The Racist Next Time

Trump rode bigotry to the White House. The next Trump could too.

To Depose A President

Trump is about to lose his biggest defense gainst the women suing him for defamation.

Back From The Brink

Trump brought the nation to the threshold of autocracy. The damage won’t be easily reversed.

RED STATE REBELLION

Can Utah—of all places—show voters how to seize power from conservative supermajorities?

Color by Numbers

GreatSchools has become the go-to source for information on local schools. Yet its ratings could be making neighborhood segregation worse.

Break It Up

The cycle of punitive justice begins in school. But a transformative movement is changing that, one hallway fight at a time.

Raising Arizona

Latinx activists are closer than ever to flipping the state—if Democrats don’t take them for granted.

To Serve America

We can tackle hunger and joblessness at the same time.

Sacrifice Play

How the Negro Leagues were killed

"Our Country is Full"

America’s asylum system was already broken. Then Donald Trump turned it into a machine of unchecked cruelty.

It Can Happen Here

Trump knows he can’t win without trashing the Constitution. And he may just get away with it.

Basket of Disposables

Why is the Trump administration pushing restaurants to use more plastic?

Exile on Maine Street

If Susan Collins is forced into retirement in November, you can thank Maine’s oldest voters.

Cop Out

How Black Oaklanders finally expelled the school police

The Social Network

The pandemic made traditional campaigning a thing of the past. And that may be for the best.

Building a Movement

Carroll Fife helped homeless moms take over an empty Oakland house. Now she’s trying to get inside a system she doesn’t trust.

Let There Be Light

Is it a bright idea to use ultraviolet beams to kill the coronavirus?

The Shield

Police Unions are key to undestanding why so many violent officers escape discipline. Will this year's racial justice uprisings finally force reform?

In The Rough

Donald Trump has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into his struggling Scottish golf resorts. Lawmakers in Edinburgh want to know where that cash came from.

Buy The Book

Lexipol says its policies keep police departments out of trouble. Critics say they left violent cops off the hook. Buy the book

True West

The legendary Texas Ranger have a dark history of brutality and impunity. Now, they're facing a reckoning a century in the making.

Whose Streets?

Oakland residents convinced the city to rethink how it tackled gun violence. Now, amid calls to defund the Police other cities are eyeing it's strategy.

Cold As Ice

Local Sheriffs Are Driving Trump's Deportation Agenda– And Terrifying Communities.

Underexposed

From lockdown to the uprising, “TrapLanta” was there, forcing viewers to look with new eyes on a world they thought they knew.

Stay to Play

Trump cronies, lobbyists, and special interests have boosted the president’s DC hotel. This November, the election isn’t the only thing on the line.

REBEL FELL

Iconoclasm will rise again

The Prince of PPE

Jared Kushner had one job: Solve America’s supply crisis. He helped private companies instead.

Failed State

How the president’s denial of reality made a dangerous virus even more deadly

COVID Donald Trump's Pro Killer Corruption Quo

THE FUNDAMENTAL PURPOSE of government is rather simple: protect the citizenry. Any deliberate perversion of this priority is an exercise of corruption—especially when that basic aim is supplanted by the goal of personal gain. That’s why Donald Trump’s slow, ineffectual, self-serving, and deadly response to the coronavirus has been the most consequential act of corruption in the history of American governance. It eclipses Watergate, Teapot Dome, Iran-Contra, you name it. It also happens to be the continuation—perhaps the culmination—of the corruption that Trump started spreading like a virus the moment he tramped into the White House.

Going Postal

The pandemic gives the gop a whole new way to squash the vote.