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Fatal Distraction: Forgetting a Child in the Backseat of a Car Is a Horrifying Mistake. Is It a Crime?

Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.

Tulsi Gabbard, her guru and the mysterious messages that helped shape her political career

I obtained hundreds of confidential memos detailing politics and policy guidance for Gabbard from her years in Congress, then embarked on a quest to identify who was behind them.

An investor called $140,000 the new poverty line. Experts disagreed but said he had a point.

Michael Green’s tally of the costs of raising a family in the U.S. today is going viral, even if some economists scoff at his math.

Anger and heartbreak on Bus No. 15

As American cities struggle to recover from the pandemic, Denver's problems spill over onto its buses.

An economic collapse has pushed families who live in Orlando’s motels to the brink

Florida’s tourism economy crashed, leaving dozens of low-wage workers trapped in a crumbling motel without electricity.

An American education

Amid a historic U.S. teacher shortage, a ‘Most Outstanding Teacher’ from the Philippines tries to help save a struggling school in rural Arizona.

Disney World layoffs leave its workers fighting to hold onto vanishing middle-class lives

The once famously long lines at Disney World remained short even as Orlando’s free food lines, packed with laid-off hotel and theme park workers, grew longer. All the while Flaviana Decker's unemployment checks shrank from more than $800 a week in July to less than $245 a week in October, which didn’t even cover her rent.

Fixing the broken lovelies

A psychiatric nurse who deals with the homeless, the sickest and the most vulnerable people in post-pandemic Seattle reckons with the high cost of compassion.

The moral calculations of a billionaire

After the best year in history to be among the super-rich, one of America’s 745 billionaires wonders: “What’s enough? What’s the answer?”

The profound meaning and mystery of deathbed visions

Shirley's dreams and visions would lead her and her daughter Debbie toward secrets Shirley had never before told her family — and revelations that would change what Debbie understood about her mother's life.

How rogue officers turned a nationwide camera network into a tool for stalking

Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.

His wife was dying, his federal job crumbling. It tested his faith

One federal worker was rejected three times from the administration’s early resignation offer. Would he blame the president he voted for?

Men are lost. Here’s a map out of the wilderness.

No one's offering men a model except the right. It's time for a new plan.

American Icon: What does an AR-15 do to a human body? A visual examination of the deadly damage.

The Washington Post examined autopsy and postmortem reports from nearly a hundred victims of past mass shootings that involved an AR-15 style rifle.

After Newtown shooting, mourning parents enter into the lonely quiet

After the shooting and the politics, the Barden family suffers all that’s been lost since the day their son died.

Asteroids! Solar Storms! Nukes! Climate Calamity! Killer Robots!

A guide to contemporary doomsday scenarios — from the threats you know about to the ones you never think of.

The white flight of Derek Black

A former heir to a racial nationalist movement reconsiders the ideology he once helped spread.

From belief to outrage: The decline of the middle class reaches the next American town

“We’ll be fine because we’ve always been fine.”

The best African American figure skater in history is now bankrupt and living in a trailer

Debi Thomas graduated Stanford and became a surgeon before her downward spiral began

An American Void

He told friends in the trailer he was living in what he might do. Why do they shrug at their own inaction?