In a fragmented and decentralized system, the NENA standard is perhaps the clearest indicator of 911’s efficacy. Yet dozens ...

Gunshots shook 20-year-old Jan Agha awake. They woke his father, too. But when the older man pulled aside a curtain to see what was going on in his home, he was shot in the throat and face. Jan Agha ...

On June 14, 2016, several agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement loaded a van with 2,000 pounds of marijuana, drove it to a busy shopping center in Chula Vista, California, and parked it ...

Three months into the global pandemic, Bill Gates has displaced George Soros as the chief bogeyman of the right. A Christian Right broadcaster, Brannon Howse of “Worldview Watch,” warned that Gates ...

The National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska may be the most misleadingly named landscape in North America. Its ungainly title conjures images of a huge oil field dotted with pumpjacks and drilling ...

The brittle wooden floors creak as we climb the stairs to the long room that served as a dormitory for Ojibwe girls at St. Mary’s Mission School on the Red Lake Indian Reservation in Minnesota. “My ...

Over the course of the coronavirus pandemic, e-commerce surged as lockdowns and social distancing confined many Americans to their homes. Now, even as many restrictions have been lifted, online ...

The memories come to her in fragments. The bed creaking late at night after one of her brothers snuck into her room and pulled her to the edge of her mattress. Her underwear shoved to the side as his ...

Near the banks of the North Thompson River in British Columbia, about 400 miles northeast of Vancouver, the Tiny House Warriors village announces itself with a hand-painted sign attached to wooden ...

Every weekday morning outside the 16-story apartment complex at 1400 East-West Highway in Silver Spring, Maryland, students step onto big yellow buses that take them to school. It’s not a particularly ...

In April, Robin Lundstrum, a Republican lawmaker in the Arkansas House of Representatives, traveled to Missouri to testify in support of a bill that would ban doctors from providing or referring ...