This is the introduction to Checks and Balance, a weekly, subscriber-only newsletter in which our writers turn their gaze to the latest political developments in America.

Higher education can—and should—fight the Trump administration, but the age of lavish government support is coming to a close.

The founder and chief executive of the advertising agency Hinglish, Shubham Gune said he was inspired to make the proposal after being disappointed by his experiences with dating and matrimony ...

The Trump administration has taken the government shutdown as an opportunity to end federal oversight of the education ...

The make-up pioneer talks about returning to the industry after 25 years and working fashion shows with baby vomit down her back ...

A collaborative work by a photographer, a poet, and an artist, “The Harlem Book of the Dead,” newly reissued, tells stories through funerary portraits.