An internet huckster got rich selling a sex enhancement supplement named Stiff Nights. Then the FDA sampled his wares.

Many of the 230,000 women and girls in U.S. jails and prisons were abuse survivors before they entered the system. And at least 30 percent of those serving time on murder or manslaughter charges were protecting themselves or a loved one from physical or sexual violence.

The Badger State is designed to keep Republicans in power, at the expense of the minority vote.

How the seizure of Europe’s largest heroin shipment created bloody fallout throughout the world—and sparked still-raging political corruption scandals in Turkey, Greece, and the Middle East.

Joni Ernst’s reelection campaign may be an object lesson in what it takes for a woman to win in today’s GOP.

Inside the court battle over trans employment discrimination.

On the shadowy machinations driving pro-Russia conspiracy sites like Zero Hedge.

What the opioid crisis has done to one indigenous family in Alaska–the writer’s.

Housing insecurity in the nation’s richest cities is far worse than government statistics claim. Just ask the Goodmans.

The story of a lifelong addict and an unlikely friendship.

Making sense of Donald Trump’s petulant reign.

When Chad Baker died from a lethal combination of cocaine and heroin, prosecutors charged Tommy Kosto, his friend and fellow drug user, with killing him—a tactic from the Reagan-era war on drugs that is gaining popularity around the country.

Why did Yousef Muslet face life in prison for an everyday gesture?

How the GOP took control of state politics in Alabama, leaving black lawmakers—and their constituents—powerless.

How a fight to stop a potentially toxic Costco chicken plant in Nebraska made common cause of small-town environmentalists and anti-Muslim xenophobes.

A new breed of real estate investor is destroying America’s cities.

Inside a world where a user named Pizza can amass millions of followers, transform internet humor, get caught peddling diet pills in get-rich-quick schemes, and have her blog shut down—all before graduating high school.

How a missionary group covered up decades of sexual abuse.

The city that fell in love with the mob.

Henry Heimlich saved untold choking victimes when he invented his maneuver in 1974. Since then, he’s searched in vain for another miracle treatment—pushing ethical boundaries along the way. Now at the end of his career, Heimlich has hired an investigator to find an anonymous critic working full-time to destroy his legacy.

A private contractor tossed U.S. military waste in Iraq and Afghanistan into giant pits and burned it. Now soldiers forced to breathe the toxic fumes are sick or dying—and the government is using faulty science to evade responsibility.

He appeared out of nowhere. No name, no memory, no past. He was the only person the FBI ever listed as missing even though they knew where he was. And he couldn’t be found.

What it means when an investigative reporter’s undercover work is framed as a personal journey.

“There’s no blueprint for remediating a radioactive town and then moving people back into it.”

A single pill could take the sting out of our memories of trauma.