Emily Witt

Living through Operation Metro Surge, and what came after.

A new series of photographs documents residents’ evolving resistance to the surge of ICE agents in their city.

As thousands of ICE agents arrived, kids started staying home from school. A local principal, teachers, and parent volunteers have banded together to keep the families safe.

As Donald Trump brings his retribution to a liberal city, citizens, protesters, and civic leaders try to protect one another.

Michael Clune follows up memoirs about drug addiction and computer games with “Pan,” a novel about a teen-ager with anxiety set in the nineties.

Open it up, log on anonymously, and you’ll get a real-time sexual map of your neighborhood.

As communities across Southern California document and protest the escalating raids, loved ones grapple with the unimaginable.

President Trump’s assertions that federal troops have saved the city from destruction did not appear to reflect reality.

From the daily newsletter: a report from Florida’s billionaire enclave.

An influx of ultra-high-net-worth newcomers has increased demand for experienced—and discreet—household staff.

In Arizona, a crowd of thousands suggested that the left still has a pulse.

In the wake of Donald Trump’s executive order banning transition-related care for minors, hospitals in blue states began cancelling appointments—forcing families in New York and beyond to consider whether even liberal cities are safe.

In a Los Angeles suburb, multigenerational families like the Benns found affordable housing and a deep sense of connection. After the devastating fires, many wonder whether they’ll be able to rebuild what they’ve lost.

With four fires raging, tens of thousands have evacuated and others are confronting the precarity of where they live.

In Georgia, Barack Obama spoke of character, and in Michigan, Michelle Obama reminded voters of the stakes for women’s lives.

A bellwether county in Wisconsin appears evenly divided in the final stretch.

At campaign stops in southeastern Georgia and New Hampshire, the Democratic candidate tried to win voters in counties outside her party’s strongholds.

With Kamala Harris preparing to take the spotlight at the D.N.C., Party factions seek to project unity and joy.

Less than a week after the Republican National Convention took over Milwaukee, Harris spoke at a high-school rally there to a crowd of ebullient Democrats.

On Friday night, before the party, I put a single drop of LSD into a glass of water. I drank half, and Andrew drank the other half. For the next couple of hours, while he made beats in his studio, I lay in bed with my eyes closed, listening to one of the final mixes made by Andrew Weatherall, a British d.j. who had got his start in the nineteen-eighties club scene and had recently died. The tracks had titles like “Jagged Mountain Melts at Dawn” and “The Descending Moonshine Dervishes.” I sat up…