Emily Witt

In a Los Angeles suburb, multigenerational families like the Benns found affordable housing and a deep sense of connection. After the devastating fires, many wonder whether they’ll be able to rebuild what they’ve lost.

With four fires raging, tens of thousands have evacuated and others are confronting the precarity of where they live.

In Georgia, Barack Obama spoke of character, and in Michigan, Michelle Obama reminded voters of the stakes for women’s lives.

A bellwether county in Wisconsin appears evenly divided in the final stretch.

At campaign stops in southeastern Georgia and New Hampshire, the Democratic candidate tried to win voters in counties outside her party’s strongholds.

With Kamala Harris preparing to take the spotlight at the D.N.C., Party factions seek to project unity and joy.

Less than a week after the Republican National Convention took over Milwaukee, Harris spoke at a high-school rally there to a crowd of ebullient Democrats.

On Friday night, before the party, I put a single drop of LSD into a glass of water. I drank half, and Andrew drank the other half. For the next couple of hours, while he made beats in his studio, I lay in bed with my eyes closed, listening to one of the final mixes made by Andrew Weatherall, a British d.j. who had got his start in the nineteen-eighties club scene and had recently died. The tracks had titles like “Jagged Mountain Melts at Dawn” and “The Descending Moonshine Dervishes.” I sat up…

The couple figured that Caltrans, the California state transportation authority, was likely to close the road. Mary Lu, who was driving, steered carefully past the crumbled edge of the highway, staying in the northbound lane, so that her husband would make his flight. They were on a stretch of coast with no cell service, on the sole road that gives access to their region. There are no official borders to Big Sur, a seventy-five-mile span of the California coast which, because of both challenging…

On Thursday afternoon, the day of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ home opener at Dodger Stadium, it was not raining, so Ohtani, the team’s biggest star and the world’s greatest baseball player, had the conversation to himself. Not that he participates in it: Ohtani is so private that his rare public disclosures, no matter how anodyne, generate frenzies of interest. In November, when he accepted his second M.V.P award, he revealed that he had a dog, a Nederlandse kooikerhondje named Dekopin, or Decoy, f…