Marc Lacey

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

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.

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

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.

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

“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.

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.

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

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

With one of the largest teams of national correspondents in the business, we help the country to understand itself. Watch with us on Tuesday as we co-sponsor the Democratic debate.

Journalists spend a great deal of time and attention on the very first paragraph of their articles — the lede. That’s why we honor the best ones.

James and Deborah Fallows, flying around in a small propeller airplane, embarked on a years-long journey to the heartland of America, which they recount in “Our Towns.”

Our national editor responds to readers’ feedback, most of it highly critical, of our profile of a white nationalist in Ohio.

The New York Times’s National editor, Marc Lacey — a former reporter and correspondent — considers the question.

Representative Gabrielle Giffords’s staff said Monday’s appearance on the House floor did not signal a new public phase to her life.

The governor also rejected a controversial bill that would have required presidential candidates to produce proof of citizenship.

Family, friends, aides, health workers and the president will join Representative Gabrielle Giffords as she watches her husband return to space on Friday.

Gov. Jan Brewer, a Republican, said on Monday that she would petition the U.S. Supreme Court to lift an injunction blocking some portions of Arizona’s controversial immigration law.

Prosecutors say the release of autopsy reports for the six people killed in the Tucson rampage could interfere with a fair trial.

Autopsy reports released in Tucson detailed the wounds that killed six people in a shooting attack in January.