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Zen and the Art of Political Espionage
How did a Gore-Tex heir and onetime Transcendental Meditation devotee end up bankrolling America's strangest right-wing spy op?
10+ min |
July/August 2022
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Flipped Off
Real estate investors had a great plan to cash in on pandemic-era Brooklyn. But tenants are fighting back.
10+ min |
May/June 2022
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GRIN AND BEAR IT
Why haven't we figured out how to make IUDs less excruciating?
4 min |
July/August 2022
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The Mother Trap
Kerry King never hurt her children. Why is she in prison for more time than the man who abused her daughter?
10+ min |
July/August 2022
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THE ANTI-ABORTION ARCHITECT
The man behind the Texas abortion ban now has an even more radical plan to reshape American law.
10+ min |
July/August 2022
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MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE
If abortion is illegal, will every pregnancy lost be a potential crime?
5 min |
July/August 2022
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Lessons Not Learned
How the Oxford school massacre could have been stopped
7 min |
May/June 2022
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Door Dashed
Can local food delivery co-ops take on the Big Tech apps?
3 min |
May/June 2022
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The Smash-and-Grab Economy
Private equity billionaires are looting the country, leaving everyday Americans to clean up the mess-and fight for the scraps.
10+ min |
May/June 2022
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Their Fight Is Our Fight
The truth is kryptonite for authoritarians and oligarchs-in Russia, and here at home.
4 min |
May/June 2022
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Dance Dance Revolution
Calvin Royal III wants to help "break ballet out of the 18th century."
10+ min |
May/June 2022
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Wild Goose Chase
Elizabeth Warren's years-long battle to rein in private equity has been a lonely one.
1 min |
May/June 2022
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Capitol Gains
Private equity's favorite tax break is one of Washington's favorite punching bags. So why can't anyone get rid of it?
10 min |
May/June 2022
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A Few Good Men
Valley Forge Military Academy bills itself as a school that breaks down young cadets and builds them back better. It succeeds at one of those things.
10+ min |
May/June 2022
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MOTHER TONGUE
How the scientific label has masked political choices
3 min |
May/June 2022
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No Quick Fix
Two national companies took over the motorized wheelchair industry. Disabled customers have been paying the price.
4 min |
May/June 2022
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Mobilizing Homes
How a group of Coloradans fought like hell to wrest their "poor people's paradise" from the grip of a PE-backed firm
4 min |
May/June 2022
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Pipe Dreams
How to cash in on federal climate tax credits...by shuttling ethanol emissions across five states.
8 min |
May/June 2022
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ONCE UPON A PLANET
Can hopeful books help kids tame their climate anxiety?
4 min |
May/June 2022
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THE COPPER RUSH
Will the green economy wreck sacred Native lands?
7 min |
May/June 2022
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TINY'S HOUSE
An Oakland crew of "poverty scholars" spins a minor revolution in the war on homelessness
6 min |
May/June 2022
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Looks Don't Kill
Plastic surgery has a troubled history inside prisons. Some advocates want it to make a comeback.
8 min |
March/April 2022
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Break the Chain
We’ve got a plastics problem. Will chemical recycling solve it?
4 min |
March/April 2022
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Rent to Own: Purchasing Power
Minneapolis weighs a law that could let renters buy their place—or pick their landlord.
7 min |
March/April 2022
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Table Straps
How the nation’s biggest restaurant lobby protected the major chains during the pandemic and left the little guys behind
10+ min |
March/April 2022
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The Coming Coup
The insurrectionists failed to topple a fair election. But Republican legislators are succeeding at seizing control of how—and if— votes are counted.
10+ min |
March/April 2022
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The Pushback
Millions of refugees are fleeing war, persecution, and the effects of the climate crisis. A new frontier of brutality awaits them.
10+ min |
March/April 2022
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The Influencer
The totally out-of-this-world tale of the fugitive chinese tycoon who has joined forces with Steve Bannon to blanket the web with far-right propaganda
10+ min |
March/April 2022
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Holy War
How Steve Bannon, Milo Yiannopoulos, and other militant right-wing activists are hellbent on transforming the Catholic Church— starting with the pope
10+ min |
March/April 2022
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Food for Thought: There Will Be Blood
Lab-grown meat still requires slaughterhouse products.
3 min |