George Soros

A covert campaign to entrap and discredit people linked to rights groups in Hungary has added fuel to longstanding complaints of democratic backsliding in the country.

Alex Soros will take the reins of Open Society Foundations, a grant-making network, from his father, whose support of liberal causes has long made him a boogeyman of the right.

After weeks of embarrassing disclosures, the Wall Street giant reached a tentative settlement with the convicted sex offender's victims.

Some Republican states are rejecting what was, until a few months ago, widely agreed to be the single best program for keeping voter rolls accurate and up-to-date.

Lawmakers and Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, agreed that artificial intelligence should be regulated. How to do that remains an open question.

Hours after pleading not guilty to 34 counts of filing false business records, former President Donald J. Trump maintained his innocence before a crowd of supporters in Florida. Here’s a fact-check.

Conspiracy theorists have long attributed wildly varied events to George Soros, in attacks often viewed as antisemitic. His indirect donations to a prosecutor’s campaign are animating Trump allies.

Donald Trump’s allies have accused the district attorney bringing a case against him as having been “bought” by Mr. Soros, the philanthropist. That is misleading, though the men do have a financial connection.

In the money race between America’s billionaires and small donors, the emerging political oligarchy is showing staying power. Both parties have megadonors, but Republicans have far more.

The result is a painful restructuring to focus on the fight against rising authoritarianism around the world.