Many American cities have dire public transport systems, but it hasn't always been this way. How did they get so bad and how ...

Most of the victims of the Los Angeles fires were elderly. Their deaths offer a warning to the entire country about the threat climate disasters pose to society’s oldest and most vulnerable members.

Residents face the daunting prospect of rebuilding their homes in this once-thriving historically Black community.

At 88, historian David Levering Lewis, a biographer of W.E.B. DuBois, has filled in gaps in his knowledge of his own family ...