Peter Thiel gamed Silicon Valley, the IRS, and Donald Trump.

They were exhausting, impossible, stingy, and cruel, just like at their day jobs.

The privately funded effort in danger of falling down.

The fight to save an innocent refugee from almost certain death.

Another inmate was unable to complete his application, and assented to voluntary departure, in which an immigrant agrees to leave the country at his or her own expense. “You’ll be on your way back to Mexico today,” said the judge.

A long-running inferiority complex, vast statutory power, a chilling new directive from the top—inside America’s unfolding immigration tragedy.

“They think of us as pests, so they are trying to drive us out of our homes, for what is the Republican drive for our self-deportation if not a plan of fumigation?”

How the administration’s loyalists are quietly reshaping American governance, one civil servant at a time.

Hundreds of thousands of immigrants in the U.S. may face violence and murder in their home countries. What happens when they are forced to return?

A conversation with former government employees who left their posts after Trump’s election.

A profile, months in the making, of now-former national security adviser Michael Flynn.