A lesson in how not to handle a mistake. Plus: Finding Roger Marshall, and change-making reporting on sexual assault in San Francisco.

Racism, misogyny, xenophobia, and consistently high ratings. Plus: ProPublica’s school experiment, and a New Hampshire investigation with impact.

“I’m really fucking busy being the real Chris Hansen,” and other thoughts about Primetime.

The press stands up for itself, together. Plus: A surrender to—not a settlement with—Paramount, and a great HBO crime doc.

A collaboration between KFF Health News and local outlets enabled reporters to produce a clearer picture of opioid settlement spending than the oversight body did. Plus: Cartoonish AI, and essential immigration crackdown data.

The Jezebel founder’s lifelong struggle to break free of feminine conventions.

Absent public records, NJ.com poured resources into research—and turned up devastating findings. Plus: Lost BET archives, and an extraordinary escape from Afghanistan, years after 9/11.

The Wall Street Journal’s opinion page embraces an AI submission. Plus: Tracking the expulsion of climate science from Florida textbooks, and putting out prison fires.

Stars and Stripes does its duty for the USS Abraham Lincoln—and the First Amendment. Plus: Poll psychosis and book tracking.

A brutal fire season in the Pacific Northwest. Plus: USA Today’s Palantir partnership; separate and unequal in Tennessee.