A Grassroots Uprising in Amish Country Begins to Find Meaning in Politics
The civic muscle is being exercised in Jess King's unlikely drive to flip a deeply red district. It's paying surprising dividends along the way.
Special Investigations
A Father Took His 10-Year-Old Fishing. She Fell in the Water and Drowned. It Was a Tragic Accident — Then He Was Charged With Murder.
Wendell Lindsey is serving life in a Texas prison, but his conviction relied on dubious drowning science and a key witness with secrets of her own.
Glenn Greenwald Interviews Kerri Harris: Can the Insurgency Now Defeat a Centrist U.S. Senator?
Two months ago, Kerri Harris, running for U.S. Senate in Delaware, barely had a campaign, and she only recently opened her first office.
The Man Behind the Barcelona Attacks Was on Police Radar for Years. How Did They Let It Happen?
A year after the attack on Las Ramblas, the unfolding story of Abdelbaki Es Satty points more to a failure of the police than of the community he hid among.
Benjamin Netanyahu Is Fine With Anti-Semites — as Long as They Support Israel’s Occupation
Benjamin Netanyahu often accuses his political opponents of anti-Semitism, but has no qualms surrounding himself with actual card-carrying anti-Semites.
“Forget Your Son”: Brazil Is Forcibly Taking Indigenous Children and Putting Them Up for Adoption
Without land and living in extreme poverty, indigenous mothers in Brazil are fighting back against local authorities who are taking their children.
As Twitter Suspends Alex Jones, Should We Worry About Silicon Valley Regulating Speech?
Sam Biddle, Glenn Greenwald, and Briahna Joy debate how the left should consider free speech issues in the context of powerful online platforms.
He Grew Up Thinking He Was American — Until He Was Deported
Mauricio Cappelli, with his thick Wisconsin accent, was deported to his birth country after learning as an adult that he did not have citizenship.
Inside a Sleazy FBI Sting Involving Diet Clinics, Fitness Models, Money Laundering, and a Supposed Plot to Hire a Hitman
Emile Bouari was an unprincipled businessman who’d been accused of ripping people off. But it would take Operation Bo-Tox to get him to launder money.
Chilling Testimony in a Tennessee Trial Exposes Lethal Injection as Court-Sanctioned Torture
The trial was a case study in the twisted legacy of Glossip v. Gross — and a close-up look at the botched executions that continue amid little controversy.