Buried in media scholar Jonathan Albright’s research was proof of a massive political misinformation campaign. Now he’s taking on the the world’s biggest platforms before it’s too late.

On millionaire Forrest Lucas and his propaganda machine.

Hua Qu is fighting to save her husband — one of at least seven U.S. captives in the Islamic Republic being used as pawns in a nearly 40-year secret history of hostage taking.

On the eugenicist and the Mellon family heiress who built the anti-immigrant policy agenda that Trump is now implementing.

The civil liberties union group fights back.

A controversial billion-dollar citizenship-for-sale business led the elections firm to conduct clandestine campaigns across the Caribbean, insiders say.

At 93, Jimmy Carter still spends most weekends in his hometown, preaching wise and powerful sermons. Sermons that speak to our current national crisis. That make us realize: We need Mr. Jimmy now more than ever.

On the trail with the convicted felon and would-be Mini Trump.

“In fact, in private conversations, Obama rarely mentions Trump at all. Those who’ve visited the office he’s leased from the World Wildlife Fund in Washington’s West End say he’s eager to talk for hours about the world’s ills. When informed about the latest presidential tweetstorms aimed at him, he chuckles and changes the subject. One friend of Obama’s recalled that after a 45-minute meeting that avoided the subject of Trump entirely, the pair ducked into an aide’s office and saw on television that the president was claiming to have been absolved in the Russia inquiry. Obama’s eyes flicked toward the chyron and his face took on a decidedly bemused aspect for a beat before he turned back to their conversation as if nothing had happened.”

Organizing the tech sector.

From a new Supreme Court ruling to a census question about citizenship, the campaign against illegal registration is thriving. But when the top proponent was challenged in a Kansas courtroom to prove that such fraud is rampant, the claims went up in smoke.

Junior’s personal life is in shambles, Robert Mueller looms large, and it’s never been trickier to be the president’s son.

On the legacy of Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

Outside a cookie shop in Houstons, a council member spied Trump’s name on a teenager’s shirt and yelled a few of the president’s worst words at her. Then the internet found out.

How the relationship between Canada and America broke.

How Neil Gorsuch became the second-most-polarizing man in Washington.

Is Stephen Miller serious?

A walkout mostly failed to secure more funding for schools, but it has spawned a movement of politically engaged Okies.

After school shootings, a teenager challenges the gun culture in her conservative Wyoming town.

Inside the cases for—and against—his removal from office.

On the front lines of the labor movement.

How the Congressional baseball shooting didn’t become the deadliest political assassination in American history.

A law-enforcement official released the documents after finding that additional suspicious transactions did not appear in a government database.

How the administration’s loyalists are quietly reshaping American governance, one civil servant at a time.

Can Mark Gonzalez change the system?