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THE PRISON PROFESSOR
Leo Hylton is on a mission to teach away incarceration, one Zoom at a time.
6 min |
March/April 2023
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OUTGUNNED
Kevin McCarthy holds the gavel. Insurrectionists will run the House.
7 min |
March/April 2023
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Jervis Middleton – Black and Blue
Torn between community and badge, Officer Jervis Middleton had to make a choice. It didn’t go well.
10+ min |
January/February 2023
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A Watershed Moment
Rain gardens can help cities adjust to a changing climate.
5 min |
January/February 2023
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Stranger Dangers
How one website has become a magnet for kids and sexual predators, and what it might mean for the future of tech.
10+ min |
January/February 2023
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The Dirty Secrets of Elite College Admissions
The Supreme Court is set to kill affirmative action. Just not for rich white kids.
10+ min |
January/February 2023
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Номе Front
Months after they fled, ukrainians return home, seeking normalcy-or at least closure. Instead they find rubble and dust.
3 min |
January/February 2023
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POWER LUNCH
Why universal free school meals matter
3 min |
January/February 2023
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The charged language of policing
AMERICAN POLICE speak in a peculiar lexicon. When an officer guns somebody down, it is an \"officer-involved shooting.\" When a department spokesperson speaks of \"the use of force,\" police violence is reduced to basic physics.
3 min |
January/February 2023
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THE ROE EFFECT
Abortion played a decisive role in November. Now the battle moves to the courts.
5 min |
January/February 2023
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FALSE FLAGS: WHAT LIES BENEATH
Let us not lose sight of the January 6 insurrectionists’ real motivation.
6 min |
January/February 2023
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REVENGE OF THE NORMS - THE GREAT REPRIEVE
Democracy was on the ballot. It won the chance to stay there.
6 min |
January/February 2023
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RULES FOR RADICALS MAGA MAYHEM
The ongoing threat to American democracy will come from an unrepentant House.
6 min |
January/February 2023
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ONE MORE TIME FOR THE PUNDITS IN THE BACK
Are media commentators really so clueless about the media?
3 min |
January/February 2023
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FREE THE PILL
The FDA is poised to approve the first over-the-counter birth control. What took so long?
3 min |
November/December 2022
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SLIM PICKINGS
Netflix's reality show Love Is Blind promised to ignore looks, but then platformed thin white people anyway.
10+ min |
November/December 2022
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HOW TO SAVE A LIFE
Harm reduction is demonized by conservative media and attacked by lawmakers. This is what it actually looks like.
10 min |
November/December 2022
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Surveillance State
From abortion to schools, the GOP is turning Ben SPIK everyday citizens into culture war snitches.
10+ min |
November/December 2022
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Live Laugh Lay Waste
Moms for Liberty is upending schools and radicalizing parents and it could decide the midterms.
10+ min |
November/December 2022
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POWER BALL
How oligarchs, private equity, and petrostates took over soccer
10+ min |
November/December 2022
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THE LONGEST WAR
Will Black World War II veterans finally get their due?
8 min |
November/December 2022
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CAPITOL EXPRESS
Gov. Greg Abbott bused thousands of migrants from Texas to DC. Here's what became of them.
6 min |
November/December 2022
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TRIGGER MAN
Republican politicians have embraced Donald Trump's incitement to violence
7 min |
November/December 2022
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SOMETHING NEW UNDER THE SUN
The case for combining farming and solar energy
3 min |
November/December 2022
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Masters and Commander
Right-wing tech giant Peter Thiel has poured millions into the Senate campaign of protégé Blake Masters. Their goal? Disrupting democracy.
10+ min |
September/October 2022
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The Kids Are Online
Virtual pre-K is here to stay, whether it works for children or not.
4 min |
September/October 2022
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Τhe Censor
Before Donald Trump and "Don't Say Gay," there were Woodrow Wilson and Albert Sidney Burleson.
10+ min |
September/October 2022
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A Dangerous Mind
Yale psychiatrist Bandy Lee was thrown under the bus for sounding the alarm about Donald Trump. Turns out she was right.
10+ min |
September/October 2022
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Black or Bot?
As trolls and foreign agents co-opt Blackness for political gain, it's becoming harder and harder to identify truth online.
9 min |
September/October 2022
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INSULT TO INJURY
Inside the Kafkaesque process for determining who gets federal disability benefits
6 min |