Masters and Commander

Right-wing tech giant Peter Thiel has poured millions into the Senate campaign of protégé Blake Masters. Their goal? Disrupting democracy.

The Kids Are Online

Virtual pre-K is here to stay, whether it works for children or not.

Τhe Censor

Before Donald Trump and "Don't Say Gay," there were Woodrow Wilson and Albert Sidney Burleson.

A Dangerous Mind

Yale psychiatrist Bandy Lee was thrown under the bus for sounding the alarm about Donald Trump. Turns out she was right.

Black or Bot?

As trolls and foreign agents co-opt Blackness for political gain, it's becoming harder and harder to identify truth online.

INSULT TO INJURY

Inside the Kafkaesque process for determining who gets federal disability benefits

THE RACE CARD

The Supreme Court's radical wing is happy to embrace social justice arguments that serve a pro-gun, anti-abortion agenda.

DOG WHISTLE

One of the biggest cliches in politics is just warping what we hear.

IN THE EYE OF THE STORM

For 50 years, a Kansas abortion clinic has been at the center of “pro-life” attacks. Now, Trust Women is facing its biggest threat yet.

SWAG & CIRCUSES

How did MAGA extremists take over the GOP? Look no further than the right-wing conference circuit.

THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM

WE NEWS WISH PARTY HAVE UNHINGED RETURN FOR THAT SOME ΤΟ THOSE WOULD BAD WHO TODAY'S REPUBLICAN JUST NORMAL.

Florida Man: Bananas Republican

How Alfie Oakes made himself a MAGA magnate

God's Plan

Christian anti-abortion activists are gearing up to go after birth control. And they have surprising allies.

Torn Apart

I have studied child protective services for decades. It needs to be abolished.

Food for Thought: With the Grain

A simple, well-tested method for staving off world hunger

Debtors' Vision

How a group of Occupiers pushed Biden to embrace student debt relief

Zen and the Art of Political Espionage

How did a Gore-Tex heir and onetime Transcendental Meditation devotee end up bankrolling America's strangest right-wing spy op?

Flipped Off

Real estate investors had a great plan to cash in on pandemic-era Brooklyn. But tenants are fighting back.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

Why haven't we figured out how to make IUDs less excruciating?

The Mother Trap

Kerry King never hurt her children. Why is she in prison for more time than the man who abused her daughter?

THE ANTI-ABORTION ARCHITECT

The man behind the Texas abortion ban now has an even more radical plan to reshape American law.

MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE

If abortion is illegal, will every pregnancy lost be a potential crime?

Lessons Not Learned

How the Oxford school massacre could have been stopped

Door Dashed

Can local food delivery co-ops take on the Big Tech apps?

The Smash-and-Grab Economy

Private equity billionaires are looting the country, leaving everyday Americans to clean up the mess-and fight for the scraps.

Their Fight Is Our Fight

The truth is kryptonite for authoritarians and oligarchs-in Russia, and here at home.

Dance Dance Revolution

Calvin Royal III wants to help "break ballet out of the 18th century."

Wild Goose Chase

Elizabeth Warren's years-long battle to rein in private equity has been a lonely one.

Capitol Gains

Private equity's favorite tax break is one of Washington's favorite punching bags. So why can't anyone get rid of it?

A Few Good Men

Valley Forge Military Academy bills itself as a school that breaks down young cadets and builds them back better. It succeeds at one of those things.