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Law and legislation

How to Make Your Own AR-15

by Dan Baum,

A gunman kills 49 people with an AR-15 assault rifle at an Orlando nightclub; Dan Baum investigates whether gun-control laws could ever stop the weapon from proliferating

Hashtag Prescription

by Helen Ouyang,

The hidden cost of crowd-sourcing a cure

The Long Rescue

by Sonia Faleiro,

A man’s search for his kidnapped children

Legalize It All

by Dan Baum,

How to win the war on drugs

Swedish Snaps

by Alicia O’Reardon Overbeck,

In 1930 we went to live in Sweden. Before we had unpacked, and while I was still in that baffled mood that always comes on me when forced to tackle…

Emerald Sea

by Robert P. Baird,

The making and unmaking of a half-billion-dollar treasure hunt

Suing for Justice

by Ralph Nader,

Your lawsuits are good for America

Slow Feud

by Kimberly Davis, Shawn Musgrave,

From messages between Shawn Musgrave, a reporter for MuckRock.com, and Kimberly Davis, a clerk in Rowan County, Kentucky, who defied an August 2015 court order to issue marriage licenses to…