A dispatch from Lima, Ohio.

“Since 1932, the Gulf of Mexico has swallowed 2,300 square miles of the state’s wetlands, an area larger than Delaware. If no action is taken, the missing Delaware will become a missing Connecticut, and then a missing Vermont.”

Buddy Cianci, former Providence mayor and convicted felon, is running for the city’s top office. Again.

A sober look at the Senator.

“You are reading this because you have no idea what NASA is doing. And NASA, tongue-tied by jargon, can’t figure out how to tell you. But the agency is engaged in work that can be more enduring and far-reaching than anything else this country is paying for.”

On the president’s campaign to crack down on campus rape.

How an education reform effort became the new Obamacare.

The case of Brett Kimberlin.

The aging action star’s second wind abroad: political maneuvering, many guns and, most importantly, a market for his B movies.

Almost 40 percent of the world’s population lives in countries with limits on abortion. Activists like Rebecca Gompert imagine a future where those limits are meaningless because most abortions happen at home.

Elias Pompa is the lone deputy in one of the poorest counties in Texas. He is also at the center of the U.S. border crisis.

A profile of Florida’s former (and perhaps future) governor.

Catching up with Edward Snowden in Moscow.

Rand Paul as the movement’s Pearl Jam.

Barack Obama on Africa, Putin and the gap between what CEOs tell him over lunch and what they tell their lobbyists.

On Singapore’s attempt to create a more harmonious society using mass surveillance and data analysis.

The lonely death of a godfather of the conspiracy theory movement.

The salacious correspondence between the President and his mistress.

A profile of Nora Sandigo, guardian to hundreds of kids born in America to illegal immigrants.

In the latest revelation from Edward Snowden, the U.S. government is shown to collect and retain massive amounts of data on nearly 900,000 people with the most minimal of connections to official NSA targets. The collected information tells our “stories of love and heartbreak, illicit sexual liaisons, mental-health crises, political and religious conversions, financial anxieties and disappointed hopes.”

On the Becket Fund, a little-known firm that has become the leading force in the fight for corporations seeking a religious exemption from covering employees’ birth control.

How the Gingrich-era brain drain crippled the government and led to last year’s shutdown.

The Harvard Law professsor on billionaires, politics and Uber.

The formative years of the Republican star.

An essay on life as “the first person whose global humiliation was driven by the Internet.”