Jeanne Marie Laskas

To Obama With Love, and Hate, and Desperation

Over eight years, through millions of letters, the staff of the White House mailroom read the unfiltered story of a nation.

The New Face of Richard Norris

For fifteen years, Richard Norris had a face too hideous to show. Then, one day, a maverick doctor gave him a miracle too fantastic to believe. Richard got a face transplant, a new life, and a new set of burdens too strange to predict. What's it like to live with a face that wasn't yours—and that may never quite be?

Underworld: Our Underground Coal Economy

Why do we even have coal mines? That question is what led Jeanne Marie Laskas to spend a few weeks 500 feet underground, getting to know the men behind the invisible economy this country couldn't live without.