?

William H. Regnery II, 80, Dies; Bankrolled the Rise of the Alt-Right

The reclusive heir to a Midwestern textile fortune, he sought, through funding and organizing, to upgrade and update white supremacy.

Opinion | The Christian Right Is in Decline, and It’s Taking America With It

White evangelicals can't tolerate becoming just another subculture.

Opinion | Trump’s Cult of Animosity Shows No Sign of Letting Up

As long as the former president dominates the G.O.P., “this animosity coalition will define the party.”