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Elizabeth Anderson thinks we’ve misunderstood the basis of a free and fair society.

A glimpse of life on the suburban road, featuring Russian mobsters, Fox News rage addicts, a caged man in a sex dungeon, and Dick Cheney.

On the true backstory of Meghan Markle, a.k.a. the Duchess of Sussex.

There was no doubt: Jeremy Gross had brutally murdered a convenience store clerk. All that was left to decide was his punishment. Death or life without parole? The story of a capital murder trial, as seen from the jury box.

“Neither of my parents was exactly who I thought they were.”

When Swedish teenagers hacked the phone system and turned a state-owned telecom system into a proto-Internet.

Alex drew his school’s mascot during class.Then he was suspended, arrested and deported. How high schools have embraced the Trump administration’s crackdown on MS-13 and destroyed immigrant students’ American dreams.

On the grueling nature of Chinese restaurant work and the hopes and dreams of the cooks and delivery men who have migrated to the U.S.

On the conspiracy-theorist occupiers at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge and how they’re fighting against their own best interests.

With “The Apprentice,” the TV producer mythologized Trump—then a floundering D-lister—as the ultimate titan, paving his way to the Presidency.

They’re known as the Jills. They’re two of America’s top realtors, selling the glitziest mansions in Miami. Then a place went missing—and everyday greed blossomed into full-blown extortion.

A lifelong runner is hit with a mysterious physical breakdown and forced to begin contemplating the end.

An investigation.

The reality of Silicon Valley is that it’s commerce by any means necessary. And the reality of Sandberg is that she’s excellent at it.

Sabotage and dirty dealing in the $175 billion Amazon Marketplace.

They work in hotel rooms, Airbnbs and secondhand RVs just over the state line, so that women can give birth on their own terms.

An oral history of the most important deal in sports TV history, when Rupert Murdoch and Fox stole the NFL and John Madden out from under the Big Three networks and launched a television empire.

Who is the rightful inventor of the blockbuster swimsuit known as the Kiini?

How prosecutors used bloodstain-pattern analysis to convict an innocent woman of murdering her son.

A father's death, mysterious texts, and bodily/environmental changes.

The author spends time with the reporters fighting to keep news alive in an age when the forces they cover are working equally hard to destroy them.

A generation of African American heroin users is dying in the opioid epidemic nobody talks about. The nation’s capital is ground zero.