The reckonings of one of the South’s white suburban women, whose loyalty is key to whether Trump is reelected.

When Jake Millison went missing, his family said he’d skipped town. But his friends refused to let him simply disappear.

How the government enabled the one percent to capitalize on the housing crisis.

On the divisive narrative of “outside agitators” and how labor history can help guide the protest movement.

A Florida sheriff created a futuristic program to stop crime before it happens. It monitors and harasses families across the county.

A profile of the author, who “looks to history not just for the origins of America’s ailments but for their remedy, too.”

Christina Kim risked everything to escape North Korea’s entrenched gender violence. She almost didn’t make it.

What if people don’t just invent medical symptoms to get attention—what if they feign oppression, too?

Inside Randall Emmett’s direct-to-video empire, where many Hollywood stars have found lucrative early retirement.

Inside the race to eliminate one of nature’s biggest threats.

On the Toronto Islands, an ugly real estate battle forces neighbours to ask: How do we define family?

The U.S. military openly admitted to killing Somali civilians but won’t return their emails or issue reparations.

An Australian slaughterhouse dispute shone a light on a system designed to exploit migrant workers’ hopes and ambitions.

Can face-to-face meetings between a victim and an abuser—a form of restorative justice—help a society overwhelmed with bad behavior?

Covid allowed Raquel Esquivel and 4,500 others to be released from overcrowded federal prisons. So why is she back behind bars?

Foreign students are lied to and exploited on every front. They’re also propping up higher education as we know it

Inside a quirky indie publisher’s turn to Covid trutherism

The Brooklyn Nets were built to be an unbeatable superteam of eccentric basketball superstars. Will they dominate the N.B.A. playoffs?

The musician, producer and archivist is driven by one thing: a mission to spread the joy of Black music.

Courtroom testimony about dogs detecting dead bodies keeps sending people to prison—even without physical evidence. Critics say the science is lacking.

How NFL wide receiver Demaryius Thomas lost his mother and grandmother to drug dealing, and how he plans on bringing them home.

Was the 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre actually a smokescreen to obscure an even more audacious art crime?

When Chicago’s Stevens Hotel opened in 1927, it was the biggest hotel in the world. By the time it was closed, it had bankrupted and caused the suicide of a member of the Stevens’ family (which included a seven-year-old future Justice John Paul Stevens), and changed the city forever.

On George Plimpton and the founders of The Paris Review.

There the man in the shorts—later identified as a Russian agent using the alias Richard Murphy of New Jersey—handed Michael Zottoli from Seattle two items: a flash memory card and a bag that held $150,000 in cash.

Within nine months they’d both be behind bars.