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Patrick Healy, the deputy Opinion editor, hosted an online conversation with the Times Opinion columnists Jamelle Bouie, Ross Douthat, M. Gessen and Lydia Polgreen about Donald Trump's preparations for a [...]

In its upcoming term, the Supreme Court will once again hear a case that involves a highly contentious question that lies at the heart of personal liberty: Who should decide [...]

Our world is more connected than ever. But it's never been easier to find yourself shepherded into a comfortable herd made up of close friends or political allies, your social [...]

I remember the moment I knew that Kamala Harris was not the candidate for me in the 2020 presidential race. It was just a few days before the second Democratic [...]

The Middle East is in crisis. The war in Ukraine grinds on. Conventional wisdom says that Americans don't base their voting on foreign affairs. Will this year be different? Four [...]

ADRE, Chad -- The janjaweed are back. The Arab militiamen some call by that fearsome name -- a term that loosely translates as ''devils on horseback'' -- stopped Adam Abakar [...]

In a recently published profile of the former CNN executive Jeff Zucker, a tidbit of news caught my eye. Zucker, who has a venture fund with $1 billion to invest, [...]

In the homestretch of the epic Wisconsin Supreme Court race that ended last week with a blowout victory for liberals, voters' cellphones pinged incessantly with text message ads. ''Woke trans [...]

When a fire broke out last week at a Mexican detention center for migrants and asylum seekers in Ciudad Juárez, just across the border from El Paso, it seemed like [...]

ADIYAMAN, Turkey -- Beneath each fresh mound in this rapidly expanding graveyard lies a tragedy. One morning at dawn, Zeki Karababa told me about his. Karababa's brother, Hamit; Hamit's wife, [...]

JINDIRES, Syria -- She has no memory of the earthquake that broke her back and swallowed her daughters. Khaira Al Halbouni only knows what her husband told her afterward. In [...]

It is enraging but not particularly surprising that our health care system is failing the most essential of its workers. Nurses are the keystone holding up our rickety and raggedly [...]

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- The gunmen who invaded Christelle Pierre's neighborhood in July gave her a stark choice: run or die. She was six months pregnant with her first child. The [...]

Each Saturday, Farhad Manjoo and Mike Isaac, technology reporters at The New York Times, review the week's news, offering analysis and maybe a joke or two about the most important [...]

BLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa -- When Freddy Kenny started his business selling vegetables out of a battered pickup truck in the 1970s, a siren used to sound over this city, his [...]

MAMELODI, South Africa -- Regina Matshega was gossiping with a neighbor over a fence between their shacks in the Phomolong squatter camp last month when a very unexpected sight suddenly [...]

BREDASDORP, South Africa -- As Anene Booysen lay dying, she whispered to her medics the name of the man who had assaulted her and left her lying in the dirt [...]

Zimbabwe's highest court ordered that national elections be held before the end of July, speeding up the expected timetable to choose a new Parliament and hold a presidential vote. President [...]

TIMBUKTU, Mali -- When the moment of danger came, Ali Imam Ben Essayouti knew just what to do. The delicate, unbound parchment manuscripts in the 14th-century mosque he leads had [...]

TIMBUKTU, Mali -- When the Islamist militants came to town, Dr. Ibrahim Maiga made a reluctant deal. He would do whatever they asked -- treat their wounded, heal their fevers, [...]

KONNA, Mali -- French special forces took control of the airport in the Islamic rebel stronghold of Gao, the French government said Saturday, meeting ''serious resistance'' from militants even as [...]

CATEME, Mozambique -- When Augusto Conselho Chachoka and his neighbors heard that the world's biggest coal mine was to be built on their land, a tantalizing new future floated before [...]

JOHANNESBURG -- In an attempt to stanch a spreading crisis in South Africa's platinum and gold mining regions, the government said Friday that it would crack down on illegal gatherings [...]

LUANDA, Angola -- From his doorstep, Paulo Silva can see emblems of his country's transformation from war-addled basket case to petroleum powerhouse. A flock of cranes hovers over a skyline [...]

Erratic rains and farming problems have reduced this year's maize harvest in Zimbabwe by a third, and 1.6 million people will need food aid, the World Food Program said Friday. [...]

JOHANNESBURG -- During apartheid, in the coastal municipality of Overstrand, just east of Cape Town, whites lived in plush, seaside enclaves whereas blacks and mixed race people lived in ugly [...]

CANDU, South Africa -- The court's verdict was swift and sure: Nomvulo Ludonga was guilty as charged. To atone for her offense, Ms. Ludonga, a widowed schoolteacher, had to give [...]

HARARE, Zimbabwe -- When Zimbabweans say they are waiting for change, they are usually talking about politics. After all, the country has had the same leader since 1980. But these [...]

JOHANNESBURG -- Malawi's vice president, Joyce Banda, was sworn in as president on Saturday, ending a tense 36 hours of speculation and confusion about the future of one of central [...]

LUCKNOW, India -- The first doctor to die, a senior government health administrator, was shot on his morning walk last October by two men on a motorbike. Six months later, [...]

NEW DELHI -- Thousands of bullet-riddled bodies are buried in dozens of unmarked graves across Kashmir, a state human rights commission inquiry has concluded, many of them likely to be [...]

SRINAGAR, Kashmir -- By this time last summer, this beleaguered city was a war zone. Dozens of people had been killed in deadly clashes between stone-throwing protesters and heavily armed [...]

NEW DELHI -- Voters in northern and eastern Sri Lanka gave an alliance of parties closely linked to the defeated Tamil Tiger insurgency majorities in 18 of 26 local council [...]

NEW DELHI -- At least two prime ministers -- one future and one former -- have spent a few nights behind its high walls. Its current occupants include three members [...]

NEW DELHI -- India's central government, convulsed by a series of corruption scandals, is under increasing pressure to deal with the potentially conflicting challenges of rising inflation and slowing growth. [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED NEW DELHI -- Mahitosh Sarkar came here from his distant village in West Bengal 12 years ago looking for a better life, and he found it. He abandoned [...]

MADOOR, India -- India's rapidly growing private microcredit industry faces imminent collapse as almost all borrowers in one of India's largest states have stopped repaying their loans, egged on by [...]

AURANGABAD, India -- For decades this central Indian city was vintage old India: crumbling Mughal-era ruins and ancient Buddhist caves surrounded by endless parched acres from which farmers coaxed cotton. [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED CHENNAI, India -- Chezi K. Ganesan looks every inch the high-tech entrepreneur, dressed in the Silicon Valley uniform of denim shirt and khaki trousers, slick smartphone close at [...]

NEW DELHI -- Thousands of people defied round-the-clock curfews in the disputed province of Kashmir on Wednesday, burning police vehicles in the streets of the state's summer capital, Srinagar, shouting [...]

MALANG, India -- Buddhi Devi was 14 when she was betrothed. In India, that is not unusual: many marry young. Her intended was a boy from her village who was [...]

NEW DELHI -- The Indian Army deployed on the streets of the disputed region of Kashmir on Wednesday, seeking to quell angry street protests that have convulsed the valley. The [...]

BANTA, India -- Chanchala Devi always wanted a house. Not a mud-and-stick hut, like her current home in this desolate village in the mineral-rich, corruption-corroded state of Jharkhand, but a [...]

NEW DELHI -- The trains arrive with a whisper. The doors slide open and a puff of refrigerated air confronts the city's summertime miasma. A bell dings, the doors close [...]

PATNA, India -- For decades the sprawling state of Bihar, flat and scorching as a griddle, was something between a punch line and a cautionary tale, the exact opposite of [...]

PANCHKULA, India -- She was a gifted 14-year-old tennis player who idolized Steffi Graf and hoped to turn pro. He was a senior police official and president of the state [...]

Jaffna is a city of ruins. Some are physical, like the overgrown jumbles of mold-streaked concrete where graceful buildings used to stand. But perhaps the biggest ruin of the Tamil [...]

Under harsh fluorescent lights, dozens of heads bend over keyboards, the clattering unison of earnest typing filling the room. Monitors flicker with insurance forms, time sheets and customer service e-mail […]

Their lonely-hearts faces peer out of the advertisements, hangdog and looking for love. 'Hi, I am Musti,' one poster reads. 'I am a well-mannered, good-looking and considerate hunk. I am […]

When the prime ministers of India and Pakistan met recently on the sidelines of a regional summit meeting in Egypt, they hammered out a joint statement that seemed to point […]