Marc Lacey

We have started a new experiment aimed at including our readers more directly in the journalistic process.

A good poem can jolt our minds into thinking about the country’s most important stories in unexpected ways, our National editor writes.

One doesn’t find outright panic in airports and on airplanes across the United States. Rather, it’s anguish that the next sneeze might be the fateful one.

“Cry Havoc,” by Michael Signer, the former mayor of Charlottesville, Va., and “The Violence Inside Us,” by the Connecticut senator Chris Murphy, grapple with racial tension, gun violence and errors of leadership.

What do more than 45 journalists spread out across the country have in common? This mission statement.

There are numerous similarities between the Simpson and Chauvin cases, including defendants who have become household names and media outlets broadcasting the cases live into homes across America.

“Run: Book One” is a timely reminder that efforts to keep prospective voters from casting their ballots are nothing new.

A prominent Afrikaner, he defended the separation of the races before helping to dismantle that system, leading to his sharing the Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela.

Photographers captured historic moments of war, grief and wonder that defined the year.

A visit to The New York Times’s Kyiv bureau stayed with an editor based in Manhattan. So too did the air alert app that is widely used to warn civilians of Russian military activity.