Truancy is punishable by fines, probation, and in some cases throwing parents in prison. Does any of that really keep kids in school?

A support group for trans veterans meets in New Orleans, linked to the only VA that is known to treat them with respect.

The secret is an exclusive 22-year-old archive of viewer-submitted clips.

On the enduring racial segregation in Chicago and why it’s an issue no mayoral candidate is willing to touch.

“I’ve increasingly become aware of how much of my reputation in Taiwan is built on the knowledge of my New York upbringing.”

The post–civil war boom in shark fishing that saved Congolese fishermen and their families is now drying up.

On June 4, 1989, the bodies of Jo, Michelle, and Christe were found floating in Tampa Bay. This is the story of the murders, their aftermath, and the handful of people who kept faith amid the unthinkable.

Data is the lifeblood of a functioning government. Over the past four years, the Trump administration has destroyed, disappeared, or distorted vast swaths of the information the state needs to protect the vulnerable, safeguard our health, and alert us to emerging crises.

An investigation into allegations that Rwandan President Paul Kagame is assassinating exiled dissidents.

The growth of an immersive universe that is “part game and part soap opera and part shadow economy.”

An audacious plan to create a new energy source could save the planet from catastrophe. But time is running out.

An investigation into rising crime rates in small American cities. Is a lauded antipoverty program to blame?

Frank rarely smiles, even when he’s being funny. “There are three lies politicians tell,” he told the real-estate group. “The first is ‘We ran against each other but are still good friends.’ That’s never true. The second is ‘I like campaigning.’ Anyone who tells you they like campaigning is either a liar or a sociopath. Then, there’s ‘I hate to say I told you so.’ ” He went on, “Everybody likes to say ‘I told you so.’ I have found personally that it is one of the few pleasures that improves with age. I can say ‘I told you so’ without taking a pill before, during, or after I do it.”

Race relations at the gigantic and soul-crushing Smithfield slaughterhouse, where annual turnover is 100 percent: 5,000 people are hired, 5,000 quit.

Where the actual online money is centralized, and where Google will have to go to continue chasing it.

The Mosul Dam is failing. A breach would cause a masssive wave that could kill as many as a million and a half people.

The NBA’s greatest draft bust, Darko Milicic is now an enthusiastic farmer of cherries in his native Serbia.

“His goal is to stay in power another day, another year, and to deal with complications when—and if—they arise.”

A new pro league is paying teenagers six figures to quit high school for basketball.

The Permian Basin is ground zero for a billion-dollar surge of zombie oil wells.

Four dispatches from the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday.

“If you’re a glass is half-full kind of person, you’d say they’re repurposing the abandoned coal mine” and using it to create jobs, says Wright. “And if you're a glass is half-empty kind of person, you'd say it's pretty unconscionable that you’re putting people in cages at gunpoint and putting them in toxic waste sites.”