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His verbal stumbles have voters worried about his mental fitness. Maybe they’d be more understanding if they knew he’s still fighting a stutter.

Inside America’s fast-growing civilian tactical training industry.

It’s a multilevel marketing company called AdvoCare. Or maybe it’s a pyramid scheme.

On the controversy behind the False Memory Syndrome Foundation.

Following the United Nations’ war crimes detectives who tracked down a man who helped unleash the Rwandan genocide of 1994.

On the moral responsibility to break unjust laws.

When she was a 15-year-old runaway, the writer was nearly killed by a truck driver. Twenty-seven years later, she investigates whether her attacker was truck stop serial killer Robert Ben Rhoades, who often kept his victims chained in the back of his truck for weeks before killing and dumping them.

The Capitol was breached by Trump supporters who had been declaring, at rally after rally, that they would go to violent lengths to keep the President in power. A chronicle of an attack foretold.

On modern motherhood and the birth narrative.

An oral history of Wikipedia.

On Black nonchalance.

Gold and diamond grills. Stilettos you can’t walk in. Grandly arching fingernails, lovingly adorned. Such flouting of functionality is an obvious fuck-­you to the days of scrutinized teeth at auctions and picking cotton on plantations.

As the wilderness gets overrun, the most hated man in the Rockies finds an audience of emulators and antagonists.

On the rescue in July of two children from a burning apartment in southern France.

“I decided that if he would not tell us his story, then I would.”

Ghanaian sculptor El Anatsui is redefining Africa’s place in the global art scene.

A history of the ultimate political weapon, which we’ve never understood how to use.

It was a fraught, utterly uncharted presidential transition—four years ago, from Obama to Trump. It was a prelude for so much that followed.

The inside story of the megadonor and the Chinese casino money flooding our elections.

A Capitol rioter tells his story from inside.

On the Capitol assault.

Some people may treat the appearance of a Confederate flag as another bit of absurdity, but I’ve never had the luxury of taking it in any way other than literally and seriously.

Brian Kelly, The Points Guy, has created an empire dedicated to maximizing credit-card rewards and airline miles. What are they worth in a global pandemic — and why are they worth anything at all?

A profile of Zendaya.

The stories that sprung up around if not quite about Trump were as brutal and lazy as the man himself; they teased themselves endlessly from one episode to the next, building toward a brutal grand finale in which America’s heroes would murder its villains, on TV, at some time to-be-determined.

Thirty years after it was first pioneered, the Brain Fingerprinting system is finally being put to the test.