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The Most Important Election Of Your Lives
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The Most Important Election Of Your Lives

The mid-terms will determine whether Donald Trump's two-year assault on democratic norms will be repudiated or validated. No pressure.

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November/December 2018
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Nation Building

Thirteen thousand people. Four thousand square miles. Meet the activists fighting to organize one Arizona reservation.

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November/December 2018
The Last Dinosaur
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The Last Dinosaur

Trump and the fossil fuel lobby can stall for time. But change is coming faster than you think.

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November/December 2018
How Restaurant Workers Can Stop Sexual Harassment
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How Restaurant Workers Can Stop Sexual Harassment

How restaurant workers can stop sexual harassment by customers.

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November/December 2018
Where's The Beef?
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Where's The Beef?

Livestock companies have a message for veggie burger makers: Hands off the word “meat.”

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January/February 2019
The Problem With Sexy Science
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The Problem With Sexy Science

When peer review fails, how can journalists, researchers, and lawmakers be more vigilant?

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January/February 2019
How The Reddest Of Red States Built A Preschool Program Second To None
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How The Reddest Of Red States Built A Preschool Program Second To None

How the reddest of red states built a preschool program second to none

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January/February 2019
How Washington Left Students To Drown In Debt
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How Washington Left Students To Drown In Debt

Why is the nation's flagship debt forgiveness program failing the students it's supposed to help?

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September/October 2018
Is It Time To Test Drugs On Pregnant Women?
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Is It Time To Test Drugs On Pregnant Women?

Is it time to test drugs on pregnant women?

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September/October 2018
Tapped Out
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Tapped Out

How US thirst for cerveza could worsen water shortages in Mexico

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September/October 2018
Sins Of Submission
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Sins Of Submission

Purity culture taught me to rationalize my sexual assault. #ChurchToo forced me to reckon with it.

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September/October 2018
A Growing Elder Care Crisis
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A Growing Elder Care Crisis

A growing elder care crisis is making life hell for families. Maine is considering a radical solution.

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September/October 2018
The Anti Abortion 'Rescue' Movement Born Again
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The Anti Abortion 'Rescue' Movement Born Again

A radical wing of the anti-abortion crusade has returned, emboldened by the prospect of the end of Roe v. Wade.

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September/October 2018
Old Cops, New Tricks
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Old Cops, New Tricks

An innovative police unit is pioneering a better way to investigate sexual assault on campus— and listen to survivors.

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September/October 2018
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Hidden Figures

The 2020 census will shape the future of our democracy. The Trump administration is working to make that future whiter and more conservative.

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May/June 2018
Who Moved My Teachers?
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Who Moved My Teachers?

Wisconsin’s war on unions has gutted public schools. The rest of America could be next.

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March/April 2017
It Happens Here
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It Happens Here

I underwent genital mutilation as a child in the United States. Will exposure stop the practice—or drive it further underground?

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July/August 2017
Blue Republic
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Blue Republic

Kevin de León’s California dream

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July/August 2017
Banned Together
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Banned Together

THERE WERE SIGNS OF LIFE earlier, fits of obstruction, but the moment when the Democratic Party officially awoke from its stupor and caught up to the reality of President Donald Trump came in the last weekend of January, at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and a half-dozen places like it.

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July/August 2017
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Guerrilla Gopros

Unicorn Riot’s underground video insurrection.

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July/August 2017
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Fables Of The Reconstruction

America’s post-Civil War experiment in racial equity didn’t simply end on its own—it was violently overthrown.

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July/August 2017
School Of Rock
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School Of Rock

Newbery medalist Kwame Alexander on music, race, and the power of poetry.

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July/August 2017
Run For Cover
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Run For Cover

This cool technique can save sea creatures and soil—so why aren’t more farmers using it?

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July/August 2017
Is Counting Calories The Key To Staying Fit!
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Is Counting Calories The Key To Staying Fit!

For decades, counting calories was seen as the key to staying fit. There are a few—actually a trillion—little problems with that.

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July/August 2019
Better Dead Than Red!
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Better Dead Than Red!

Why one conservative stalwart now believes we need to destroy the Republican Party

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November/December 2018
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Will Claire McCaskill Win A Tight Race In Missouril?

Will Claire McCaskill's fight against opioids help her win a tight race in Missouri this fall?

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November/December 2018
This Native American Life
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This Native American Life

BACK IN JUNE, activist Shaun King tweeted out a colleagues Intercept story to his million-plus followers: All over this country, for decades on end now, indigenous women have gone missing at an alarming rate, he wrote. Authorities are just now truly acknowledging the crisis. I remembered then to ask around the rez whether Roberta was still missing.

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November/December 2018
Local Jails Go Full
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Local Jails Go Full

Want to know how your local jail operates? Sorry, that may be a trade secret.

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March/April 2019
Get In Line. Follow The Rules. Go To Jail.
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Get In Line. Follow The Rules. Go To Jail.

A Haitian asylum-seeker’s nightmare journey shows the extreme human toll of Trump’s immigration regime.

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March/April 2019
Life After Life
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Life After Life

Thousands were locked up for crimes they committed as teens. The Supreme Court has given them a chance at freedom. Now comes the hard part.

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March/April 2019