A novel community-safety department has been taking calls off the hands of a force with the country’s second-highest fatal-shooting rate. Has it improved public safety?

Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.

After a college student finally found a treatment that worked, the insurance giant decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims.

Can we lower medical costs by giving the neediest patients better care?

'I am not the wise old fish. The point of the fish story is merely that the most obvious, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about.'

Scandal has dogged former football great Cuauhtémoc Blanco, now a rising political star in Mexico. His alleged ties to drug traffickers might have sunk a lesser candidate. But he has a powerful backer: President Andrés Manuel López Obrador

'Pink faces with stylish Southern sag, old Ivy styles, seersucker coats and buttondown collars. “Mayblossom Senility” (Steadman’s phrase) … burnt out early or maybe just not much to burn in the first place.'

Why does it feel like the company is making itself worse?

Heirs to an iconic fortune sought out a wealth manager who would assuage their progressive consciences. Now their dispute is exposing dynastic secrets.

Many with opioid-use disorders OD again and again. First responders are reaching out to offer a path to recovery.