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A writer reckons with his debts, both financial and personal.

“For so long, we’ve thought keeping our heads down and being invisible in America might help us gain acceptance — but the recent wave of racist violence has shattered that myth.”

Expropriated Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system.

A notoriously brutal industry is slowly building supports for its workers.

For years, a tactical police unit in Mount Vernon, New York, reigned with impunity—protecting drug dealers, planting evidence, brutalizing citizens. Then one of its own started covertly documenting the abuse.

What happens when we talk to animals?

The financial industry’s pursuit of profits from mobile-home communities is undermining one of the country’s largest sources of affordable housing.

A socially starved world might just be the best thing ever to happen to the private club empire — which is about to IPO.

Struggling to go legal in the underworld of finch smuggling.

An interview with the historian Robin D.G. Kelley.

A dispatch from the pandemic under Governor Kristi Noem.

What if people don’t just invent medical symptoms to get attention—what if they feign oppression, too?

How did so many rich countries get it so wrong? How did others get it so right?

The company’s AI algorithms gave it an insatiable habit for lies and hate speech. Now the man who built them can’t fix the problem.

A rider’s self-improvement project becomes a whole lot more.

The country’s hacking software is recognized the world over. Not everyone thinks it’s a good thing.

For years, employees of the Pierre enjoyed some of the most enviable union jobs in New York City. How much of that will survive the pandemic?

“My entire vocation as an investigative reporter was predicated on being able to reveal truths, and yet I could not even rustle up the evidence to convince my own mother.”

Big-riggers who make sometimes less than minimum wage are locked legal fights with the unregulated leasing industry.

Inside Andrew Cuomo’s toxic workplace.

Will the literature of the suburbs be written on TikTok?

Elite schools breed entitlement, entrench inequality—and then pretend to be engines of social change.

Before I learned about beauty, I delighted in my body. I sensed a deep well at my center, a kind of umbilical cord that linked me to a roiling infinity of knowledge and pathos that underlay the trivia of our daily lives.

She escaped a crazed psychopath at 16. Decades later, as the BTK serial killer terrorizes Wichita, she has to run for her life again. The identity of her tormentor is too chilling to believe.