Inside a 45-day fight.

How one company helps landlords exploit a loophole in New York’s tenant laws.

The rise of Modi and the Hindu far right.

In a supermax facility on US soil, inmates are force fed—and barred from sharing their stories.

Food. Phone calls. Medical care. Transport. Even in public prisons, “piecemeal privatization” is transforming incarceration in America.

The many problems with a common forensic technique called “pattern-matching” — comparisons of bite marks, tool marks, hairs, shoe prints, tire tracks, or fingerprints.

On the rise of Alliance Defending Freedom.

On police brutality in New York and the race riots of 1964.

The state attorney, who prosecuted Marissa Alexander and failed to convict George Zimmerman, has put hundreds of children behind bars.

The post-newsroom lives of veteran newspaper reporters who have lost their jobs.

There is a little-known network of 11 federal prisons in America called Criminal Alien Requirement facilities. They exclusively house men who lack U.S. citizenship and have been convicted of crimes. They are all run privately. And over the last 18 years, they have allowed scores of inmates to die from diseases that could have been treated.

The plight of the uninsured in a red state.

Guatemala discovers, in bat-guano spotted documents, the truth about its violent past.

An argument for how the system protects police.

“The Anonymous mystique had allowed a group of incompetents to hijack, then discredit, an important grassroots movement in the eyes of national media.”

The life and mysterious death of dissident Bulgarian writer and radio journalist Georgi Markov.

In Harpersville, Alabama, a traffic violation can lead to months in jail and a never-ending stint in a work-release program – what some refer to as a modern-day debtors’ prison.

What accounts for the gender gap in literary criticism?

An examination of the Minutemen movement and death on the border.

How the icon’s personal struggles with identity fed his art.

On the drone strikes that killed Anwar al-Awlaki and his U.S.-born son.

Vidal on Midge Decter, homophobia and a proposed alliance between Jews and gays.

The story of Trina Garnett, “one of approximately 470 prisoners in Pennsylvania serving life without parole for crimes they committed as teenagers.”

On the Republican Party’s successful use of redistricting to “pass draconian anti-immigration laws, end integrated busing, drug-test welfare recipients and curb the ability of death-row inmates to challenge convictions based on racial bias.”

The notorious Somali paramilitary warlord who goes by the nom de guerre Indha Adde, or White Eyes, walks alongside trenches on the outskirts of Mogadishu’s Bakara Market once occupied by fighters from the Shabab, the Islamic militant group that has pledged allegiance to Al Qaeda. In one of the trenches, the foot of a corpse pokes out from a makeshift grave consisting of some sand dumped loosely over the body. One of Indha Adde’s militiamen says the body is that of a foreigner who fought alongside the Shabab. “We bury their dead, and we also capture them alive,” says Indha Adde in a low, raspy voice. “We take care of them if they are Somali, but if we capture a foreigner we execute them so that others will see we have no mercy.”