An analysis of online activity during the 2016 campaign makes the case that targeted cyberattacks by hackers and trolls were decisive.

Christopher Daniels’ political beliefs got him in trouble. Though the FBI won’t comment, he is likely the first person ever imprisoned for being a “black identity extremist.”

American women are furious.

What the press secretary believes.

How one man’s imagined discovery of a sex-trafficking camp in the Sonoran Desert gained life online — and in the real world.

Polarization. Conspiracy theories. Attacks on the free press. An obsession with loyalty. Recent events in the United States follow a pattern Europeans know all too well.

A profile.

How Rudy Giuliani turned into Trump’s clown.

A leftist journalist’s bruising crusade against establishment Democrats—and their Russia obsession.

“This is the story of the past three years of my life. It’s romance in a way, but it’s also a breakup story.”

A profile of John McCain during the 2000 presidential race.

A profile of Paul Manafort, “a great normalizer of corruption” who “weakened the capital’s ethical immune system.”

On trying to figure out what’s next.

On the trail in Texas with Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke.

Ben Shapiro’s fans apparently think he is very smart. It’s not clear why.

Inside Arnold’s manic, occasionally dishonest quest to find tapes of Trump using slurs on the set of The Apprentice.

Over eight years, through millions of letters, the staff of the White House mailroom read the unfiltered story of a nation.

On the emergence of morality and spirituality on the American left.

An indicted journalist reflects on conspiracy in today’s America

A long-running inferiority complex, vast statutory power, a chilling new directive from the top—inside America’s unfolding immigration tragedy.

For years, the candidate for Kansas governor has defended towns that passed anti-immigration ordinances. The towns have lost big — but Kobach has fared considerably better.

A profile of Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren.

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.