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

How rehab recruiters are luring recovering opioid addicts into a deadly cycle.

Alaska can show us the way.

How Washington left students to drown in debt.

The science on the link is clear, but the alcohol industry has worked hard to downplay it.

And why it’s making her a flash point in the Democratic Party.

On the people who tried to vote and couldn’t.

The rise and fall of a violent underground anti-racist group.

He was the most powerful fish broker in New Bedford, America’s most valuable seafood port. The Russians who arrived looking to buy his operation were undercover agents and he told them everything.

When Elizabeth Abel returned to the Bay Area home she had rented to a fellow professor on SabbaticalHomes.com, he refused to leave or pay the back rent he owed. She moved in across the street and enlisted her famous academic colleagues to help her get back the house she had raised her children in.

The movement at Standing Rock.

Inside America’s resurgent paramilitary movement.

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.

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.