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Underexposed
From lockdown to the uprising, “TrapLanta” was there, forcing viewers to look with new eyes on a world they thought they knew.
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September/October 2020
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Stay to Play
Trump cronies, lobbyists, and special interests have boosted the president’s DC hotel. This November, the election isn’t the only thing on the line.
10+ min |
September/October 2020
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REBEL FELL
Iconoclasm will rise again
3 min |
September/October 2020
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The Prince of PPE
Jared Kushner had one job: Solve America’s supply crisis. He helped private companies instead.
9 min |
July/August 2020
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Failed State
How the president’s denial of reality made a dangerous virus even more deadly
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July/August 2020
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COVID Donald Trump's Pro Killer Corruption Quo
THE FUNDAMENTAL PURPOSE of government is rather simple: protect the citizenry. Any deliberate perversion of this priority is an exercise of corruption—especially when that basic aim is supplanted by the goal of personal gain. That’s why Donald Trump’s slow, ineffectual, self-serving, and deadly response to the coronavirus has been the most consequential act of corruption in the history of American governance. It eclipses Watergate, Teapot Dome, Iran-Contra, you name it. It also happens to be the continuation—perhaps the culmination—of the corruption that Trump started spreading like a virus the moment he tramped into the White House.
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July/August 2020
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Going Postal
The pandemic gives the gop a whole new way to squash the vote.
10+ min |
July/August 2020
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Debt Collector
Donald Trump has nearly $500 million in loans coming due. They may be his biggest conflict of interest yet.
6 min |
July/August 2020
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Death and Taxes
The Trump tax cut failed to deliver for all but the very rich. And the gop thinks this is the perfect time for more.
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July/August 2020
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Cruise Control
Worker exploitation. Illegal dumping. Cover-ups. Tax dodging. How the Trumpiest industry on Earth stays afloat.
10+ min |
July/August 2020
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Carried Interest
The plastic industry has a brand new bag, thanks to the coronavirus.
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July/August 2020
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“Workers are being sacrified''
As coronavirus cases mounted, a giant meatpacker kept workers on crowded factory floors.
10+ min |
July/August 2020
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Field of Dreams
An ambitious startup wants to pay farmers to store carbon. Is this the answer to climate change or just an illusion?
10+ min |
May/June 2020
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Purged
In November, many swing state voters won’t get to cast a ballot. That’s by design.
10+ min |
May/June 2020
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Plan Bee
It’s time for the lawn to start kicking grass
3 min |
May/June 2020
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Bitter Pill
We need covid-19 treatments asap—but a perverse incentive could slow pharma breakthroughs.
5 min |
July/August 2020
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Clickservative
Is Brad Parscale, the president’s 2020 campaign manager, a digital savant or just another opportunist cleaning up on trump?
10+ min |
May/June 2020
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The Toughest Love
For nearly 50 years, the Delancey Street Foundation has offered an alternative to prison. But does the celebrated program really work?
10+ min |
May/June 2020
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The Lady Killers
Why are so many women seeking escape through true crime podcasts?
10 min |
May/June 2020
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“You Can Tell Me Anything”
Are robots the key to getting kids to open up?
4 min |
May/June 2020
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We Are Huron
How a town in the heart of Trump country became a haven for refugees
10+ min |
May/June 2020
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Disorder in The Court – Point of No Return
Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy has created unimaginable chaos. I went to an immigration court to see it up close.
7 min |
May/June 2020
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Of Two Minds
By insisting that boys' and girls' brains are wired differently, proponents of single-sex education are selling all kids short.
10+ min |
March/April 2020
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Wiped Out
The hunt for a missing bacterium that might cure our modern ailments
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March/April 2020
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She Said He Sued
As MeToo spreads, more men are suing their accusers.
10+ min |
March/April 2020
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Call of Duty
Meet the streamer who fights the online right while speaking the language of gamergate.
10+ min |
March/April 2020
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'The Black Hills are Not for Sale'
The Lakota are fighting to protect their most sacred sites from mining—again.
10+ min |
March/April 2020
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The Man Who Would Beat King
Can a Big Ag–bashing minor league baseball player take down Congress’ most ardent white nationalist? Not if Republicans get him first.
8 min |
March/April 2020
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THE MUCKRAKERS
How a bunch of gutsy Ukrainian journalists helped light the fuse that led to Trump’s impeachment
6 min |
March/April 2020
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SOUTHERN STRATEGY
Jaime Harrison is running to unseat Lindsey Graham. Does he have the blueprint to flip the Senate?
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