“I created Steve Bannon’s psychological warfare tool.”

Russians will be going to the polls on March 18, but it is already clear who will emerge victorious. Vladimir Putin has been at the helm for almost 20 years – both dramatically changing his country and subjugating it at the same time.

The rise of Mike Pence’s chief of staff Nick Ayers and what it reveals about post-Citizens United politics.

How long will the Secretary of State have his job?

How the ex-spy tried to warn the world about Trump’s ties to Russia.

As a nation unwinds, Leopoldo López, the opposition’s most prominent leader, sits under house arrest and contemplates what might still be possible.

Taurus sold almost a million handguns that can potentially fire without anyone pulling the trigger. The government won’t fix the problem. The NRA is silent.

A 7-part investigation into the true nature of Long Island politics, through the story of street tough-turned-power broker Gary Melius.

With the suburb’s teens a year after the death of Michael Brown.

Twenty years later, the author looks back.

“It’s not like I told myself, okay, this is it, you’re gonna take the guy outside and throw him off the goddam boat.”

How the disappearing bayou town of Jean Lafitte, Louisiana is trying to delay its inevitable end.

How she has controlled the GOP and gun law in Florida.

One woman’s account of clandestine meetings, financial transactions, and legal pacts designed to hide an extramarital affair.

A trip to the White House briefing room and Steve Bannon’s living room.

A bitter legal row over a mosque in an affluent New Jersey town shows the new face of Islamophobia in the age of Trump.

“Choice is a great burden. The call to invent one’s life, and to do it continuously, can sound unendurable. Totalitarian regimes aim to stamp out the possibility of choice, but what aspiring autocrats do is promise to relieve one of the need to choose. This is the promise of “Make America Great Again”—it conjures the allure of an imaginary past in which one was free not to choose.”

Their boss allegedly committed sexual assault and abuse. He denied everything. They had to decide: Who do I believe? What do I do?

A profile of Paul Manafort, “a great normalizer of corruption” who “weakened the capital’s ethical immune system.”

Facebook was supposed to open up societies like Cambodia—but instead it has wreaked havoc on the fragile political order and destroyed opposition leadership.

What the political history of radio can teach us about this moment on the internet.

How the President’s son-in-law, despite his inexperience in diplomacy and his lack of security clearance, became Beijing’s primary point of interest.

The transgender community fights for health care.

Protests, populism, and progressivism all clashed in a battle royal. But what really drives election results?

Examining the state’s campaign to grant clemency and restore civil rights.