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In 2013, Ritchie Torres became New York City’s youngest elected official and the first openly L.G.B.T. person elected in the Bronx. Now he is running for Congress.http://nyer.cm/3Cn8Emw 

The photographer Guanyu Xu’s series “Temporarily Censored Home” stages the childhood home as a site of sly subversion.http://nyer.cm/9E0Zw5C 

On the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment’s passage, it is worth considering what suffragists were fighting for, why they had to fight so hard, and who, exactly, was fighting against them.http://nyer.cm/Pu5iAon 

Igbo slave descendants, who have long been regarded as second-class citizens, have begun agitating for equality.http://nyer.cm/O9HhEmL 

President Trump’s 2020 campaign strategy has two imperatives: to fire up his core supporters and to demonize the Democratic Party.http://nyer.cm/BvbVHI0 

As evidenced in this week’s Democratic debates, widespread enthusiasm for Medicare for All has forced moderates to put forward plans that are well left of the Affordable Care Act.http://nyer.cm/T4ilKk8 

What is money? From where does it derive its value? As new cryptocurrencies surface, we ask the same questions we contemplated when money was first created.http://nyer.cm/bnF0weK 

“I never in my life believed I’d be writing an editorial that describes the President of the United States as a rat,” the author of the Baltimore Sun’s viral response to Donald Trump’s tweets about Representative Elijah Cummings said.http://nyer.cm/0EajZU4 

The Reverend Bill Owens discusses his meeting with the President and his role in the civil-rights movement.http://nyer.cm/tTofUCB 

From 2012, Jill Lepore on how America came to have the most powerfully armed civilian population in the world.http://nyer.cm/KkL1h6m 

There are complex, hand-wringing-worthy problems in our social life: deficits and debts and climate change. Gun violence is not one of them.http://nyer.cm/fMWmLmH 

The sharp contrast between Tate Reeves and Bill Waller, Jr., has made for an unexpectedly entertaining summer of politicking in Mississippi—and one that may not end with the Republican primary.http://nyer.cm/hqcNYZY 

The musical form fits the material of “Moulin Rouge!” like a cancan dancer’s glove, @Alex_Lily writes.http://nyer.cm/yffX2Nr 

In his photo project “Temporarily Censored Home,” Guanyu Xu secretly transformed the home of his traditionally minded parents into a brazen art installation.http://nyer.cm/n0Jmrlz 

We are used to President Trump being divisive, but in the past couple of weeks he has made it clear that he has written off large chunks of the country and their residents.http://nyer.cm/Ps9jdj9 

This weekend, @tnyfrontrow suggests that you stream Francis Ford Coppola’s bright-toned and occasionally comedic but essentially tragic drama “Tucker: The Man and His Dream.”http://nyer.cm/FE4FcVv 

This week’s Presidential debates were yet another marker of just how thoroughly Bernie Sanders’s Medicare for All advocacy has transformed the Democratic Party.http://nyer.cm/S7vRG3i 

“She would stay here forever to hear this. He could recite the alphabet to her and she would sit here and listen to it.” Fiction by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout.http://nyer.cm/ZA4nIli 

How a swarm of deadly mosquitoes led, by an unexpected route, to the birth of Great Britain.http://nyer.cm/GROrLUE 

From a mug proclaiming “I LOVE MY DISGUSTING RODENT AND RAT INFESTED MESS” to an editorial decrying “the most dishonest man to ever occupy the Oval Office,” Baltimoreans had strong words for President Trump following his tweets about the city.http://nyer.cm/hHYsrK4