Sabrina Tavernise

Researchers looked back at the baby-boom era and found that federal mortgage programs played a part in the country’s population upswing after World War II.

Americans have a pervasive sense they are being lied to. That has created an unpredictability in politics unseen since Donald Trump said he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue without losing voters.

Travis Fuller was from my hometown. I went back and talked with his family about how they made sense of his death, 25 years after Sept. 11.

Forget tradwives. When it comes to plummeting fertility rates, Utah is leading the country.

A preliminary report said that the fuel was clean and that the plane, which had already made two flights that day, met weight and balance requirements.

The Aspen Acres fire, near Pueblo, Colo., has burned more than 74,000 acres and destroyed hundreds of structures.

A look at the backlash to same-sex marriage — its strength, seriousness and the reasons behind it.

Modern smartphones rolled out in 2007, the year that fertility rates began falling. Two studies say that is not a coincidence.

With two swing districts, the region from Scranton to Allentown could decide control of the House, and voters are expressing profound economic distress.

Americans have soured on the projects, polls show, and the sentiment is profoundly bipartisan. How that will change our politics?

Sabrina Tavernise, a national writer-at-large, traveled to Saline Township, Mich., where the state’s first hyperscale A.I. data center is under construction. Residents are banding together to oppose the center, crossing political lines in surprising new ways.