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In the bloody civil war, Khaled al-Halabi switched sides. But what country does he really serve?

Could that finally be changing?

Meditations on the myth of the voiceless.

Terrorists boarded two planes in Boston and flew them into the World Trade Center. Massachusetts zeroed in on its top airport official, who has never quite recovered.

Outdated textbooks, not enough teachers, no ventilation — for millions of kids like Harvey Ellington, the public-education system has failed them their whole lives.

The West Virginia senator reaps big financial rewards from a network of coal companies with grim records of pollution, safety violations, and death.

On this ward at Morton Plant Hospital, nurses are overwhelmed by the number of new, desperate cases.

When a child vanished in Nova Scotia, online sleuths got involved in the search. Then they lost their way.

Quasi-religious group Love Has Won claimed to offer wellness advice and self-care products, but what was actually being dished out by their late leader Amy Carlson Stroud—self-professed “Mother God”—was much darker.

But the more that I tried to remind myself of the various ways in which I did, in fact, seem to have a body that was moving, with a heart that pumped blood, the more agitated I became. Being dead butted up against the so-called evidence of being alive, and so I grew to avoid that evidence because proof was not a comfort; instead, it pointed to my insanity.

The behavior geneticist Kathryn Paige Harden is waging a two-front campaign: on her left are those who assume that genes are irrelevant, on her right those who insist that they’re everything.

Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was once a regular Miami kid. Now he’s in a DC jail.

Did people first come to this continent by land or by sea?

Bill Landreth was one of the whiz kids, poking around Pentagon servers with the friends he had never met. But one of them was an FBI informant.

The boutique that defined early-aughts L.A. style has taken an unexpected turn.

Joe Biden’s very public clash with his own church.

The Charleston-based evangelicals had much in common: guns, God, Trump. What went wrong, only one of them could say.

A profile of the actor, who died Monday.

In the countryside, the endless killing of civilians turned women against the occupiers who claimed to be helping them.

Each year, hundreds of thousands of workers churn through a vast mechanism that hires and monitors, disciplines and fires. Amid the pandemic, the already strained system lurched.

They thought that they’d found the perfect New York apartment. They weren’t alone.

The death of Elijah McClain prompted a flood of more than 8,500 letters from outside the state of Colorado—all begging Governor Jared Polis for justice. The author opens every one.

Terry Albury, an idealistic F.B.I. agent, grew so disillusioned by the war on terror that he was willing to leak classified documents—and go to prison for doing it.

Seeking justice with the Trans Doe Task Force.