Amid a crew morale crisis, the military has replaced the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln in the Middle East with another aircraft carrier. Our Pentagon reporter John Ismay, a Navy veteran, explains how the challenges to supply ships in the area will most likely remain the same.

Supreme Court justices could keep the court’s internal working papers hidden for decades. Our investigative reporter Jodi Kantor explains why those records matter — and what sealing them away means for our understanding of key decisions by the nation’s highest court.

The Supreme Court’s emergency docket has shrunk in recent months, and the way justices issue opinions on these cases has also changed. Our reporter Ann Marimow looks at what these shifts tell us about the justices, and what it could mean for the court.

Our reporter Devlin Barrett explains why the Department of Justice is pursuing small-time fraud cases, and what that means for larger fraud investigations at the department.