The Political Scene: Texas Roundup
How Greg Abbott made his state the staging ground for Donald Trump’s mass-deportation campaign.

Our Local Correspondents: Where’s Elvis?
Bandits grabbed a kitschy plaster bust. Was it a theft or a liberation?

Annals of Higher Education: As Harvard Goes
Free-speech battles and outside pressures threaten American universities. Will the oldest bend or break?

American Chronicles: Tragedy at Rock Springs
In 1885, white rioters killed dozens of Chinese immigrants. The story of the atrocity is still being unearthed.

A Reporter at Large: Sisterhood
A remarkable alliance between an order of Catholic nuns and the women on Texas’s death row.

Onward and Upward with the Arts: Stepping Out
High-school band contests turn marching into a sport—and an art.

A Reporter at Large: Half the Battle
Why can’t the U.S. military fill its depleted ranks?

Annals of Medicine: True Blood
One of the most valuable substances in the world has never been replicated. Are we close?