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''The New Breadline,'' by Jean-Martin Bauer, a veteran food aid worker, chronicles a growing problem that should not exist -- along with the harmful policies that have exacerbated it. THE [...]

POVERTY, BY AMERICA, by Matthew Desmond Over the past decade or two, it has become fashionable to attribute major social ills to underlying ''systemic'' and ''structural'' causes. There seem to [...]

Alec MacGillis “Police don’t mean a damn thing when somebody is coming to get killed,” Corey Winfield, a violence interrupter, said. (PHOTOGRAPH BY RAHIM FORTUNE) Corey Winfield was ten when [...]

In mid-May, Steve Preston, who served as the secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the final two years of the George W. Bush administration, organized a dinner at the [...]

Byline: Alec MacGillis The Dollar-Store Deaths Discount chains are thriving. But what do they do to poor communities? tifPhotograph by Andres Gonzalez for The New YorkerSince 2017, nearly fifty people [...]

Byline: Alec MacGillis After the Crash A grieving family has devoted itself to proving that Boeing put profit over safety. tifPhoto Illustration by Paul SahreIn the wake of the 737 [...]

This article is a collaboration between The Times and ProPublica, the independent nonprofit investigative-journalism organization. Sign up here to get ProPublica's latest investigations. On April 27, 2015, Shantay Guy was [...]

GOOD KIDS, BAD CITY A Story of Race and Wrongful Conviction in America By Kyle Swenson Journalists fortunate enough to have started their careers at small-town newspapers or on city [...]

On the Saturday before Easter 2020, I set off on a drive from Baltimore, where I live, to Pittsfield, Massachusetts, where I grew up. There were stay-at-home orders in effect in Maryland, but I decided that a visit to my parents, whom I had not seen in several months, qualified as essential. I would stay elsewhere for the night, to keep a safe distance; we would go for an Easter Sunday walk., I departed Baltimore in the early evening. Interstate 95, the perpetually clogged corridor of the Eastern Seaboard, was emptier than I had ever seen it. Digital highway signs overhead declared [...]

The article explores how children in Virginia can get back on track from the effects of remote school as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Findings from a research reveal the economic consequences of pandemic-related learning loss and challenges facing students. It takes a look at the proposal of schools superintendent Jason Kamras in Richmond to extend the academic calendar and provide additional salary and bonus to teachers at participating schools, and the Fairfield Court pilot program.

Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia by Steven Stoll Hill & Wang, 432 pp. We are, one hears, spending too much time on Appalachia. There are too many dispatches from [...]

EDUCATED A Memoir By Tara Westover 335 pp. Random House. $28. America has struggled with the urban-rural divide for centuries, stretching all the way back to when Manhattan's own Alexander [...]

Dispatches One fall evening in 2020, Jarell Jackson and Shahjahan McCaskill were chatting in Jackson's Hyundai Sonata, still on a postvacation high, when 24 bullets ripped through the car. In early July, a shooting at a block party in Baltimore validated his concern: Though the event had been discussed widely on social media, no police officers were on hand; later, a video circulated of a teenager showing off what appeared to be a gun at the party. LAST YEAR, as the number of juvenile shooting victims in Washington, D.C., climbed toward triple digits, the city's Peace Academy, which trains community members in violence prevention, held a Zoom session dedicated to social media. Police had assigned an officer to monitor the social-media activity of various crews in the city, and the department suspected that the Northsiders in the SUV had mistaken one of the two friends for a rival Southsider and opened fire. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses increased violence across the country with increased homicide rates, and mentions rise to social disruption due to the pandemic and damaged relation of police community claimed by criminologists. Topics discussed include American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) passed by the U.S. Congress, Safe Streets faced challenges expanded in Baltimore, and announcement on funding from Department of Justice funds.

Osama Bin Laden's killing gave Barack Obama's presidency a much-needed boost. The challenge now is to explain why he has delivered so litde of the 'change' he promised After the [...]

Barack Obama called for a new politics, but during his first year in office his reforming agenda has run into bitter opposition. Something ineffable is missing. Can he recapture the [...]

In April 2006, the Richard Florida show arrived in the Southern Tier of Upstate New York. It was only one of the scores of appearances this decade by the economic-development [...]

For nearly two years, Barack Obama criss-crossed America and conjured for crowds of thousands a vision of the transformation of their country into a more decent, capable and broadly prosperous [...]

The townhouse on High Seas Court in the Cove Village development, in the Baltimore suburb of Essex, was not exactly the Cape Cod retreat that its address implied: It was [...]

Brandeis, the legendary jurist, recognized the broader spiritual and political cost of economic concentration. Today, that's more relevant than ever. The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age [...]

Ohio was once the home of the Old Guard, Main Street, county Chamber of Commerce Republican Party: stolid, sober, civil, fiscally conservative, socially enlightened. Dead serious in all matters. But [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDIn June, not long after Donald Trump attacked an Indiana-born judge because he was ''Mexican,'' I went to go see Representative Raúl Labrador in the Longworth Office Building on [...]

Byline: BY ALEC MacGILLIS THE BILLIONAIRES' LOOPHOLE A tax law helps David Rubenstein perform major patriotic philanthropic works. Is it fair? On August 23, 2011, a magnitude-5.8 earthquake shook the [...]

The article discusses the coal-exit plan of Germany that was passed in 2020 as part of the country's ambitious plan to transition to clean energy and to become a leader in the fight against climate change. Topics covered include the impact of the coal exit on industries, the feeling of betrayal expressed by people in the coal regions over compensation issues, and the vigorous climate-activism movement in Germany.

Only one of the Republican presidential hopefuls energises the crowds: a 76-year-old obstetrician from Texas who wants to abolish the Federal Reserve and repeal the Civil Rights Act. Now that [...]

The Bridge: the Life and Rise of Barack Obama David Remnick Picador, 672pp, £20 In the usual retelling of the showdown between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in 2008, the [...]

Bobby Jindal Governor of Louisiana Bobby Jindal talks too fast. That, both admirers and detractors agree, is the most noticeable flaw in the impressive presentation he offers as the first [...]

Byline: BY ALEC MacGILLIS TESTING TIME Jeb Bush's educational experiment. In December, Jeb Bush posted an up-date on his Facebook page which began by reporting that, over Thanksgiving, he and [...]

The article discusses Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. Consideration is given to his early life and career in politics. Particular attention is paid to the divisiveness some discern in Walker's governance, and circumstances in the Republican Party that the author believes have contributed to it. Indications of racism among those around Walker are cited.

The article discusses the political career of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie as of March 2014, focusing on an alleged shift in his public image from a popular bipartisan reformer to accusations of corruption and bullying. Topics include Christie's background and rise to prominence in politics, his political allies in New Jersey including George Norcross, Joe DiVincenzo, and Todd Christie, and reaction to the 2013-2014 "Bridgegate" traffic jam scandal from Republicans and Democrats.

The article focuses on Doug Band, former body man to former U.S. president Bill Clinton. The author suggests that Band's involvement with Bill and his wife, former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, may hurt Hillary's chances of winning a U.S. presidential election if she chooses to run. Topics include the Clintons' charitable foundation, the Clinton Foundation; Band's start-up corporate advisory firm Teneo; and the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) charity, which Band helped found.

The article discusses gun control in the U.S. as of April 2013. According to the article, groups such as the Mayors Against Illegal Guns political group of the politician Michael Bloomberg, individuals such as Sandy Phillips, whose daughter was shot in the 2012 Aurora, Colorado movie theater shooting, and politicians such as Joe Manchin support gun control despite the influence of the U.S. National Rifle Association. Topics include declining gun ownership rates in the U.S., background check legislation that was defeated in the U.S. Senate in 2013, and the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. The Moms Demand Action political group is mentioned.