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The president's problem with young voters isn't as dire as some recent surveys have indicated, a major new poll of young Americans shows. But the level of disenchantment is still serious, and lowered turnout is a significant risk for Democrats.

Politics are changing in the Rio Grande Valley. Is it the breakdown of machine politics, or gerrymandering? A return to true Mexican family values, or a betrayal of them?

Fossil fuel workers are part of a new coalition pushing California to do more on clean energy.

 

The Times took a deep look at America's immigrants and found optimism. Among the rest of the U.S., though, pessimism rules, especially about politics.

I went to the "Galapagos of North America" to experience the wilderness. The biggest obstacle to enjoyment turned out to be my smartphone.

The Times partnered with the nonprofit KFF to do a large-scale poll of U.S. immigrants and put their voices and stories at the forefront.

A lot more people are ditching gasoline for electric cars.

Competing visions of the future are driving a wedge between clean energy companies and traditional environmentalists.

Las Vegas and Phoenix have always endured broiling summers, but the scale and duration of this heat wave has brought new levels of misery.