November 03, 2016

My Journey to the Center of the

I went to a white nationalist ethnostate in Indiana.
I got bounced from a secret meeting in D.C. I spent weeks figuring out how hate gurgles up from the nastiest recesses of the Internet. And I’m sorry to report that unconscionable racists will be a force in American politics well beyond November 8.

BY Luke O’Brien

My Journey to the Center of the Alt-Right

'They were supposed to die in prison. But thanks to an ingenious discovery, they were given a second chance.

By Luke O’Brien
Stories that stay with you.

The future of America is being written in this tiny office.

It’s time to get interested in what Hillary’s policy team is up to.

By Jonathan Cohn

Is Ivanka For Real?

One of the greatest enigmas of 2016, explained.

By Hannah Seligson

Sandra Bland Died One Year Ago

And since then, at least 810 people have lost their lives in jail.

By Dana Liebelson & Ryan J. Reilly

Sad!

These three campaign gurus for Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio have had some time to reflect on this nightmare of a campaign. And do they ever have stories to tell.

By Sam Stein
"Doctors would be offered paid speaking fees based on the number of Risperdal prescriptions they wrote."

America's Most Admired Lawbreaker

Over the course of 20 years, Johnson & Johnson created a powerful drug, promoted it illegally to children and the elderly, covered up the side effects and made billions of dollars. This is the inside story.

By Steven Brill

Meet the Ungers

Several decades ago, when they were young, 229 men and one woman were convicted of terrible crimes—murders, rapes, robberies. They thought they were going to die in prison. They were supposed to. But then, just a few years back, Merle Unger Jr., one of the most notorious escape artists of our time, discovered an ingenious (and legal) way to get them out. It was an unimagined second chance for them—and a nerve-wracking experiment for everyone else.

By Jason Fagone

Trump at War

How the military is preparing for the possibility of a wild card in the Situation Room.

By Andy Kroll

Drugs You Don't Need for Disorders You Don't Have

Inside the pharmaceutical industry's campaign to put us all to sleep.

By Jonathan Cohn

Out Here, No One Can Hear You Scream

Why some women in national parks and forests have a tougher time than women in the military.

By Kathryn Joyce

How Mark Zuckerberg Should Give Away $45 Billion

It's complicated.

By Michael Hobbes

American Electoral

Seven Days on the Trail with Kevin Baker and Jack Hitt.

By Jack Hitt & Kevin Baker
"Listening to consumer advocacy campaigns, you’d think our only influence on the developing world is at the cash register."

The Myth of the Ethical Shopper

We're still trying to eliminate sweatshops and child labor by buying right. But that's not how the world works in 2015.

By Michael Hobbes

‘I Woke Up In a Parallel Universe’

Six months ago, the worst thing that ever happened to me was the biggest news on the internet. Now…

By Jackie Fuchs

The Shooting Gallery

When Correctional Officers Carry Shotguns, The Result is Death And Mayhem.

By Dana Liebelson
"I'm like a shark," Fowley said. "I'll smell the blood."

The Lost Girls

One famous band. One huge secret. Many lives destroyed.

By Jason Cherkis

Instruments of Oppression

Thousands of rape victims around the world undergo grisly and unsafe abortions because of U.S. policy. Obama could change this with a single executive action. Why hasn't he?

By Laura Bassett

Love in the Age of Big Data

Scientists believe they've discovered a simple formula for happy relationships. Reader, I tried it.

By Eve Fairbanks

They Burn Witches Here

And then they upload the photos to social media. A journey to an island caught between the ancient world and 2015.

By Kent Russell

Scenes from a Marriage

The worst relationship between a U.S. President and an Israeli Prime Minister ever-as autopsied by the people closest to them.

By Tal Shalev & Amir Tibon

The Human Body is a Miracle, the Human Body is a Curse

The potential Olympian whose brain is at war with her body.

By Duncan Murrell

Stop the Madness

There's a miraculous new treatment for schizophrenia that could transform the way we treat mental illness. And then there are the terrible reasons why most medical professionals have never heard of it.

By Jonathan Cohn

Lagarde-ian of the Galaxy

The first female chief of the IMF on the Greek meltdown, a historic refugee crisis and one thing Hillary Clinton has in common with an "old crocodile."

By Isaac Chotiner

Mothers of Isis

Their children abandoned them to join the worst terror organization on earth. Now all they have is each other.

By Julia Ioffe

Welcome to Beautiful Parkersburg, West Virginia

Home to one of the most brazen, deadly corporate gambits in U.S. history.

By Mariah Blake

His Town

Yousef Al-Otaiba is the most charming man in Washington: He's slick, he's savvy and he throws one hell of a party. And if he has his way, our Middle East policy is going to get a lot more aggressive.

By Ryan Grim and Akbar Shahid Ahmed

"Everything Was New and Pretty Wondrous"

A long time ago (last week) in a city far, far away (Baltimore), Alice Bowman guided the most ambitious space mission in a generation. Here, she explains what it's like to glimpse the edge of the solar system.

By Rachel Morris

Let's Go Full Crocodile, Ladies

A documentary that disappeared more than 40 years ago—available to everyone for the first time here—is a gift to modern-day feminists. It's belligerent, it's hilarious, and it reveals exactly what the Clinton campaign is missing.

By Rebecca Traister

The Life and Death of an Amazon Warehouse Temp

What the future of low-wage work really looks like.

By Dave Jamieson

Cruel and All-Too-Usual

A terrifying glimpse into life in prison—as a kid.

By Dana Liebelson

What is Huffington Post Highline?

Let us explain.

By Greg Veis and Rachel Morris