In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, digital consultant Whitney Hess began collecting the names and stories of the storm’s casualties, posting them on her blog.

Here, eight prominent persons with shifting electoral allegiances.

At last week’s town-hall debate at Hofstra University, Long Island was somewhat improbably cast in the role of “Real America.”

The book proposal Lena Dunham shopped last week accelerated a transformation already under way.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spent a jam-packed week at what might have been her final U.N. General Assembly.

Jimmy Carter's descendants show a Kennedy-esque willingness to throw themselves into a political fight.

The Rahm Emanuel now serving as Chicago mayor is not the same Rahm Emanuel who was a political celebrity as a hard-charging congressman and White House aide and chief of staff.

A look at the modern era of celebrity-baby journalism.

A decades-old method for tapping ancient reserves of ­natural gas has become the big environmental flash point of the moment.

Here, the wages of titillation.