On the eve of the midterm elections, we look at one tweak to voting that could help bring democracy back from the brink …

Part Three of our Border Trilogy, in which we hear the story of a woman from Ecuador who died in the Arizona desert. And we ask, what could stop migrants from risking so much?

Part Two of our Border Trilogy, in which one Border Patrol agent changes the entire agency’s enforcement strategy, and one anthropologist tries to measure its deadly consequences.

Part One of our Border Trilogy, in which we chronicle an unlikely legal showdown between high schoolers in one of the poorest neighborhoods in the country and the US Border Patrol.

How Ruth Bader Ginsburg used a trojan horse, filled with frat boys and beer, to win a battle for gender equality.

Stories of striving, grasping, tripping, and falling for happiness, perfection, and Bliss.

Today, a hidden power that is either the cornerstone of our democracy or a trapdoor to anarchy.

A journey to one of the darkest sides of humanity’s attempts to measure the human mind and put people in boxes.

When Albert Einstein died, someone stole his brain — and kicked off a scavenger hunt for genius that won’t seem to let us go.