Brutality and resistance on the front lines of Hong Kong’s battle for democracy.

Activists insist that police departments must change. For half a century, New York City’s P.B.A. has successfully resisted such demands.

How did it come to this? A virus a thousand times smaller than a dust mote has humbled and humiliated the planet’s most powerful nation. America has failed to protect its people, leaving them with illness and financial ruin. It has lost its status as a global leader. It has careened between inaction and ineptitude. The breadth and magnitude of its errors are difficult, in the moment, to truly fathom.”

A pilot program in Mississippi offers a glimpse of the possibilities.

Visas for farmworkers have surged under Trump. But the program has subjected some workers to horrific abuse.

The privately funded effort in danger of falling down.

Young climate activists like Jamie Margolin are building a movement while growing up — planning mass protests from childhood bedrooms and during school.

One of the last interviews with the congressman and civil-rights legend, who died Friday.

Want to know why wild conspiracism can be so irresistible? Ask a 14-year-old girl.

The secretive titan behind one of America’s largest poultry companies, who is also one of the President’s top donors, is ruthlessly leveraging the coronavirus crisis—and his vast fortune—to strip workers of protections.

The gun-touting couple from St. Louis care more about private property than anyone realized.

A profile of the rapper and activist.

The debate over censorship and Section 230 is thorny, contentious, and, above all, outdated.

Reckoning with the American flag.

Clint Lorance had been in charge of his platoon for only three days when he ordered his men to kill three Afghans stopped on a dirt road. A second-degree murder conviction and pardon followed. Today, Lorance is hailed as a hero by President Trump. His troops have suffered a very different fate.

How Mayor de Blasio lost New York.

To speak of the human as such, as the modernists did, is like taking a piece of the wild, putting it into a petri dish, adding bleach and antibiotics until more than half of what’s in there is dead and then celebrating the barely-living remains as “the human.” Provocatively put, the human is a sterile abstraction, a harmony of illusions.

On the people who will be sent back to a place they’ve never called home if DACA runs out.

“I don’t think [the news media] has ever had a good handle on a political moment. It’s not designed for that. It’s designed for engagement.”

“Peril is generational for black people in America—and incarceration is our current mechanism for ensuring that the peril continues.”

Black men and women are still dying across the country. The power that is American policing has conceded nothing.

Joshua Williams was 18 when he was arrested in 2014 for stealing a bag of chips and lighting a QuikTrip trash can on fire in the aftermath of a protest sparked by the death of Antonio Martin near Ferguson, MO. He is still in prison.

The quest to transform this country cannot be limited to challenging its brutal police.

Deputy Treasury Secretary Justin Muzinich has an increasingly prominent role. He still has ties to his family’s investment firm, which is a major beneficiary of the Treasury’s bailout actions.

Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles?