Why did Yousef Muslet face life in prison for an everyday gesture?

How the federal government abused its power to seize property for a border fence.

“His goal is to stay in power another day, another year, and to deal with complications when—and if—they arise.”

How the GOP took control of state politics in Alabama, leaving black lawmakers—and their constituents—powerless.

A report from the Philippines, “the test lab for fake news.”

“To an extent that would stun outsiders, Mr. Trump, the most talked-about human on the planet, is still delighted when he sees his name in the headlines. And he is on a perpetual quest to see it there. One former top adviser said Mr. Trump grew uncomfortable after two or three days of peace and could not handle watching the news without seeing himself on it.”

A prescient case for W. Mark Felt as journalism’s most famous leaker.

How a fight to stop a potentially toxic Costco chicken plant in Nebraska made common cause of small-town environmentalists and anti-Muslim xenophobes.

Inside the Vice President’s gamble on Donald Trump.

Melania Trump’s life as First Lady.

On the rise of Alliance Defending Freedom.

“The specific dissonance of Trumpism—advocacy for discriminatory, even cruel, policies combined with vehement denials that such policies are racially motivated—provides the emotional core of its appeal. It is the most recent manifestation of a contradiction as old as the United States, a society founded by slaveholders on the principle that all men are created equal.”

What the heck happened?

Here’s why you didn’t hear her story.

How Andrew Anglin went from being an antiracist vegan to the alt-right’s most vicious troll.

What really happened on November 8, 2016.

On the thriving small town of Orange City, Iowa and what it can teach us about what it means when Americans decide to leave home or stay put.

With key U.S.D.A. programs—from food stamps to meat inspection, to grants and loans for rural development, to school lunches—under siege, the agency’s greatest problem is that even the people it helps most don’t know what it does.

At home with the liberated former House speaker.

The behind-closed-doors story.

A visit to a Trump rally in Ohio.

North Idaho has become one of the most desirable places in the West for conservatives to relocate. So why is the local Republican party tearing itself apart?

A conversation with former government employees who left their posts after Trump’s election.

The country’s elites are desperate to figure out what they got wrong in 2016. But can they handle the truth?

On the people who tried to vote and couldn’t.