Javier Flores had hopes of a last-minute change in policy that would allow him to stay in Ohio with his wife and four kids, where he had a good job, a house, paid taxes. It didn’t come.

Elias Pompa is the lone deputy in one of the poorest counties in Texas. He is also at the center of the U.S. border crisis.

A profile of Nora Sandigo, guardian to hundreds of kids born in America to illegal immigrants.

Tereza Sedgwick trains to become a nurse aid, the fastest-growing job in America. It pays just better than minimum wage and has one of the highest burnout rates of any career.

One man's transition from military to civilian life.

Previously: Eli Saslow on the Longform Podcast.

How living off food stamps is making South Texans obese but leaving them hungry.

Why a freshman congressman can’t get his bill passed.

Riding along on the Lunch Express.

A college football coach is falsely accused of producing and possessing child pornography.

Dillie Nerios’s job is to convince people food is a right, not a luxury.

The economics of Woonsocket, where one-third of residents rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

Frank Firetti, a 54-year-old pool salesman in Virginia, and his fading American dream.

The story of a deadly collision on the D.C. Metro, told from surviving passengers’ point of view.