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MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE
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MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE

If abortion is illegal, will every pregnancy lost be a potential crime?

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5 mins  |
July/August 2022
Lessons Not Learned
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Lessons Not Learned

How the Oxford school massacre could have been stopped

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7 mins  |
May/June 2022
Door Dashed
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Door Dashed

Can local food delivery co-ops take on the Big Tech apps?

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3 mins  |
May/June 2022
The Smash-and-Grab Economy
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The Smash-and-Grab Economy

Private equity billionaires are looting the country, leaving everyday Americans to clean up the mess-and fight for the scraps.

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10+ mins  |
May/June 2022
Their Fight Is Our Fight
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Their Fight Is Our Fight

The truth is kryptonite for authoritarians and oligarchs-in Russia, and here at home.

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4 mins  |
May/June 2022
Dance Dance Revolution
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Dance Dance Revolution

Calvin Royal III wants to help "break ballet out of the 18th century."

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May/June 2022
Wild Goose Chase
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Wild Goose Chase

Elizabeth Warren's years-long battle to rein in private equity has been a lonely one.

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May/June 2022
Capitol Gains
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Capitol Gains

Private equity's favorite tax break is one of Washington's favorite punching bags. So why can't anyone get rid of it?

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May/June 2022
A Few Good Men
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A Few Good Men

Valley Forge Military Academy bills itself as a school that breaks down young cadets and builds them back better. It succeeds at one of those things.

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May/June 2022
MOTHER TONGUE
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MOTHER TONGUE

How the scientific label has masked political choices

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May/June 2022
No Quick Fix
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No Quick Fix

Two national companies took over the motorized wheelchair industry. Disabled customers have been paying the price.

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May/June 2022
Mobilizing Homes
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Mobilizing Homes

How a group of Coloradans fought like hell to wrest their "poor people's paradise" from the grip of a PE-backed firm

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May/June 2022
Pipe Dreams
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Pipe Dreams

How to cash in on federal climate tax credits...by shuttling ethanol emissions across five states.

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8 mins  |
May/June 2022
ONCE UPON A PLANET
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ONCE UPON A PLANET

Can hopeful books help kids tame their climate anxiety?

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4 mins  |
May/June 2022
THE COPPER RUSH
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THE COPPER RUSH

Will the green economy wreck sacred Native lands?

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7 mins  |
May/June 2022
TINY'S HOUSE
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TINY'S HOUSE

An Oakland crew of "poverty scholars" spins a minor revolution in the war on homelessness

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6 mins  |
May/June 2022
Looks Don't Kill
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Looks Don't Kill

Plastic surgery has a troubled history inside prisons. Some advocates want it to make a comeback.

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March/April 2022
Break the Chain
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Break the Chain

We’ve got a plastics problem. Will chemical recycling solve it?

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4 mins  |
March/April 2022
Rent to Own: Purchasing Power
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Rent to Own: Purchasing Power

Minneapolis weighs a law that could let renters buy their place—or pick their landlord.

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7 mins  |
March/April 2022
Table Straps
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Table Straps

How the nation’s biggest restaurant lobby protected the major chains during the pandemic and left the little guys behind

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March/April 2022
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The Coming Coup

The insurrectionists failed to topple a fair election. But Republican legislators are succeeding at seizing control of how—and if— votes are counted.

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March/April 2022
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The Pushback

Millions of refugees are fleeing war, persecution, and the effects of the climate crisis. A new frontier of brutality awaits them.

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March/April 2022
The Influencer
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The Influencer

The totally out-of-this-world tale of the fugitive chinese tycoon who has joined forces with Steve Bannon to blanket the web with far-right propaganda

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March/April 2022
Holy War
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Holy War

How Steve Bannon, Milo Yiannopoulos, and other militant right-wing activists are hellbent on transforming the Catholic Church— starting with the pope

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March/April 2022
Food for Thought: There Will Be Blood
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Food for Thought: There Will Be Blood

Lab-grown meat still requires slaughterhouse products.

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March/April 2022
Rule the School: Boards of Control
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Rule the School: Boards of Control

Our long history of letting white Americans veto racial progress in education

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7 mins  |
March/April 2022
The Long Shot
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The Long Shot

"What if we could make a vaccine for pandemic viruses—before they exist?"

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3 mins  |
January/February 2022
The Legal War Against Mother Jones
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The Legal War Against Mother Jones

"Journalists shouldn’t hide behind a veil of false objectivity."

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4 mins  |
January/February 2022
Mixed Media Vanishing Point
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Mixed Media Vanishing Point

More than two centuries ago, a group of West Africans chose death over enslavement in the waters of coastal Georgia. Why do so few traces of their story remain there today?

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9 mins  |
January/February 2022
Had Badge, Will Travel
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Had Badge, Will Travel

An ex-sheriff slings bogus constitutional lessons at cops—with your state’s seal of approval.

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January/February 2022