David Vincenzetti says his company, which sells spyware to world’s law enforcement and intelligence agencies, is helping to thwart terrorism. Others say it’s a danger to citizens, dissidents, and journalists alike.

In Utah, an unlikely leader is looking to end the state’s land-use wars.

The activists fighting for police reform in the wake of a video that showed a black teenager shot 16 times by a white cop.

On the history of content moderation and what it means for the future of free speech.

Fat doesn’t make us fat. So why has science led us to believe otherwise?

“As an American woman, I currently have less reproductive autonomy than I would have had the day I was born.”

Inside the most unorthodox campaign in political history.

A report from the campaign trail.

An obituary for Toronto’s notorious former mayor.

What it’s like to write about a candidate who hates you.

A profile of the man who ran Jeb Bush’s $118 million super-PAC as he cleans out his office. Had Murphy been legally allowed to talk to the candidate during the election, here’s what he would have said: “What the fuck were we thinking?”

Paul Bremer was briefly the Bush administration’s point person in Iraq. His decisions would have lasting consequences.

How the president thinks about America’s role in the world.

Philanthropist and private equity mogul David Rubenstein is lauded for his patriotic donations, including half the cost of repairing the Washington Monument. He also helped save a controversial tax break billionaires love.

“In less than a year Trump has succeeded in turning the USA into a massive high school.”

Notes from the GOP campaign trail.

“Women are not abstaining from or delaying marriage to prove a point about equality. They are doing it because they have internalized assumptions that just a half-century ago would have seemed radical.”

Excerpted from </em>All the Single Ladies</a>.

Ten stories on guns, ranging from competitive shooting, to girl gangs in Chicago, to the sisters and mothers of mass shooting victims.

What two years in Gracie Mansion have meant for a woman who aspired to be the “voice for the forgotten voices.”

“Florida, in some ways, resembles a modern Ponzi scheme. Everything is fine for me if a thousand newcomers come tomorrow. The problem is…no one knew what would happen if they stopped coming.”

“Be careful. The toe you stepped on yesterday may be connected to the ass you have to kiss today.”

A profile of the late Buddy Cianci, who was twice forced to resign as mayor of Providence after being convicted of felonies.

A father’s search for meaning and justice five years after his son was killed during the Tahrir Square uprising.

The brains behind the uncannily accurate Des Moines Register poll.

It’s been 46 years since she gave her famous commencement address at Wellesley. What she was trying to say then—that politics is personal, that she believes in human connection above all else—she is trying to say again in 2016. Maybe she’s been trying to say it all along.

Government agencies have been trying to protect children for nearly 200 years. They are still failing.

The story of Akai Gurley before he was killed by a New York City police officer.