News in Brief In Baltimore, a Stealth Operation Against One of America’s Darkest Legacies The city's removal of Confederate statues in the dead of night was Baltimore's latest attempt to make peace with the ghosts of the Civil War. See More
News in Brief For Want of Voter Fraud, It Had to Be Invented Voter fraud has become a major cause for some politicians on the right, but one may have taken it too far. See More
News in Brief Does the NSA Tap That? What We Still Don’t Know About the Agency’s Internet Surveillance In a secret effort, the National Security Agency appears to be vacuuming up large swathes of the Internet. See More