These photos offer a stark reminder that, 22 years after apartheid, the country is still defined by massive inequality and stark segregation.

Trump isn’t the first conspiracy theorist in chief—just the most shameless.

All across America, Klan and neo-Nazi groups are not only flourishing—they’re joining forces.

Reagan started it. Bush expanded it. Now conservatives are poised to privatize everything in sight.

What Trump shares with America's best swindlers.

How the Heritage Foundation is shaping the president's playbook.

How Rorschach’s inkblots turned personality testing into an art.

Revisiting Irving Kristol, the conservative thinker who predicted Trump’s rise.

Meet the hackers trying to solve the problem of death.

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

By focusing on high-definition thrills, nature documentaries obscure more than they reveal.

It wasn't America's rampant misogyny that doomed Hillary Clinton.

Sarah Manguso's aphorisms feel powerful in our age of alternative facts.

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?

From terrorism to populism, today's sweeping unrest has its roots in brutal competition.