School. Sports. Clubs. There's an app for everything a kid does — and parents are trying to keep up with it all.

The most haunting detail is the child she leaves behind. Barely a year old, he now faces a future without his mother and with a father entangled in a criminal probe.

The camp is not a conventional prison—it is a hybrid of a military base, interrogation site, and holding facility.

One of the first lessons I learned when I tried to run for local office is that politics is less about ideas than it is about ...