Features & Investigations

Martin fled Cameroon when security forces imprisoned his father and started regularly raiding Anglophone villages. The U.S. government might send him back.

The International Astronomical Union has established a committee to finalize a list of official star names. Some companies offer unofficial naming rights for purchase. But the voices of certain communities are often left behind.

Without the fanfare of a bill signing or a Supreme Court decision, the first state without an abortion clinic is in sight.

She was young. She was pregnant. She was one of thousands of Native women who go missing every year. Now her disappearance could help others to be found.

The Charleston Gazette-Mail, known for its dogged accountability journalism, survived a merger and bankruptcy. Will it survive a new owner with ties to the very industries its reporters have been watchdogging?

How do you keep rural schools open when enrollment is declining and small towns are emptying out?

Douglas Domenech's communications with his former employer, the Koch-backed Texas Public Policy Foundation, are more extensive than previously known.

Pharmaceutical companies exploited a regulatory loophole that allowed for a decades-long boom in licit opioid production fueled by Tasmanian-grown poppies. Here's what the island can tell us about the next wave of the crisis.

An estimated 524,000 children work unimaginably long hours in America's grueling agricultural fields, and it's all perfectly legal.

An introduction to a four-story package on the misunderstood middle of our nation.

Under the Trump administration, some gay bars have found themselves wrestling anew with anti-queer prejudice.

After North Carolina passed strict voter ID laws, trans activists in the state successfully advocated to reduce the DMV requirements for changing gender on an ID.

The international idea of who counts as a refugee is over half a century old. But today the lines between "refugee," "migrant," and "illegal border crosser" have all begun to blur.

Far from the border, Chicago's Immigration Court reveals the failings of the nation's asylum system.

Is the genetically engineered chestnut tree an act of ecological restoration or a threat to wild forests?

An excerpt from Robert Macfarlane's new book Underland.

Panchito Olachea crossed the border into the U.S. at 16, and was deported at 48. He's now building a community of deportees who, like him, won't try to cross back.

Perry Dino is capturing Hong Kong's demonstrations against the mainland in a series of unique and powerful paintings.

Hundreds of Marines lost their lives in Helmand before troop withdrawal. Christopher Jones returned to see what those lives had been lost to achieve.

Countries riven by inequality and xenophobia won't be resilient to climate change—which means that the fight against nationalism and the fight against global warming are actually one and the same.

Instead of releasing detainees, ICE is sending immigrants to remote, privately run facilities far from their lawyers and families.

Separated by ideology, we carried on with our lives in starkly different places, each sticking to the truth we'd chosen to listen to, unable to see the other's reality.

A dispatch from the ongoing war on America’s public lands.

From the beginning, the Central Valley's productivity was a result of the most intensive farming experiment the world had ever seen. And now, farmers are pushing even harder against biological realities. An excerpt from Mark Arax's critically acclaimed new book, "The Dreamt Land."