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Matt Rourke / AP Criminal-Justice Reform Survives Its First Stress Test
Why didn’t the fall of former Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams on fraud and corruption charges doom his reform-minded agenda?
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Brynn Anderson / AP The Rise of Rural Incarceration
Local jails in smaller counties are seeing enormous growth. A new report explains why.
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Toby Melville / Reuters The Grenfell Tower Fire and London's Public-Housing Crisis
“The spectacular nature of the fire may be a one-off, but the conditions that made it possible are not.”
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Gerald Herbert / AP Why New Orleans Leads the U.S. in Wrongful Convictions
Louisiana just passed a suite of prison-reform bills, but that may not put a huge dent in incarceration rates.
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James Leynse / Getty Images Why Boston Is Paying Ex-Gang Members to Go to College
The deal: $400 a week to stay in school. Is it worth it?
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Environmental Communications / LAXART What the Instagram of the 1970s Reveals About Los Angeles
A new retrospective looks at a group of young photographers who infiltrated academic slide libraries with radical images of a changing city.
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Library of Congress / Reuters What Betsy DeVos Didn't Say About School Choice
Charter schools have fueled school resegregation in urban America.
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Stefanie Loos Companies in Gay-Friendly States Are More Innovative
Firms in places with more tolerant laws, new research indicates, attract more talented workers and file more patents.
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Douglas Remley / Smithsonian How a Museum Captures African American History
A floor-by-floor preview of the Smithsonian’s National African American Museum of History and Culture
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Bebeto Matthews / AP Where Charter-School Suspensions Are Concentrated
Many cities are rethinking how they discipline students, but old practices remain in some neighborhoods.
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Susan Walsh / AP The Hidden Epidemic of Teen Hunger
Food insecurity has become normalized among American adolescents—who are also particularly vulnerable to its risks.
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Damir Sagolj / Reuters How Beijing’s New Residency System Favors the Elite
China’s capital is instituting a process for migrants to call the city their home. But who does it really benefit?
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Amy Harris / AP No Prison for Big Freedia
The New Orleans Bounce music legend has been caught in the crosshairs of the city’s complicated housing policies.
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Carlos Osorio / AP The Most Segregating School-District Borders in America
A new report identifies 50 places where schools are geographically adjacent but resourcefully juxtaposed.
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Markus Schreiber / AP Germany's Radical, Pro-Refugee Urban-Planning Experiment
A look at the country's burgeoning "arrival cities"
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Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP A Former Palo Alto City Planner on Silicon Valley’s Housing Mess
”People look around and think, ‘Boy, things are expensive.’ They don’t realize that they’re expensive because of decisions that the local government makes.”
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Robb Williamson / AECOM How to Pack Up After Your Olympic Games
What happens to all those stadiums?
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Anthony DelMundo / Reuters Why Kindergarteners Might Still Be Suspended in New York City
Mayor de Blasio’s proposed “ban” on the disciplinary measure may not be a ban at all.
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Bruno Kelly / Reuters Rio’s Techno-Utopian Future for the Rich
How the city’s vision for a networked infrastructure system will make its inequality problem worse
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Ricardo Moraes / Reuters Rio's Olympic Subway Boondoggle
How a $3.1-billion project is a boon for Rio's richest
