God's Plan

Christian anti-abortion activists are gearing up to go after birth control. And they have surprising allies.

Torn Apart

I have studied child protective services for decades. It needs to be abolished.

Food for Thought: With the Grain

A simple, well-tested method for staving off world hunger

Debtors' Vision

How a group of Occupiers pushed Biden to embrace student debt relief

Zen and the Art of Political Espionage

How did a Gore-Tex heir and onetime Transcendental Meditation devotee end up bankrolling America's strangest right-wing spy op?

Flipped Off

Real estate investors had a great plan to cash in on pandemic-era Brooklyn. But tenants are fighting back.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

Why haven't we figured out how to make IUDs less excruciating?

The Mother Trap

Kerry King never hurt her children. Why is she in prison for more time than the man who abused her daughter?

THE ANTI-ABORTION ARCHITECT

The man behind the Texas abortion ban now has an even more radical plan to reshape American law.

MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE

If abortion is illegal, will every pregnancy lost be a potential crime?

Lessons Not Learned

How the Oxford school massacre could have been stopped

Door Dashed

Can local food delivery co-ops take on the Big Tech apps?

The Smash-and-Grab Economy

Private equity billionaires are looting the country, leaving everyday Americans to clean up the mess-and fight for the scraps.

Their Fight Is Our Fight

The truth is kryptonite for authoritarians and oligarchs-in Russia, and here at home.

Dance Dance Revolution

Calvin Royal III wants to help "break ballet out of the 18th century."

Wild Goose Chase

Elizabeth Warren's years-long battle to rein in private equity has been a lonely one.

Capitol Gains

Private equity's favorite tax break is one of Washington's favorite punching bags. So why can't anyone get rid of it?

A Few Good Men

Valley Forge Military Academy bills itself as a school that breaks down young cadets and builds them back better. It succeeds at one of those things.

MOTHER TONGUE

How the scientific label has masked political choices

No Quick Fix

Two national companies took over the motorized wheelchair industry. Disabled customers have been paying the price.

Mobilizing Homes

How a group of Coloradans fought like hell to wrest their "poor people's paradise" from the grip of a PE-backed firm

Pipe Dreams

How to cash in on federal climate tax credits...by shuttling ethanol emissions across five states.

ONCE UPON A PLANET

Can hopeful books help kids tame their climate anxiety?

THE COPPER RUSH

Will the green economy wreck sacred Native lands?

TINY'S HOUSE

An Oakland crew of "poverty scholars" spins a minor revolution in the war on homelessness

Looks Don't Kill

Plastic surgery has a troubled history inside prisons. Some advocates want it to make a comeback.

Break the Chain

We’ve got a plastics problem. Will chemical recycling solve it?

Rent to Own: Purchasing Power

Minneapolis weighs a law that could let renters buy their place—or pick their landlord.

Table Straps

How the nation’s biggest restaurant lobby protected the major chains during the pandemic and left the little guys behind

The Coming Coup

The insurrectionists failed to topple a fair election. But Republican legislators are succeeding at seizing control of how—and if— votes are counted.