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Transitioning 2.0

Community support has always helped trans people become themselves. Now, Big Tech thinks it can too.

Gaslit

How the Fossil Fuel Industry convinced americans to love their toxic stoves

Who Really Gets Rich From Robinhood

The app makes millions funneling inexperienced investors to Wall Street traders. Did Alex Kearns pay with his life?

A Ride, Not A Privilege

The essential workers’ case for funding public transit

Caution To The Wind

Desperate to reopen and loaded with stimulus cash, schools are spending millions on high-tech air purifiers. But are they safe?

The “Machine That Eats Up Black Farmland”

After decades of discriminating against Black farmers and ignoring their complaints, the USDA is promising to do better. Again.

FACING DOWN JIM CROW. AGAIN.

ANOTHER GENERATION OF BLACK LAWMAKERS IS BATTLING A FAMILIAR ENEMY.

Watching The Watchers

Let’s stop freaking out over kids’ pandemic screen time

Stars and Strife

How two feuding tea party leaders helped lay the groundwork for the insurrection

The Truth About Reconciliation

Can America heal itself? The reckoning after the Greensboro Massacre provides some lessons.

Total Recall

California Republicans’ hopes are riding on the “superhero pirate” leading a mutiny against the governor.

School's Out

Why Black parents aren’t joining the rush to send their kids back to class

Biden's Muse

Can America’s problems be fixed by a president who loves Jon Meacham?

Black Land Matters

After a century of dispossession, young Black farmers are restoring their rightful place in American agriculture.

A Fair Slice

Can co-ops save restaurants?

MOVING THE NEEDLE

Inside the grassroots campaign that protected San Francisco’s Latino community—and the entire city—from a deadly virus

Or Other Crime

How Black voting rights were sabotaged by a three-word phrase in the 14th Amendment, and how they can be reconstructed

Josh Hawley – The Apprentice

Before the Capitol insurrection, Josh Hawley was seen as the future of the Republican Party. He still may be.

Tyranny of the Minority

Democrats may control Washington, but the fight for democracy is far from over.

The Nuclear Option

Biden has signaled support for a new generation of smaller nuclear reactors. Are they the path to a carbon-free economy—or just a bid to keep a troubled industry alive?

Lost In Translation

Hey Siri, why don’t digital assistants understand people who don’t sound like white Americans?

In The Tank

Ethanol’s clean promise has only led to dirtier air.

Unpopularity Contest

The case for finally doing away with the Electoral College

How Facebook Broke Us

The social network has pushed poison on users for years. Now we know it did so deliberately.

American Carnage

Trump used the White House to unleash a domestic terrorism movement. Security experts are worried what it will do next.

March to Washington

Nikema Williams isn’t as well known as Stacey Abrams, but the woman who will fill John Lewis’ seat represents a different—and formidable— kind of power.

True Stories

To beat anti-science trolls, sometimes you have to think like one.

Keeping the Faith

Raphael Warnock is braving the swamp to redeem Georgia. And America.

Lock Him Up?

Why Donald Trump could be the first president to face criminal charges

Ladies Who Launch

Trump propelled many women to join the liberal resistance. Now they’re determined to remake their communities.