Why Arbitration Works for Baseball but Not for Health Care

Players vs. teams. Doctors vs. insurers. How the same method for resolving pay disputes has led to wildly different results.

By Sarah Kliff, Margot Sanger-Katz and Alicia Parlapiano

Trump’s Vision for A.I. Dominance Comes With Major Air Pollution

By Hiroko Tabuchi

Play Our Game to Rank Your Top Thrillers

Play our game, and see what other readers think.

By Josh Katz and Aliza Aufrichtig

Public Records Requests Are Surging. The Government Is Falling Behind.

A Times analysis of 16 years of available federal data shows federal agencies lag in processing requests for government records.

By Minho Kim

President Trump’s Approval Rating: Latest Polls

Track the latest approval rating and polls on Americans’ approval of President Trump.

By Annie Daniel, Jon Huang, Ruth Igielnik, Jasmine C. Lee, Alex Lemonides, Jonah Smith, Caroline Soler, Albert Sun and Rumsey Taylor

Why the Polling in Michigan Was Off the Mark

Surveys greatly overestimated how Dr. Abdul El-Sayed would fare in the state’s Democratic Senate primary, revealing some typical polling challenges.

By Ruth Igielnik

The Coalitions That Propelled El-Sayed’s Michigan Victory

Racial and ethnic splits, and a wide lead among younger voters, were enough for Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive, to hold off Haley Stevens, a moderate, in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary.

By Caroline Soler, Christine Zhang, Evan Reynolds, Alex Lemonides and Ilana Marcus