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Food For Thought: Stirring The Pot
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Food For Thought: Stirring The Pot

The forgotten Chinese chef who transformed the way America cooks

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January/February 2022
Double Standard Bearers - Supremacy and Sedition
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Double Standard Bearers - Supremacy and Sedition

There’s a reason the Capitol rioters have dodged the charge: race.

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January/February 2022
The Purity Trap
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The Purity Trap

These women went to Bible college to deepen their faith. Then they were assaulted— and blamed for it.

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January/February 2022
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The Big Quit

How workers got fed up and bosses got scared

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January/February 2022
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Drinking Problem: Well Wishes

How thirsty cash crops could uproot vulnerable Californians

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January/February 2022
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Better Call Ken

The Texas Attorney General provided a radical legal pretext to overturn the election. Now he’s using the same tactics to gut Roe v. Wade.

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January/February 2022
Sweet And Lowdown
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Sweet And Lowdown

The hidden suffering behind America’s sugar habit

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November/December 2021
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Suck It Up

Is pulling CO2 out of the sky our climate salvation-or just another Big Oil boondoggle?

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November/December 2021
Mainstreaming Militias
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Mainstreaming Militias

In Virginia, right-wingers who face down anti-racist demonstrators with AR-15s have earned an official stamp of approval.

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November/December 2021
The Right Medicine
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The Right Medicine

When covid treatments are politicized, science loses.

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November/December 2021
Up Rooted
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Up Rooted

Forests have always migrated to survive. But now they need our help to outrun climate catastrophe.

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November/December 2021
Healing Requires Truth
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Healing Requires Truth

A modern civil rights project seeks to reexamine hundreds of Jim Crow–era murders, and help families move forward.

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November/December 2021
Geography Class
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Geography Class

Photographer Matt Black’s epic work of “critical cartography”

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November/December 2021
Distant Learning
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Distant Learning

New immigrant students had the most to gain at Virginia’s Justice High—and the most to lose once the pandemic hit.

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November/December 2021
Field of Trees
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Field of Trees

The case for bringing foliage back to the Corn Belt

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November/December 2021
Who You Gonna Call?
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Who You Gonna Call?

After Oakland cops drew guns on an accident survivor, a new kind of emergency responder rushed to the scene.

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November/December 2021
Two Years and Six Months in Border Purgatory
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Two Years and Six Months in Border Purgatory

The Perlas did everything to play by the United States’ rules. Was that a huge mistake?

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September/October 2021
Mad As Hell
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Mad As Hell

What’s fueling America’s political rage?

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September/October 2021
Econundrums: Tear Down This Paywall
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Econundrums: Tear Down This Paywall

The pandemic made science more accessible than ever. Let’s keep it that way.

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September/October 2021
Food For Thought: Impossible Dream
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Food For Thought: Impossible Dream

Want people to eat less meat? Tasty soy patties probably won’t cut it.

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September/October 2021
Ammon's Army
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Ammon's Army

He built a platform that can summon 60,000 people for uprisings on demand. He’s running to become governor of Idaho. Inside Ammon Bundy’s crusade to liberate the West.

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September/October 2021
Double Dose: Gain Of Dysfunction
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Double Dose: Gain Of Dysfunction

How an alliance of crunchies and conservatives could help bring on the next pandemic

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September/October 2021
Still Fronting
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Still Fronting

How the George Floyd uprising was framed

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July/August 2021
How money talks
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How money talks

MOTHER TONGUE

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September/October 2021
NO DEPOSIT, NO RETURN
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NO DEPOSIT, NO RETURN

With a 150-year-old law under threat, public lands mining faces a reckoning.

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September/October 2021
MIXED MEDIA: PLOTTING REVENGE
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MIXED MEDIA: PLOTTING REVENGE

Vengeance narratives offer a cathartic thrill. But what version of justice are they serving?

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September/October 2021
Race for a Cure
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Race for a Cure

How Flint closed the gap between Black and white suffering under covid

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September/October 2021
Geared Up Los Deliveristas
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Geared Up Los Deliveristas

After work conditions deteriorated, New York’s immigrant bicycle couriers united to bring a revolution to the gig economy.

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July/August 2021
Kyrsten Sinema – Shape Shifter
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Kyrsten Sinema – Shape Shifter

From Green Party rabble-rouser to Senate power broker, Kyrsten Sinema’s rise is a political fairy tale—and nightmare.

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July/August 2021
Children Of Pod Mr. Troll Goes To Washington
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Children Of Pod Mr. Troll Goes To Washington

How Congress became a gop hype house

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July/August 2021