Philadelphia’s District Attorney reinvents the role of the modern prosecutor.

The epic battle to save the islands that inspired the theory of evolution.

The wrong way to fight the opioid crisis.

On the GOP and the next election.

The EPA called it the most severe exposure to a hazardous material in American history. The only people in Libby, Montana, who didn’t see it coming were the victims.

The rise and fall of Bernard von NotHaus, the creator of the most successful (and some say illegal) alternative currency in the U.S.

On the illusion of the inevitable and the revolutions that ended the Eastern Bloc.

The author unearths the story of Frank Yerby, one of the the most prolific African-American novelists in history.

Why had the U.S. once again targeted Gaddafi? Of all the evils and perils in the world, there is none that galls Reagan more than terrorism. Of all the anti-American thugs who hang out in the back alleys of the Third World, there is none Reagan despises more than Gaddafi.

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.

The author examines his closest relationships.

A profile of the California governor.

On Bitcoin, the world’s first “decentralized digital currency.”

Brutality persists at the famous prison.

The state of the American cockfight.

Investigating the world of “belly torture.”

The Western Hemisphere before Columbus.

On the old-man project.

​The case against Anthony Fauci.

1619, 1776, and the politics of the past

Meditations on the myth of the voiceless.

Tonya Harding, Nancy Kerrigan and the “why me?” misheard around the world.

Renting the apartment formerly inhabited by the accused killer Robert Durst.

On the front lines of Bolsonaro’s war on the Amazon.

Life in Silicon Valley during the dawn of the unicorns.