A radical housing program in the San Francisco Bay is recognizing how women who killed their abusers deserve dignity—and a second chance.

Shared parenting is usually better for children—but the model fails for many women forced to co-parent with their abusers.

On the Camino de Santiago, a female pilgrim walks in solitude—utterly vulnerable, utterly free.

Can face-to-face meetings between a victim and an abuser—a form of restorative justice—help a society overwhelmed with bad behavior?

Many of the 230,000 women and girls in U.S. jails and prisons were abuse survivors before they entered the system. And at least 30 percent of those serving time on murder or manslaughter charges were protecting themselves or a loved one from physical or sexual violence.

Christina Kim risked everything to escape North Korea’s entrenched gender violence. She almost didn’t make it.

After Hurricane Maria, the number of women killed by their partners doubled. Survivors say the government’s misguided response has put more lives in danger.

When a writer’s husband became violent, her career threatened to vanish along with her safety.

Texans receiver DeAndre Hopkins says he owes his career to his mom. When you hear her remarkable story of survival, you’ll understand his devotion.

Dozens of convicted criminals have been hired as cops in Alaska communities. Often, they are the only applicants. In Stebbins, every cop has a criminal record, including the chief.

A profile of Lorena Bobbitt.

A group of Latina women across the country have been working in secret, turning their homes into shelters for abused immigrant women.

His rise to the top of the Billboard charts coincides with a list of criminal charges, including domestic battery by strangulation, false imprisonment, and aggravated battery of a pregnant woman.

Dominick Dunne’s account of the trial of his daughter’s murderer.

A reporter on her way out of India probes a case of a woman beaten to death by her husband in public.

A young journalist spent her days covering sexual assault and domestic violence. Then she became the story.

The road to Lhakpa Sherpa’s seventh potential summit​ has been nothing if not complicated.

“Offhand, there are maybe three times in my life I can clearly recall laughing at something really terrible. One: when my mother told me my grandfather had a heart attack. Two: when a friend and I were driving to Cape Cod and a huge bird careened into the windshield, instantly bonking itself dead. Three: when my friends tried to keep me from going home from a party because they thought my boyfriend might kill me.”

On May 12, 2014, Nicole Holder told Charlotte police that she had been assaulted by Greg Hardy. He was arrested, charged, and convicted. Then the case was dismissed on appeal. After a season out of the league, Hardy is playing for the Dallas Cowboys. Owner Jerry Jones has called him a “real leader.”

This is the story, and the photos, of what happened that night.

An essay on Floyd Mayweather Jr. as both.

The woman that the mixed martial arts star beat nearly to death tells her side of the story.

Relief pitcher Donnie Moore is best known for giving up a crucial home run during Game 5 the 1986 ALCS. It’s not what led to his suicide a few years later.

On domestic violence and the NFL.

Meet Krystal Ryan. She left her abusive husband.

Memories of happiness and troubling behavior linger during a couple's vacation.

"He could hear nothing underwater but his breathing and the rise and fall of frothed waves. Sometimes Nora appeared in front of him or off to the side, but he couldn’t talk—only wave or point. She was beautiful, a streak of light in the water. He duck-dived and his breaths rumbled in the tube. He imagined the crew back on the boat. The whole trip he had noticed how people treated him differently, an Asian with a white wife in Australia, where they didn’t belong, even without knowing he had tried to choke her and she still refused to forgive him. The mask covered his nose and he breathed out of his mouth now like he did when he was trying to sleep."