For more than two decades, two men in Huntsville, Alabama, have quietly held the keys to America’s voting machines.First, there was Shawn Southworth, who floated from lab to lab like a ghost in a white coat. Certifying code he didn’t test, using scripts he didn’t write, for companies that paid him…

Before he was J.D. Vance, he was James David Hamel. Before that, James Donald Bowman. The name he carries today he chose himself in 2013 — months before graduating Yale, crafting an identity as carefully as any political brand.And a name, as it turns out, was not the only part of his identity that…

Let me walk you through something.If you wanted to build a system to exploit young women and make it basically invisible, you’d design something that looked exactly like the New York modeling industry of the 1990s. You’d recruit teenagers from countries where they don’t speak English. You’d fly…

In 1933, a circle of Wall Street financiers allegedly hatched a plan to overthrow Franklin Roosevelt. They didn’t want to kill him. They wanted to keep him in his chair, smiling for photographs, while a puppet official — controlled by the men who paid for the operation — ran the country.This was…