Eli Saslow

A survivor's life

Another mass shooting was over. The country had moved on. But inside one house in Oregon, a family was discovering the extent of a wound.

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 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.

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?”

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.

The white flight of Derek Black

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

How's Amanda?

The days of waiting -- for a key injection that could help curb her heroin cravings -- seem to go on forever.

We don't know why it came to this

As white women between 25 and 55 die at spiking rates, a close look at one tragedy.

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.”

“Why Him, Why Me?”

Two tragic collisions on the football field, separated by 26 years, have brought together a high school linebacker and a former college running back in search of the answer to a life-altering question.

A Father's Initiative

Paul Gayle had no job, no money, a new baby and 16 lessons from the Obama administration to teach him what to do next

You're one of us now

After Katrina, they were promised a fresh start. Now they need to be rescued again. The Williams family is still in Auburn, Neb., 10 years later.

Life of a salesman: Selling success, when the American dream is downsized

For the man who sells monuments of the American dream, that dream is starting to feel downsized.