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The Commute

Observations of the daily journeys made by workers in big cities from photographer Cassandra Zampini

Flint's Emergency Managers Face Felony Charges Over Lead in the Water

The officials include two people appointed by Governor Rick Snyder to run the city.

‘Photography Is Not a Team Sport’

The key to capturing history? Be as lucky as you are ferocious.

The Farms of West Oakland

Images of urban agriculture programs by photographer Preston Gannaway

The Last of the Birthers

Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona’s Maricopa County reveals the “profound” and quite “disturbing” results of his five-year investigation into the president’s birth certificate.

The Pathos of El Faro's Final Hours

Across 500 pages of transcript drawn from the sunken freighter’s bridge, crew members question the decision to sail into Hurricane Joaquin and gradually grasp their perilous situation.

Returning to Ohio

How a small, Midwestern town has changed over the decades—and where it aims to go

The Supreme Court Case That Could Bankrupt Religious Schools and Hospitals

Advocate Health Care Network v. Stapleton pits financially strained organizations against their own workers, who fear their promised pensions may not be there when they retire.

Red States in the Hot Seat

Areas of the country Trump won by large margins are particularly vulnerable to the environmental devastation wrought by climate change.

What Caused the Deadly Oakland Warehouse Fire?

Firefighters have now found 36 bodies inside the artist collective where dozens of people lived together.

A Hidden American Anger

Life in Ohio's proud but economically abandoned small towns