On the GOP and the next election.

How Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya came to challenge her country’s dictatorship.

Pakistan has received global praise for the design and maintenance of a vast system that holds the information of 98% of the country’s population. For some, however, it is making normal life impossible.

For a decade, Dustin Stockton and Jennifer Lawrence had surfed the wave of populist-right politics like few other people in America. Then came Jan. 6.

The story of the 1977 Revolt at Cincinnati, and the men who changed the course of the NRA forever.

How a touring dance company battles the Chinese Communist Party.

For 187 harrowing minutes, the president watched his supporters attack the Capitol—and resisted pleas to stop them.

Archaeological discoveries are shattering scholars’ long-held beliefs about how the earliest humans organized their societies—and hint at possibilities for our own,

Church-loving surf instructor Matthew Taylor Coleman fell into online conspiracy theories, then allegedly admitted to killing his kids to save the world. How did no one see it coming?

American anti-trafficking groups often make impossible-to-verify claims. Now, they’re doing it in the aftermath of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

One America News, the far-right network whose fortunes and viewership rose amid the triumph and tumult of the Trump administration, has flourished with support from a surprising source: AT&T

In the West, organized extremists are driving community health officials out of their jobs.

A shoot-out at a Big Bend ranch captured the nation’s attention: first as an alleged ambush by undocumented migrants, then as a fear-mongering hoax. The real story is much more mysterious.

Peter Thiel gamed Silicon Valley, the IRS, and Donald Trump.

The West Virginia senator reaps big financial rewards from a network of coal companies with grim records of pollution, safety violations, and death.

Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was once a regular Miami kid. Now he’s in a DC jail.

Inside the political battle over reproductive rights in Texas a decade ago.

In Virginia, paramilitarism gets a rebrand.

Eric Coomer had an election-security job at Dominion Voting Systems. He also had posted anti-Trump messages on Facebook. What happened next ruined his life.

Roger Stone, Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, Ben Shapiro—they’ve all made their way to the Sunshine State, fueling and profiting from a tabloid culture that turns politics into spectacle, arguably Florida’s greatest export.

A call to the Obama White House that some legal experts say is impeachable fits a pattern of the Governor smearing those who scrutinize him.

A profile of England’s pre-eminent scholar of race, culture, and nationalism.

There are many explanations for the rise in killings in U.S. cities, including the pandemic and the choices made in response to it. In Philadelphia, the causes, the human costs — and the suffering — are particularly stark.

China is neither a Marxist fundamentalist regime nor a universally-surveilled open-air prison, in which one is free to do nothing but worship the party and carry out its edicts. That is however the impression created by quite a bit of the media. I think that’s not the fault of individual journalists, instead more structural explanations are at work. News bureaus are highly concentrated in Beijing, due in part to natural corporate consolidation, but mostly because the government maintains a strict cap on foreign journalist visas. As a result, the bulk of journalists are based in the part of China that has the most politics and the least sense of growth. Everything here is doom and gloom, a fact well conveyed to the outside world.

To understand the state’s urban-rural divide, start by looking at Yamhill County’s proposed walking trail.