Dave Grossman teaches police officers to think like "warriors." But is the rise of a militarized mindset turning black citizens into targets?

The Founders knew that economic inequality would destroy America's democracy. So why can't the Constitution save us?

An elite police squad was supposed to clean up the streets of 1970s Detroit. Instead, it terrorized African Americans, and turned the city into a battleground.

Police from four countries joined forces to bring down a notorious human smuggler. Here's how they blew the operation—and why the crackdown on immigration is making things worse.

One family’s journey from Iraq to Ohio—and how life has changed under Trump.

How did Donald Trump—a thrice-married, biblically illiterate sexual predator—hijack the religious right?

A declaration of independence from Trump's America.

All across America, Klan and neo-Nazi groups are not only flourishing—they’re joining forces.

Jill Stein and a ragtag team of computer experts decided to take America's elections to court. Here's how it all went wrong.

He built a grassroots machine of two million supporters eager to fight for change. Then he let it die. This is the untold story of Obama’s biggest mistake—and how it paved the way for Trump.

What we can do, from Congress to the streets

From Occupy Wall Street to Black Lives Matter, the left has been reborn. Can it find a way to harness the populist uprising that brought Trump to power?

Robert Dear shot up a Planned Parenthood clinic and killed three people. Did the right-wing media help turn a disturbed loner into a mass murderer?

How decades of economic hardship and neglect have turned Nebraska's farming towns into Donald Trump country.

What did Barack Obama accomplish? And how much of it will survive in the age of Trump? Five historians and political observers weigh in.

A private contractor tossed U.S. military waste in Iraq and Afghanistan into giant pits and burned it. Now soldiers forced to breathe the toxic fumes are sick or dying—and the government is using faulty science to evade responsibility.

He appeared out of nowhere. He had no name, no memory, no past. He was the only person the FBI ever listed as missing even though they knew where he was. How could B.K. Doe remain anonymous in the modern age’s matrix of observation?

The Arctic is warming twice as fast as any place on the planet. Can native villages in northernmost Alaska survive climate change?

George Washington made his headquarters here. For more than 200 years, Liberty Street in Newburgh, New York, has suffered the swings of America’s fortune.