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Green Machine
How California NIMBYS and city councils use environmental laws to kill climate-friendly development
5 min |
May/June 2023
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Getting to YES
Learning to love the green building boom
10+ min |
May/June 2023
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GROUNDS FOR RECONSIDERATION
Howard Schultz sold himself as a benevolent, modern boss. Then Starbucks employees pushed for a union.
6 min |
May/June 2023
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TO INSPECT AND SERVE WATCHING THE DETECTIVES
After 2020's protests, eyes turned to city budgets. Can controllers' audits change policing?
6 min |
May/June 2023
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A Whale of a Problem
Should sustainable seafood assessments care about human livelihoods?
3 min |
March/April 2023
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DOCTOR'S ORDERS
Would patients be safer if we let medical residents rest?
4 min |
March/April 2023
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LIGHTS, CAMERA, PROPAGANDA
How right-wing provocateurs like Candace Owens weaponizing documentary filmmaking
9 min |
March/April 2023
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The Abortion Pill's Secret Money Men
The untold story of the private equity investors behind Mifeprex-and their escalating legal battle to cash in post-Dobbs
10+ min |
March/April 2023
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Forever Home
A Native woman fought for years to gain custody of her granddaughter. Now the case is before the Supreme Court and could have consequences far beyond child welfare.
10+ min |
March/April 2023
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THE WEBSITE FROM HELL
> THE TROLLS > WHO HOUNDED PEOPLE TO KILL > > THEMSELVES > CREATED THE > ONLINE CULTURE > WE HAVE TODAY.
10+ min |
March/April 2023
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STREAM OF NOXIOUSNESS
How Nick Fuentes' white nationalist broadcasts summoned a new generation of GOP hate
10+ min |
March/April 2023
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THE CLOSER
Can red-state voters be persuaded to protect abortion? This organizer has done it twice.
6 min |
March/April 2023
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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 |