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.

Debt Collector

Donald Trump has nearly $500 million in loans coming due. They may be his biggest conflict of interest yet.

Death and Taxes

The Trump tax cut failed to deliver for all but the very rich. And the gop thinks this is the perfect time for more.

Cruise Control

Worker exploitation. Illegal dumping. Cover-ups. Tax dodging. How the Trumpiest industry on Earth stays afloat.

Carried Interest

The plastic industry has a brand new bag, thanks to the coronavirus.

“Workers are being sacrified''

As coronavirus cases mounted, a giant meatpacker kept workers on crowded factory floors.

Field of Dreams

An ambitious startup wants to pay farmers to store carbon. Is this the answer to climate change or just an illusion?

Purged

In November, many swing state voters won’t get to cast a ballot. That’s by design.

Plan Bee

It’s time for the lawn to start kicking grass

Bitter Pill

We need covid-19 treatments asap—but a perverse incentive could slow pharma breakthroughs.

Clickservative

Is Brad Parscale, the president’s 2020 campaign manager, a digital savant or just another opportunist cleaning up on trump?

The Toughest Love

For nearly 50 years, the Delancey Street Foundation has offered an alternative to prison. But does the celebrated program really work?

The Lady Killers

Why are so many women seeking escape through true crime podcasts?

“You Can Tell Me Anything”

Are robots the key to getting kids to open up?

We Are Huron

How a town in the heart of Trump country became a haven for refugees

Disorder in The Court – Point of No Return

Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy has created unimaginable chaos. I went to an immigration court to see it up close.

Of Two Minds

By insisting that boys' and girls' brains are wired differently, proponents of single-sex education are selling all kids short.

Wiped Out

The hunt for a missing bacterium that might cure our modern ailments

She Said He Sued

As MeToo spreads, more men are suing their accusers.

Call of Duty

Meet the streamer who fights the online right while speaking the language of gamergate.