Are megafarmers Lynda and Stewart Resnick visionary philanthropists or shrewd water barons?

“Private prisons are shrouded in secrecy. I took a job as a guard to get inside—then things got crazy.”

Today, Robert Dowlut is the National Rifle Association’s top lawyer. Fifty years ago, he was convicted of murdering a woman with a handgun.

How America’s 10 biggest gunmakers do business.

The agriculture industry has known for 40 years that using antibiotics can create superbugs. Only one company has taken the science seriously.

How pop-up tax preparers make billions off the poor.

Inside the lucrative, predatory, booming world of subprime car loans.

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

A personal and legal history of assisted suicide.

Years after the era of the “superpredator,” Taurus Buchanan is still paying for a crime of his youth.

Vengeance, abuse, and the strange double standards of death penalty politics.

The dangerous corporate ethos of former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship, who is on trial after an explosion at one of his mines killed 29.

Incremental changes in abortion laws lead to a system where women “turn themselves into pretzels” just to find a doctor.

A small organic agave farmer stands firm against the collision of Big Agriculture and tequila.

The death of one Nevada man in a chaotic, unregulated, and expensive industry.

Meet a man who could be called the “Hillaryland Whisperer.”

Miriam Carey died at the hands of the Secret Service. Over a year later, her family has no real answers about what happened to her.

Ending homelessness is really quite simple: give people somewhere to live. Why’s Utah the only place willing to try it?

Inside the men’s rights movement—and the army of misogynists it spawned.

It takes a gallon of water to grow a single almond. Yet in drought-ravaged California, hedge funds are racing to plant as many new trees as they can.

The old axiom that more is better is no longer true.

What undercover investigators saw inside a factory farm.

How an education reform effort became the new Obamacare.

An experiment in public defense.

The saga of Naji Mansour.