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SLIM PICKINGS

Netflix's reality show Love Is Blind promised to ignore looks, but then platformed thin white people anyway.

HOW TO SAVE A LIFE

Harm reduction is demonized by conservative media and attacked by lawmakers. This is what it actually looks like.

Surveillance State

From abortion to schools, the GOP is turning Ben SPIK everyday citizens into culture war snitches.

Live Laugh Lay Waste

Moms for Liberty is upending schools and radicalizing parents and it could decide the midterms.

POWER BALL

How oligarchs, private equity, and petrostates took over soccer

THE LONGEST WAR

Will Black World War II veterans finally get their due?

CAPITOL EXPRESS

Gov. Greg Abbott bused thousands of migrants from Texas to DC. Here's what became of them.

TRIGGER MAN

Republican politicians have embraced Donald Trump's incitement to violence

SOMETHING NEW UNDER THE SUN

The case for combining farming and solar energy

Masters and Commander

Right-wing tech giant Peter Thiel has poured millions into the Senate campaign of protégé Blake Masters. Their goal? Disrupting democracy.

The Kids Are Online

Virtual pre-K is here to stay, whether it works for children or not.

Τhe Censor

Before Donald Trump and "Don't Say Gay," there were Woodrow Wilson and Albert Sidney Burleson.

A Dangerous Mind

Yale psychiatrist Bandy Lee was thrown under the bus for sounding the alarm about Donald Trump. Turns out she was right.

Black or Bot?

As trolls and foreign agents co-opt Blackness for political gain, it's becoming harder and harder to identify truth online.

INSULT TO INJURY

Inside the Kafkaesque process for determining who gets federal disability benefits

THE RACE CARD

The Supreme Court's radical wing is happy to embrace social justice arguments that serve a pro-gun, anti-abortion agenda.

DOG WHISTLE

One of the biggest cliches in politics is just warping what we hear.

IN THE EYE OF THE STORM

For 50 years, a Kansas abortion clinic has been at the center of “pro-life” attacks. Now, Trust Women is facing its biggest threat yet.

SWAG & CIRCUSES

How did MAGA extremists take over the GOP? Look no further than the right-wing conference circuit.

THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM

WE NEWS WISH PARTY HAVE UNHINGED RETURN FOR THAT SOME ΤΟ THOSE WOULD BAD WHO TODAY'S REPUBLICAN JUST NORMAL.

Florida Man: Bananas Republican

How Alfie Oakes made himself a MAGA magnate

God's Plan

Christian anti-abortion activists are gearing up to go after birth control. And they have surprising allies.

Torn Apart

I have studied child protective services for decades. It needs to be abolished.

Food for Thought: With the Grain

A simple, well-tested method for staving off world hunger

Debtors' Vision

How a group of Occupiers pushed Biden to embrace student debt relief

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?

Flipped Off

Real estate investors had a great plan to cash in on pandemic-era Brooklyn. But tenants are fighting back.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

Why haven't we figured out how to make IUDs less excruciating?

The Mother Trap

Kerry King never hurt her children. Why is she in prison for more time than the man who abused her daughter?

THE ANTI-ABORTION ARCHITECT

The man behind the Texas abortion ban now has an even more radical plan to reshape American law.