A story of truth, lies, and an American addiction.
Months after the Newtown shooting, one family arrives at a reckoning.
The former heir to a racist movement reconciles with the ideology he helped spread.
Paul Gayle had no job, no money, a new baby and 16 lessons from the Obama administration to teach him what to do next.
Another mass shooting was over. The country had moved on. But one family was learning the unending extent of a wound.
A policy change separated Javier Flores from his family and sent him back to Mexico, where nothing looked familiar.
"Why couldn't I stop him?"
Scot Peterson was the only armed deputy at a high school in Parkland, Fla., where he stood outside as the shooting continued.
"We don't know why it came to this."
A lonely death in rural Oklahoma.
"You're one of us now."
Ten years after Katrina forced them to rural Nebraska, the Williams were in need of rescue again.
Rachel Crooks was 22 when she first met Donald Trump by the elevator, and she's still trying to understand what happened next.
"What Kind of Childhood is That?"
Orphaned by the opioid epidemic.
He had broken no laws when police came to his door in the latest controversial attempt at American gun reform.
Two terrorists left their 6-month old at home and killed 14 in California. What would happen to their baby?
Weeks after live-streaming her boyfriend's death, Diamond Reynolds was being tested again.
A teenager wanted to challenge the gun culture in her rural Wyoming town. Would anyone listen?
Transitioning from military to civilian life, and from camaraderie to isolation.
Selling success in the age of failure.
Food stamps put a Rhode Island town on a monthly boom-and-bust cycle.
The decline of the American middle class reaches another Indiana town.
In the shadow of a volcano, a Washington town hires its first black police officer, and nothing goes as planned.
A professional baseball millionaire lives by his own code.
A 10-year-old boy faces risk and doubts on his way across the border to reunite with his mother.
At the center of the U.S. border crisis, one deputy works to police 1,000 square miles.
Days after a fatal collision, a player returns to the field.