To Stay or To Go?
Amid coronavirus outbreaks, migrants face the starkest of choices: Risking their lives in U.S. detention or returning home to the dangers they fled.
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Amid coronavirus outbreaks, migrants face the starkest of choices: Risking their lives in U.S. detention or returning home to the dangers they fled.
Hannah Dreier Washington Post Dec 2020 20min Permalink
The dark secret life of The Great Zucchini, Washington D.C.’s most sought after children’s birthday party entertainer.
Gene Weingarten Washington Post Jan 2006 25min Permalink
An early history of the 2020 presidential campaign.
Ashley Parker, Josh Dawsey, Matt Viser, Michael Scherer Washington Post Nov 2020 40min Permalink
A mother’s fight to save a Black, mentally ill 11-year-old boy in a time of a pandemic and rising racial unrest.
Hannah Dreier Washington Post Oct 2020 Permalink
In Georgia, what happened when a ‘nice guy’ named Kevin Van Ausdal ran for Congress against a candidate known for her support of extremist conspiracy theories.
Stephanie McCrummen Washington Post Oct 2020 20min Permalink
Florida’s tourism economy crashed, leaving dozens of low-wage workers trapped in a crumbling motel without electricity.
Greg Jaffe Washington Post Sep 2020 20min Permalink
Converging in a tense section of Huntsville: A white police officer fresh from de-escalation training, a troubled black woman with a gun, and a crowd with cellphones ready to record.
Hannah Dreier Washington Post Jul 2020 20min Permalink
Clint Lorance had been in charge of his platoon for only three days when he ordered his men to kill three Afghans stopped on a dirt road. A second-degree murder conviction and pardon followed. Today, Lorance is hailed as a hero by President Trump. His troops have suffered a very different fate.
Greg Jaffe Washington Post Jun 2020 15min Permalink
Clint Lorance had been in charge of his platoon for only three days when he ordered his men to kill three Afghans stopped on a dirt road. A second-degree murder conviction and pardon followed. Today, Lorance is hailed as a hero by President Trump. His troops have suffered a very different fate.
Greg Jaffe Washington Post Jul 2020 30min Permalink
Tatiana Angulo came to the U.S. legally and was trying to do everything right. Then came the coronavirus.
Hannah Dreier Washington Post Jun 2020 15min Permalink
A preview from Georgia about how America might reemerge from the coronavirus.
Stephanie McCrummen Washington Post May 2020 20min Permalink
She tore up a picture of the pope. Then her life came apart. These days, she just wants to make music.
Geoff Edgers Washington Post Mar 2020 15min Permalink
The reckonings of one of the South’s white suburban women, whose loyalty is key to whether Trump is reelected.
Stephanie McCrummen Washington Post Mar 2020 20min Permalink
The government required him to see a therapist. He thought his words would be confidential. Now, the traumatized migrant may be deported.
Hannah Dreier Washington Post Feb 2020 20min Permalink
For more than 50 years, world governments have trusted a single Swiss code-making machine company to keep the communications of their spies, soldiers, and diplomats secret. It turns out that company was run by the CIA.
Greg Miller Washington Post Feb 2020 Permalink
U.S. officials constantly said they were making progress during the war in Afghanistan. They were not, and they knew it.
Craig Whitlock Washington Post Dec 2019 30min Permalink
On the rise of telemedicine in rural America, where the number of ER patients has surged by 60 percent in the past decade as the number of doctors and hospitals has declined by up to 15 percent.
Eli Saslow Washington Post Nov 2019 15min Permalink
In Kansas, girls didn’t have a wrestling championship. Mya Kretzer changed that.
Liz Clarke Washington Post Nov 2019 15min Permalink
Doctors are disappearing from rural America.
Eli Saslow Washington Post Sep 2019 20min Permalink
In 2007, 47 dogs were rescued from an illegal dogfighting ring organized by NFL quarterback Michael Vick. They could have been euthanized. Instead, they became family pets.
Emily Giambalvo Washington Post Sep 2019 20min Permalink
The students swore they weren’t racists. A judge would decide their fate.
Jessica Contrera Washington Post Jul 2019 25min Permalink
A profile of the songwriter.
David Malitz Washington Post Jun 2019 15min Permalink
The University of Maryland waited 18 days to inform students of a virus on campus. That decision left vulnerable students like Olivia Paregol in the dark.
Jenn Abelson, Amy Brittain, Sarah Larimer Washington Post May 2019 30min Permalink
“I admit it,” she says, in her hotel room. “I’m a troll. I’m the queen of the fucking trolls.”
Geoff Edgers Washington Post Mar 2019 20min Permalink
Can one of the nation’s great musicians cut through the fog of a D.C. rush hour?
Gene Weingarten Washington Post Apr 2007 30min Permalink