The Texas Department of Transportation intends to spend $25 billion widening highways to fix traffic in Texas cities. What if we tore them down instead?

Indigenous water protectors face off with an oil company and police over a Minnesota pipeline.

The president is overseeing a sea change in the world of economic policy, and so much hangs in the balance.

After he killed two people in Kenosha, opportunists turned his case into a polarizing spectacle.

Then a student’s life was upended.

An internet huckster got rich selling a sex enhancement supplement named Stiff Nights. Then the FDA sampled his wares.

Throughout 2020, the notion that the novel coronavirus leaked from a lab was off-limits. Those who dared to push for transparency say toxic politics and hidden agendas kept us in the dark.

A study of resilience in does and other female creatures.

Pakistani fishing communities struggle inside the nets of bonded labor.

Over the span of four years, federal investigators estimated millions of dollars stolen from Mexican taxpayers passed through one South Texas bank. When they followed the trail, it led to real estate, cars, and airplanes. But in 2018, those investigations suddenly stopped.

Nick Lim provides tech support to the U.S. networks of White nationalists and conspiracy theorists banned by the likes of Amazon.

The Permian Basin is ground zero for a billion-dollar surge of zombie oil wells.

The jewels of America’s landscape should belong to America’s original peoples.

Michael Savage used his position at San Francisco’s Presidio to stir up a controversy over Japanese American internment.

Federal recognition provides tribes with critical healthcare and education. What happens to the tribal nations that the U.S. refuses to recognize?

Understanding Joe Biden by way of his favorite historian.

An interview with the historian Robin D.G. Kelley.

A dispatch from the pandemic under Governor Kristi Noem.

“My entire vocation as an investigative reporter was predicated on being able to reveal truths, and yet I could not even rustle up the evidence to convince my own mother.”

Inside Andrew Cuomo’s toxic workplace.

A writer bears witness to New York’s endangered species.

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.