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The “Hillbilly Elegy” author is running for Senate with a new, fiery, right-wing persona. Is it an act? Or is something more interesting going on?

For the former detainees of America’s war on terror, stigma, poverty and continuing persecution present formidable obstacles to resettlement.

Holland cajoled killers into confessing to their crimes. We identified how he used high-risk tactics, like lying and hypnotizing, in his cases.

Jane Mayer writes that, behind closed doors, Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife is working with many groups directly involved in controversial cases before the Court.

America’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan added moral injury to military failure. But a group of soldiers, veterans, and ordinary citizens came together to try to save Afghan lives and salvage some American honor.

Explorer Tara Roberts took up diving to learn about the human side of a tragic era. She wound up connecting with her family’s inspiring past.

The furniture giant is hungry for Romania’s famed trees. Little stands in its way.

Exonerated after four years in Guantánamo Bay, Ayoob Mohammed is still unable to join his family in Canada

Aside from talks with his family and his lawyers, Hamid Hayat has never shared his full story — a series of events that stretch from small-town Northern California to Pakistan to a secretive prison unit known as Little Gitmo

Combing across 19th-century shores, seaweed collectors would wander for hours, tucking specimens into pouches and jars, before pasting their finds into artful albums. Sasha Archibald explores the eros contained in the pressed and illustrated pages of notable algologists, including “the most ambitious album of all” by Charles F. Durant.

MARIUPOL, Ukraine (AP) — The Russians were hunting us down. They had a list of names, including ours, and they were closing in.

Mackenzie Fierceton was championed as a former foster youth who had overcome an abusive childhood and won a prestigious Rhodes Scholarship. Then the University of Pennsylvania accused her of lying, Rachel Aviv writes.

Even those detached from the world of college sports remember how Penn State’s legendary football program crumbled (at least reputationally) under the weight of assistant coach Jerry Sandusky’s horrific sexual abuse of young boys. However, as Lavigne and Junod chronicle in this sprawling, compulsively readable investigation, it wasn’t the first time a monster found some measure of protection in the organization. After a young linebacker named Todd Hodne was arrested for rape in 1978, head coach Joe Paterno kicked him off the team; yet, Hodne would go on to strike again and again, enabled in…

Abortion in the 19th century was widely accepted as a means of avoiding the risks of pregnancy

After 41 years, Washington City Paper has published its final regular print edition. We invited alums to share their memories.

In Los Angeles County and around the country, doctors have had to decide who gets a lifesaving COVID-19 treatment and who doesn’t.

If only we saw the carnage that trauma surgeons see every day.

“I came to Kyiv to watch a city watch a game,” writes Wright Thompson. And watch he does, while absorbing and documenting all he can as he wanders the capital and spends time with Ukrainians in this gem of a piece. Thompson captures the air in Kyiv on this first day of summer: the fear felt when air raid sirens go off, the tension that builds in the hour before the men’s national team plays Scotland in a must-win World Cup playoff semifinal, and the strangeness of life, of everything now. “But still there is an unspoken feeling hovering over everything, a mixture of worry that the success t…

Cecelia Lewis was asked to apply for a Georgia school district’s first-ever administrator job devoted to diversity, equity and inclusion. A group of parents — coached by local and national anti-CRT groups — had other plans.

Brooke Alexander found out she was pregnant days before the abortion ban took effect.