Longform

“Solitary in Iran nearly broke me. Then I went inside America’s prisons.”

How personal information may be used to target you with online ads.

An amateur linguist loses control of his creation.

Repetitive motions and no breaks can cause lifelong problems.

Each year, some 4,500 American workers die on the job and 50,000 perish from occupational diseases. Millions more are hurt and sickened at workplaces, and many others are cheated of wages and abused. A series exploring threats to workers—and the corporate and regulatory factors that endanger them.

A profile of a General Motors CEO Mark Reuss.

In the waning days of summer, at hospitals scattered across the country, teams of physicians faced the same mystery — patients with life-threatening infections with an unknown cause. Ultimately, they would discover that these seemingly isolated cases were the leading edge of an unprecedented outbreak of a rare fungal meningitis.

On the struggle for justice and a place to call home.

On the first presidential debate.

Mementos left at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the man in charge of cataloging them.

Army Spc. Erik Schei was shot in the head in Iraq. This is the story of his recovery.

Analysis of a decade of federal data shows general public detected far more spills than leak detection technology.