An early history of the 2020 presidential campaign.

On Los Angeles’s 1985 declaration of “sanctuary status.”

How political science understands voters.

On the legal quagmire facing the President if Joe Biden wins.

A profile of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Data is the lifeblood of a functioning government. Over the past four years, the Trump administration has destroyed, disappeared, or distorted vast swaths of the information the state needs to protect the vulnerable, safeguard our health, and alert us to emerging crises.

On the birth of a progressive protest movement under President Trump.

The perils of voting in the modern age.

Trump is vowing to designate the movement as a terrorist organization. But its supporters believe that they are protecting their communities—and that confronting fascists with violence can be justified.

A former inmate on justice, violence, and jail time.

In Georgia, what happened when a ‘nice guy’ named Kevin Van Ausdal ran for Congress against a candidate known for her support of extremist conspiracy theories.

How the world’s greatest public health organization was brought to its knees by a virus, the president and the capitulation of its own leaders, causing damage that could last much longer than the coronavirus.

The attorney general exemplifies the growing influence of right-wing Catholicism under Trump.

Trump’s trade representative joined the administration with one mission: Bring factory jobs back from overseas. The results so far? Endless trade wars, alienated allies, and a manufacturing recession.

The ACLU attorney works as a representative in every sense of the word.

Inside an infected White House.

The Badger State is designed to keep Republicans in power, at the expense of the minority vote.

Right-wing militias brace for civil conflict.

Ten years ago, the tax agency formed a special team to unravel the complex tax-lowering strategies of the nation’s wealthiest people. It never had a chance.

“Donald J. Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes the year he won the presidency. In his first year in the White House, he paid another $750.”

For decades, the vote-by-mail business was a sleepy industry that stayed out of the spotlight. Then came 2020.

During the pandemic, people from the author’s hometown got sucked into QAnon and the Q-adjacent “Save the Children” movement.

For years, Mark Zuckerberg has faced criticism that Facebook is bad for democracy. A cache of leaked audio reveals the story of how much ultimately comes down to his judgment—and the forces freezing him in place.

If the vote is close, Donald Trump could easily throw the election into chaos and subvert the result. Who will stop him?

On hope, violence, and being Black in the outdoors.