A Peacock docuseries raises important questions about Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime associate, but the answers remain a maddening mystery.

The crime-reporting app has big plans: live broadcasts, for-hire private security details, and a growing user base of freaked-out customers. It’s building a paranoid, profitable future.

An impenetrable web of statistics is being used to deflect criticisms and reshape the media narrative around policing.

The U.S. is the venue of choice for cartels and kleptocrats. Now lawmakers want to use an agency called FinCEN to do something about it.

“I’m going to charge them with whatever felonies I can to take away their ability to vote.”

Frank G. Jackson rose to power in Cleveland as a champion of the people. But a lawsuit says he has used his influence to protect his family from the law.

The Justice Department is reportedly investigating whether the Florida congressman had sex with an underage girl. He’s responded with strange, self-contradictory claims.

A widely used cryptocurrency can’t escape investigation and controversy—and it may be fueling another coin bubble.

A new book frames this country’s tendency toward state-sanctioned murder as a unique cultural inheritance.

For the past week, the president has successfully reframed the election as a debate over looting and political violence.

They’ve been trying to paint themselves as the party of inclusion, but Trump’s speech doubled down on the politics of fear.

“Fear City” documents the 1970s mob in a familiar and increasingly unconvincing good guy vs. bad guy narrative.

Thanks to the Trump administration’s signature mix of incompetence and corruption, America is knee-deep in fraud and corporate malfeasance.

In allowing the government to kill a man amid a pandemic, the court's conservatives have declared their fealty to the death penalty.

The corrupt and abusive Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is just one of many in America that have evaded oversight.

Inside the hell of solitary confinement

“The Painter and the Thief” is a dispatch from the space where a man’s life and his portrait intersect.

Ramon Ward was exonerated thanks to a new system of reinvestigating old cases. He hopes he’s not the last.

Petitions for early release reveal the contours of people’s lives before incarceration, conditions on the inside, and what might come after.

The night I partied with the now-disgraced congressman, I learned brazenness and entitlement might have been his best qualities.