A fire that no one could stop is burning down a city that was built on the ridge between the mountain and the sky. "If you have been told to evacuate, please don't wait! Structures have already been b…
The manufacturer calls them an "invisible partner." The user manual warns they can cause sudden death. "Now they will be able to deploy electric shocks with the slight push of a button that maybe nobo…
He was on his way to a soccer game when they took him. "The detention of Liam and my brother-in-law was cruel; they are not criminals, they were simply on their way to a soccer match." — Patricia Rese…
A diagnosis the science has largely abandoned is still deciding who gets to be a parent and who goes to prison, and the country has just watched it die on the record in open court. Danica Rue, executi…
The Department of Justice has quietly hired a convicted election hacker to oversee election "integrity," and in the fall it will put a thousand monitors at polling places across the country. "The Unit…
The government deleted the country's best climate website. The people who built it are now running it from a shadow domain, with the servers humming on a budget that would not buy a single new NOAA sa…
The police already had permission to watch from the sky. What they didn't have was a lock on the video. "There's a certain trust given to the police to use these things correctly. When you're watching…
A man who bailed wounded sailors from a burning warship, who no one had trained to fire the gun he fired anyway, is being erased by the same institution he saved from the sea. "Dorie Miller was the so…
When the Justice Department finds nothing wrong, the funding still gets cut. "There's no way we're going to get a letter of no violation cleared." — A Trump administration official, as described by th…