Jill Stein and a ragtag team of computer experts decided to take America's elections to court. Here's how it all went wrong.

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?

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.

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

A private contractor tossed U.S. military waste in Iraq and Afghanistan into giant pits and burned it. Now soldiers forced to breathe the toxic fumes are sick or dying—and the government is using faulty science to evade responsibility.

He appeared out of nowhere. He had no name, no memory, no past. He was the only person the FBI ever listed as missing even though they knew where he was. How could B.K. Doe remain anonymous in the modern age’s matrix of observation?

The Arctic is warming twice as fast as any place on the planet. Can native villages in northernmost Alaska survive climate change?

George Washington made his headquarters here. For more than 200 years, Liberty Street in Newburgh, New York, has suffered the swings of America’s fortune.

In an in-depth interview, Sanders offers a candid and passionate assessment of Trump, Clinton, and the future of his movement.

Policy wonk. Pragmatist. Truth-twister. There are many versions of Clinton—and we’ll need them all to navigate the political chaos unleashed by Trump.

Ava DuVernay made history with Selma. Now, in two new films, she’s taking on America’s prison system—and tesseracting through the universe.

Every year, nearly a thousand refugees from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East journey to Idaho to make a new life in America.

Sanders and Trump represent two different sides of American populism—and the uprisings they sparked could topple the established political order.

Why do people support Trump and the Tea Party? A native son and a sociologist search for answers.

Meet the worst political team ever assembled—an inner circle of outcasts, opportunists, and extremists with nowhere else to go.

How corruption and fraud created a failed state in Iraq—and led directly to the rise of ISIS.