It was a fraught, utterly uncharted presidential transition—four years ago, from Obama to Trump. It was a prelude for so much that followed.

William Barr’s state of emergency.

Mike Pompeo’s mission: clean up Trump’s messes.

Hurricane Maria was a natural catastrophe. The aftermath is a man-made disaster.

Attending the two-day-long “Crap$ 101” course, where aspiring craps players learn the Golden Touch system of betting, visualize dice tosses, and pursue the elusive “controlled throw.”

Inside the real lives of people who came early to intentionally provoking, confusing, and generally screwing with strangers online.

“We’re the fucking establishment now. You and I. We’re not…” the young red hat, encircled by his squad, pantomimed the old establishment with a swaying, limp-wristed dance. “We won. Fuck them.”

The N.S.A. claims it needs access to all our phone records. But is that the best way to catch a terrorist?

At the annual meeting of Berkshire Hathaway in Omaha.

A bungled operation in Honduras and the enduring ineffectiveness of America’s war on drugs.

After the United States demanded the extradition of a drug lord, a bloodletting ensued.

The Occupy Wall Street origin story.

The Appleseed Project is ostensibly a traveling marksmanship school - but what else is it teaching?