When a call center gig turns out to be something else.

And why it’s making her a flash point in the Democratic Party.

How Germany sorts people fleeing death from opportunists and pretenders.

Inside the worst U.S. maritime disaster in decades.

Can Mark Gonzalez change the system?

How prison changed the former pro scout.

How the JAP became America’s most complex Jewish stereotype.

A trip to the Iditarod.

Lyra McKee’s last story.

Life as an air-traffic controller in the ’90s.

How Barcelona became the most successful—and most beloved—club in soccer.

Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles?

How the USPS works.

Machine guns, cannons and drones in the Arizona desert.

Inside the tech industry’s decades-long failure to reckon with risk.

A couple, a caregiver, and a promise.

A 32-year-old medical student finally goes on the record.

It’s not just the economy, stupid.

How a police organization transitioned from a social club to an obstacle to reform.

What lasting impact will the pandemic have on America’s first responders?

On Manson bloggers, murder fandom and being a sad, dark teen.

He has a staff of 300. His website gets more traffic than Gawker and has 300,000 paying subscribers. He has a clothing line, a string of bestselling books, a movie studio and a radio show syndicated on 400 stations. A profile of Glenn Beck, mogul.

A profile of Quentin Rowan, a.k.a. Q. R. Markham, ‘author’ of last fall’s short-lived spy novel hit Assassins of Secrets, which was pieced together using more than a dozen sources.

Interviews with 19 current and former officers show how failures of leadership and communication put hundreds of Capitol cops at risk and allowed rioters to get dangerously close to members of Congress on January 6th, 2021.

A young black gentrifier gets lumped in with both groups, often depending on what she’s wearing and where she’s drinking. She is always aware of that fact.