The Texas-Sized Plan To Shut You Up
A corporate-led attack on free speech in Texas is making odd bedfellows and tearing the state’s GOP apart.
Local Politics
YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Rewriting The Prescription Playbook
States are cutting out the medicine middleman, an Ivy League college fixes its math, questionable opioid prescriptions are set right, and vacations just got simpler.
Paging Dr. Land Baron
Nonprofit hospitals are building tax-exempt real estate empires — and working to crush politicians who stand in their way.
YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: A City Runs Clean
A major city cleans up its act, states water local news deserts, indie bookstores kindle competition, and mergers must happen out in the open.
The American Dream (Water Not Included)
Real estate developers are running a dark-money campaign to overturn new housing rules — and ignore basic laws of nature.
The Democrat Who Defied The Trump Wave
Chris Deluzio keeps winning a battleground district in the nation’s most pivotal swing state — could he point the way forward for his floundering party?
BONUS: Chris Deluzio In His Own Words
A deep dive with the young Pennsylvania representative whose populist economic message is beating the political odds.
This Election, Health Care Is On Life Support
In the heart of the state that could decide the election, people are grappling with a crisis largely ignored by both Trump and Harris.
Dark Money’s Plan To Keep States In The Dark
Corporate interests are trying to kill one of the country’s strongest dark money transparency laws in a major swing state.
Amid Hurricane Milton, Florida Republicans Aim To Block Climate Emergency Declaration
As the storm bears down on their districts, fossil fuel-backed Reps. Greg Steube and Byron Donalds are pushing legislation claiming the climate crisis is a “false emergency.”