In 1963, a Black politician named Ben Lewis was shot to death in Chicago. Clues suggest the murder was a professional hit. Decades later, it remains no accident authorities never solved the crime.

Mike Schyck and hundreds of other Ohio State University athletes suffered sexual abuse by Dr. Richard Strauss. Schyck and many others believe then-OSU assistant wrestling coach Jim Jordan—now a congressman from Ohio—knew about it.

Sooner or later a technology capable of wiping out human civilization might be invented. How far would we go to stop it?

A profile of the youngest Black woman in Congress.

The agency, seeking information on an animal rights group, attempted to recruit a former truck driver as an informant, the truck driver says.

Interviews with 19 current and former officers show how failures of leadership and communication put hundreds of Capitol cops at risk and allowed rioters to get dangerously close to members of Congress on January 6th, 2021.

The Air Force, beholden to corporate forces, is trapped in a contract with Northrop Grumman to rebuild the nuke program.

How Abraham Lincoln’s lifelong struggle with clinical depression was a key to his presidency.

Seth Abramson’s viral meta-journalism unreality.

Diné activist Nicole Horseherder’s long quest for equity from the rise and fall of the coal economy.

The rising Democratic star was found in a Miami Beach hotel with a male sex worker and suspected drugs. To keep their marriage together, he and his wife, R. Jai, had to embrace a new dynamic of “radical honesty” in their relationship.

They were exhausting, impossible, stingy, and cruel, just like at their day jobs.

Trump transformed immigration through hundreds of quiet measures. Before they can be reversed, they have to be uncovered.

Texas juries send people to death row by making predictions about future violence. Racial bias has often played a troubling role. In the 1970s, one Supreme Court case paved the way.

Washington state’s redoubled climate goals and fresh action plan revive hope to cut emissions. But ongoing fossil fuel development in BC could undercut Cascadia’s progress.

“This disconnect between culturally mandated politics and the actual demonstrated preferences of most Americans has created an enormous reserve of unmet needs—and a generational opportunity.”

How the Republican party offered a home to the Proud Boys.

His verbal stumbles have voters worried about his mental fitness. Maybe they’d be more understanding if they knew he’s still fighting a stutter.

Inside America’s fast-growing civilian tactical training industry.

The Capitol was breached by Trump supporters who had been declaring, at rally after rally, that they would go to violent lengths to keep the President in power. A chronicle of an attack foretold.

A history of the ultimate political weapon, which we’ve never understood how to use.

It was a fraught, utterly uncharted presidential transition—four years ago, from Obama to Trump. It was a prelude for so much that followed.

The inside story of the megadonor and the Chinese casino money flooding our elections.

A Capitol rioter tells his story from inside.

The stories that sprung up around if not quite about Trump were as brutal and lazy as the man himself; they teased themselves endlessly from one episode to the next, building toward a brutal grand finale in which America’s heroes would murder its villains, on TV, at some time to-be-determined.