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Healing Requires Truth
Mother Jones

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
Jonathan Franzen Finally Stopped Trying Too Hard
The Atlantic

Jonathan Franzen Finally Stopped Trying Too Hard

At last he put aside the pyrotechnics and went all in on his great theme: the American family.

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November 2021
RESPONSIBLE GUN OWNERSHIP IS A LIE
The Atlantic

RESPONSIBLE GUN OWNERSHIP IS A LIE

How to convince Americans that firearms won’t make them safer

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October 2021
The Quiet Moments
The Atlantic

The Quiet Moments

In 2009 and 2010, while on assignment in Afghanistan’s Helmand, Kunar, and Wardak provinces, the photographer Adam Ferguson took a break from his journalistic work documenting the war to create portraits of American service members.

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October 2021
PLAN Z FOR IMMIGRATION
The Atlantic

PLAN Z FOR IMMIGRATION

“A moral failing and a national shame.”

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October 2021
Peter Thiel Hates a Copycat
The Atlantic

Peter Thiel Hates a Copycat

The billionaire’s extreme contrarianism is the secret to his success.

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October 2021
Stealthily Wielding Caesar's Sword
Reason magazine

Stealthily Wielding Caesar's Sword

Sohrab Ahmari’s case for tradition conceals an authoritarian agenda.

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October 2021
LET'S PLAY HORSESHOE THEORY
Reason magazine

LET'S PLAY HORSESHOE THEORY

FUTURE

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October 2021
LEAVING AFGHANISTAN
Reason magazine

LEAVING AFGHANISTAN

WORLD

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October 2021
SELF-CANCELLATION, DE-PLATFORMING, AND CENSORSHIP
Reason magazine

SELF-CANCELLATION, DE-PLATFORMING, AND CENSORSHIP

A TAXONOMY OF CANCEL CULTURE

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October 2021
How money talks
Mother Jones

How money talks

MOTHER TONGUE

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September/October 2021
NO DEPOSIT, NO RETURN
Mother Jones

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
Mother Jones

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
Mother Jones

Race for a Cure

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

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September/October 2021
Two Years and Six Months in Border Purgatory
Mother Jones

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
Sally Rooney Addresses Her Critics
The Atlantic

Sally Rooney Addresses Her Critics

The Irish writer has been accused of being overly sentimental and insufficiently political. In her new novel, she makes the case for her approach to fiction.

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September 2021
The Heroine's Journey
The Atlantic

The Heroine's Journey

In Joseph Campbell’s classic study of world myths, women were in the background. A new book puts them at the center of the story.

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September 2021
Twenty Years Gone
The Atlantic

Twenty Years Gone

One family’s struggle to make sense of 9/11

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September 2021
Why Millennials Are So Obsessed With Dogs
The Atlantic

Why Millennials Are So Obsessed With Dogs

The only thing getting me through my 30s is a cranky, agoraphobic chihuahua named Midge.

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September 2021
Why Didn't COVID-19 Kill the Constitution?
Reason magazine

Why Didn't COVID-19 Kill the Constitution?

WE CAN THANK JUDGES WHO WERE PREPARED TO ENFORCE CONSTITUTIONAL LIMITS ON PUBLIC HEALTH POWERS.

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August - September 2021
Jane Coaston – Meet The New York Times' Libertarian Podcaster
Reason magazine

Jane Coaston – Meet The New York Times' Libertarian Podcaster

Jane Coaston on the polarization of everything

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August - September 2021
Why Is It So Hard To Sue A Bad Cop?
Reason magazine

Why Is It So Hard To Sue A Bad Cop?

“Redress for a federal officer’s unconstitutional acts is either extremely limited or wholly nonexistent.”

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August - September 2021
Post Apocalypse
Reason magazine

Post Apocalypse

Neither rain nor sleet nor snow will stop the U.S. Postal Service. But a pandemic on top of a political fiasco? That’s a first-class problem.

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August - September 2021
 FACING DOWN JIM CROW. AGAIN.
Mother Jones

FACING DOWN JIM CROW. AGAIN.

ANOTHER GENERATION OF BLACK LAWMAKERS IS BATTLING A FAMILIAR ENEMY.

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July/August 2021
A Ride, Not A Privilege
Mother Jones

A Ride, Not A Privilege

The essential workers’ case for funding public transit

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July/August 2021
Gaslit
Mother Jones

Gaslit

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

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July/August 2021
Caution To The Wind
Mother Jones

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?

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

Children Of Pod Mr. Troll Goes To Washington

How Congress became a gop hype house

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July/August 2021
PULLING COUNT
The Atlantic

PULLING COUNT

MY SIX MONTHS ON THE LINE IN A DODGE CITY MEATPACKING PLANT

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July - August 2021
Infomercial for America
The Atlantic

Infomercial for America

The timeless appeal of Top Gun

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July - August 2021