Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn believes that politics have left young people behind. In an interview with Der Spiegel, he speaks about Brexit, the crisis of social democracy in Europe and the uphill battle to unite his party.

Border Patrol agents are extending their reach deep into the country’s interior. By Melissa del Bosque.

How a surgeon who has been dubbed “Dr. Death” got away with harming patients for a criminally long time. By Laura Beil.

Georgia, Texas cases show states whistling past voting security graveyard. By Sean Gallagher.

Helping children distinguish fake from real news will give them a lifelong benefit. By Prateek Puri.

Over and over we’ve gotten scientific wake-up calls, and over and over we’ve hit the snooze button. If we keep doing that, climate change will no longer be a problem, because calling something a problem implies there’s still a solution. By Bill McKibben.

Immigration officials stopped allowing a volunteer group to visit people at a local detention facility unless its members agreed not to talk with the press or other groups about conditions inside. By Kate Morrissey.

United States elections are not evidence-based elections. Their potential vulnerability is critical because the entire system of our democracy depends on public trust—the belief that, however divided the country is, the result has integrity. Nothing is more insidious and corrosive than the idea that the tally of votes itself could be unreliable and exposed to fraud. By Jennifer Cohn.

Three companies dominate the U.S. voting-maching industry. By Anders Melin and Reade Pickert.

On the eve of the midterms, the most powerful man on earth corrals his troops around two visions of America – one full of hope, the other one much darker – and tests the ground for 2020. By Ed Pilkington.

His supporters hark back to an 1860s fantasy of white male dominance. But the Confederacy won’t win in the long run, says Rebecca Solnit

Using Chinese-language sources and analysis of papers published by Chinese military scientists, the report presents the first detailed analysis of the nature and scale of this overlooked issue. By Alex Joske.

Contra the conventional wisdom, Democrats are far from having 2018 locked up. By Peter Van Buren.

Throughout his time as the Trump administration’s Interior Secretary, Zinke has been at odds with conservationists on the Endangered Species Act. By Stephan Cho.

The United States shows all the warning signs of impending social and political collapse. By Stephen Marche.

What happened when Boston Public Schools tried for equity with an algorithm. By David Scharfenberg, Irfan Uraizee, Saurabh Datar. (Sept. 21, 2018)

Intelligence agencies, Nikki Haley, sanctions, and public opinion. By Stephen F. Cohen.

Everything from food to oil depends on underpaid and overworked drivers. By Elisabeth Braw. (Sept. 19, 2018)

In World War II, Britain invented the electronic computer. By the 1970s, its computing industry had collapsed—thanks to a labor shortage produced by sexism. By Marie Hicks.

When ICE launched an immigration crime hotline last year, the Trump administration pitched it as a way to provide resources to victims, but activists saw something else: an attack on the immigrant community. The hotline was part of the Victims Of Immigration Crime Engagement (VOICE) Office, an outfit established in February 2017. When the office first launched a line for its services the following April, protestors flooded the hotline to call in pranks and slow down response times. The plan picked up even more steam as the protestors shared the hotline number online, encouraging others to call in with fake tips.