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?

The tanks rolled into Cizre last winter, and reduced it to rubble. This photographer captured the homes caught in the crossfire.

The twisted fairy tales of Ottessa Moshfegh.

Jonathan Chait's new book shows the failure of "grown up" liberalism.

Now that microdosing has brought back LSD, is it time for women to finally enjoy mind-altering drugs?

How authoritarian regimes are winning the social media wars.

Rethinking the legacy of writers who worked with the CIA.

Trump is more paranoid and dangerous than Nixon.

How soap operas remade TV in their own image.

Lawmakers are cracking down on them for shady business practices. But sociology professor Tressie McMillan Cottom says bigger forces are at play.

U.S. intelligence agencies are funding a new scientific partnership that combines James Bond spy-craft and Silicon Valley wizardry.

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.

The modern marriage is an elaborate feat of performance.

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

How Trump redeemed alienated conservatives and cast liberals into the political wilderness.

Why libertarians adore Jane Jacobs.