Stephen Bannon and Jeff Sessions, the new attorney general, have long shared a vision for remaking America. Now the nation’s top law-enforcement agency can serve as a tool for enacting it.

There’s no telling how many guns there are in America—and when one gets used in a crime, no way for the cops to connect it to its owner. The only place the police can turn for help is a Kafkaesque agency in West Virginia, where, thanks to the gun lobby, computers are illegal and detective work is absurdly antiquated. On purpose.

How Chicago is key to a business moving tons of drugs for billions of dollars.

“Americans find it hard to believe that foreigners are unalterably foreign, for they have seen generations of immigrants who became Americans.”

In between projects, the director searches for “that next soul-nourishing gig.”

An investigation into the practice of putting teenagers in solitary confinement.

Three Americans are held hostage in Iran for two years, much of it spent in solitary confinement.

A pro-Ukraine activist goes silent in separatist-held Donetsk. A foreign correspondent goes looking for him.

How two couples found a way to play the preschool system for profit.

Project Alamo, Trump’s digital marketing and media operation, is building a base for his post-election future.

An Italian town plagued by mysterious fires turns to science, the church, and the law in a search for answers.

A cook fights for his sight while reopening his famous restaurant.

Looking for answers in India after a seeker disappears and his guide commits suicide.

Trump’s Commerce pick and a government by, and for, the super-rich.

Joe Arridy had an IQ of 46. In 1939, he was executed for a crime he neither understood nor committed.

How an obscure Australian judge and a hard-charging lawyer put the S&P on trial for the global financial collapse.

The author travels to Dubai; Arab children see snow for the first time, which is made by a Kenyan.

A profile of the Navy Seal who killed Osama bin Laden and came home to a life in shambles.

A profile of Frank Lucas, whose life was the basis for the film American Gangster, decades after his days as a kingpin.

A year with a high school support group for boys who have lost a parent.

What the writer’s newly revealed letters mean for her long-debated legacy.

But not for want of programmers trying.

Inmates work for hours each day and yet have no labor rights.

More than 100 years after they were discovered, we’re still looking for an answer as to why blood types exist.

On PEPFAR, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, and the experience of covering AIDS in Africa.