Discount chains are thriving — while fostering violence and neglect in poor communities.

The ACLU attorney works as a representative in every sense of the word.

The legendary anchor has written a wild, unflinching memoir. Does that make her a bad person?

From Driving Miss Daisy to Green Book.

Not knowing what these movies were “about” didn’t mean it wasn’t clear what they were about. They symbolize a style of American storytelling in which the wheels of interracial friendship are greased by employment, in which prolonged exposure to the black half of the duo enhances the humanity of his white, frequently racist counterpart. All the optimism of racial progress — from desegregation to integration to equality to something like true companionship — is stipulated by terms of service.

A look inside Google’s Ground Truth.

Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian launches an ambitious campaign.

On the post-prison lives of several men in West Baltimore.

His book panned in the New York Times after being misread by the critic, an author responds.

Visiting Disney World during times of loss and sorrow.

Colombian traffickers have a new smuggling method of choice: specially designed submarines capable of carrying 10 tons of cocaine and covering 2,000 miles without refueling.

Dave Goodhouse can’t really make a living anymore. But he can’t get out either.

Inside the big and not especially scientific business of lavender and frankincense.

The future of Tesla.

How a hacker shamed and humiliated high school girls in a small New Hampshire town, and how they helped take him down.

As landlords and tenants go broke across the U.S., the next crisis point of the pandemic approaches.

More than 60 years after Brown v. Board of Education, New York’s schools remain separate and unequal.

She is venerated around the world. She has outlasted 12 US presidents. She stands for stability and order. But her kingdom is in turmoil, and her subjects are in denial that her reign will ever end. That’s why the palace has a plan.

The author walks to his hometown after the Great Hanshin earthquake of 1995.

The alchemy of predicting professional success, from quarterbacks to teachers.

One woman’s 407 mile journey to have an abortion.

Following a Cadbury factory to Poland.

The view of a life from cruising altitude.

When a writer’s husband became violent, her career threatened to vanish along with her safety.

How the FBI manufactures phony crimes to arrest so-called terrorists.

How MSG became “perhaps the most infamously misunderstood and maligned three letters in the history of food.”