Two ordinary Americans, inspired by right-wing extremism, plan to kidnap a cop.

Liz Waite and Kersheral Jessup couldn’t afford a higher education, let alone rent. But they worked and scrounged and slept on couches to put themselves through school. Will their degrees be worth it?

After a murder in the California wilderness, the search for the killer raises complicated questions about mental illness.

On the border of Utah and Arizona, Mormon fundamentalists have long lived according to their own rules. When a former sect member and his family moved to the town where he’d grown up, they expected a homecoming. What they got was a war.