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CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER
Clearview Al's far-right founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their facial recognition dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration.
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May/June 2025
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SCHOOL'S OUT FOREVER
How hybrid homeschools hoover up your state tax dollars
5 min |
May/June 2025
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LOSING THE FARM
How RFK Jr's healthy-foods movement swallowed up some of the Democratic base
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March/April 2025
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The Unflinching Courage of Taylor Cadle
The police said she lied about being raped. Then she hit record.
10+ min |
March/April 2025
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VIRTUOUS CYCLE
The big money push to tell women to bring back \"natural\" birth control
3 min |
March/April 2025
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POWER OF THE PURSE
There's never been an administration this rich. History says it won't end well.
6 min |
March/April 2025
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ENTITLEMENTS
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy's DOGE reboots austerity for the era of Big Tech.
3 min |
March/April 2025
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POET OF THE PEOPLE
aja monet is reviving the Black Arts Movement's tradition of pairing poetry with live music-and drawing Gen Z to her shows.
10 min |
March/April 2025
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THE HIT LIST
Trump wants to remake America. These are the people who will suffer.
10+ min |
March/April 2025
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PRISON BREAK
There are many programs trying to reduce recidivism. This one works.
10+ min |
March/April 2025
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THE PLOT AGAINST BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP
It's time to take the rhetoric about \"anchor babies\" seriously.
6 min |
March/April 2025
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CIVIL WAR
The legal industry's monopoly on advice ensures only the rich can afford a lawyer. Now, an unlikely coalition is fighting to change that-—and it might just succeed.
10+ min |
March/April 2025
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WILL CONGRESS EVER "LIBERATE" METHADONE?
Drug user activists are teaming up with doctors and legislators to upend a degrading clinic system.
6 min |
March/April 2025
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HOG WILD
The scandalous reason meat prices have skyrocketed
3 min |
January/February 2025
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ALL WALKS
Limiting cars in cities can help disabled people, too.
4 min |
January/February 2025
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REMIGRATION
How Trumpism is following the far right in Europe toward mass expulsion of immigrants
3 min |
January/February 2025
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SETTLING THE SCORE
A pop psychology book is considered the definitive trauma text. But what if it's leading survivors down the wrong path?
10 min |
January/February 2025
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Positive Spin
People with e-bikes drive less, pollute less, parkinglots-and that's only part of why cities and states are embracing them with gusto.
10+ min |
January/February 2025
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Cradle and All
The devastating cost of Utah's thriving adoption industry
10+ min |
January/February 2025
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THE BILLIONAIRE WHO NEARLY BROKE NEWPORT
TRUMP MEGADONOR STEPHEN SCHWARZMAN'S EXTREME MANSION MAKEOVER IS DRIVING HIS NEIGHBORS NUTS.
10+ min |
January/February 2025
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THE SECRET PLAN TO STRIKE DOWN US GUN LAWS
AND THE COP-TURNED-PASTOR AT THE CENTER OF IT ALL
10+ min |
January/February 2025
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GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK
Election Day inside a bustling broadcast newsroom that no longer exists
10 min |
January/February 2025
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MASTER OF DISASTER
Trump won’t confront the climate crisis. He’ll feast off it.
7 min |
January/February 2025
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DOWN IN THE VALLEY
How Democrats lost Latino support in California—and the House of Representatives
8 min |
January/February 2025
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THE ENEMY WITHIN
How Trump could turn the federal government into an instrument of repression
5 min |
January/February 2025
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OF MISOGYNY, MUSK, AND MEN
Women are not okay. We're furious
7 min |
January/February 2025
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THE OLIGARCH ELECTION
Billionaires have long meddled in politics. But never like this.
8 min |
January/February 2025
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In the Name of the Mother - How Shyamala Gopalan Harris raised a presidential contender
Shyamala Gopalan Harris did not believe in coddling. Pay her daughters, Kamala and Maya, an allowance for doing chores? “If you do the dishes, you should get two dollars,” scoffed the woman who this past summer, almost two decades after we spoke, would launch a million coconut memes. “You ate from the damn dishes!” Reward the future vice president of the United States—and possible future president—for good grades? Ridiculous. “What does that tell you?” her mother chided. “It says, ‘You know, I really thought you were stupid. Oh, you surprised Mommy!’ No.”
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November/December 2024
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Kill the Messenger - The anti-disinformation field is retreating under attack.
A few months ago, a man crawling along a rooftop in Pennsylvania tried to murder Donald Trump at a campaign rally. Hours later, press releases started to circulate, from analysts, think tanks, politicians, and pundits, all offering to cut through the swell of confusion and misinformation.
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November/December 2024
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Food + Health / Global Warning - Why Project 2025 is an environmental catastrophe in the making
When President Joe Biden took office, Democrats held a slim majority in the House of Representatives and a single-vote edge in the Senate. Despite the monumental odds, he has presided over the most productive presidential term for climate action in American history. Under Biden’s direction, the federal government took up the arduous task of incorporating climate considerations into scores of administrative operations and procedures. The epa cracked down on superpollutants and issued stricter emissions regulations for passenger vehicles. The Inflation Reduction Act, the biggest climate spending bill Congress has ever passed, brings the nation closer to its goal of slashing carbon emissions in half by 2030.
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