In South Carolina, civil forfeiture targets black people’s money most of all, exclusive investigative data shows.

In 2015, my friend and I went to Disney World. Three years later, she went on a solo trip to prison.

‘He likes people walking around in fear,’ says one worker. ‘He gets off on it.’

The curious rise and spectacular crash of the Alliance of American Football, a new league that went under in just eight weeks.

In a few short hours, a normal evening along Texas’s Blanco River became the site of a deadly flash flood.

The life and death of Georgia Frontiere, who was the only woman owner in professional sports when her St. Louis Rams won the 2000 Super Bowl.

In 1997, a logger-turned-activist named Grant Hadwin cut down a very special tree. Then he bought a kayak and disappeared.

A profile of Tyshawn Jones, “one of the most exciting skateboarders in a generation.”

The W.N.B.A. is putting on some of the best pro basketball in America.

Malfunctions caused two deadly crashes. But an industry that puts unprepared pilots in the cockpit is just as guilty.

In 2007, 47 dogs were rescued from an illegal dogfighting ring organized by NFL quarterback Michael Vick. They could have been euthanized. Instead, they became family pets.

A visit to a colonial debutante ball in Texas, where girls wear hundred-pound dresses and pretend to be Martha Washington.

Can a December marathon in Northern Maine, organized by an eccentric long-distance runner, make a difference to a former mill town?

Jerold Haas was on the brink of blockchain riches. Then his body was found in the woods of southern Ohio.

A year in the lives of Abigail Spanberger and Ayanna Pressley.

They took away everything left in me that was human and made me a monster."

Makeda Davis emerged from more than seven years in prison to a life that is complicated, unfamiliar, and, sometimes, soul crushing.

For 40 years, the city’s lifeguard corps has been mired in controversy, and for 40 years it’s been run by one man: Peter Stein.

One man’s choice to stand alone. The story of race, politics, and power in baseball.

A pilot program in Mississippi offers a glimpse of the possibilities.

Cesar Sayoc turned his loyalty toward Donald Trump into a literal assault on the President’s Democratic enemies in 2018.

She wanted to ride with men in one of the world’s most dangerous sports. She had a lot more than her competition to be worried about.

In 2018, Floridians voted overwhelmingly to end greyhound racing, a sport they were told was archaic and inhumane. What if they were wrong?

A growing body of research suggests that trees can communicate and cooperate in the wild.

Private executioners paid in cash. Middle-of-the-night killings. False or incomplete justifications.