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“Everyone is tired of always staying silent''
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“Everyone is tired of always staying silent''

Amid the pandemic, farmworkers are demanding a seat at the table.

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January/February 2021
Mixed Media – The Mother Of Conspiracies
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Mixed Media – The Mother Of Conspiracies

How QAnon found a home in parenting groups

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January/February 2021
The Racist Next Time
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The Racist Next Time

Trump rode bigotry to the White House. The next Trump could too.

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January/February 2021
To Depose A President
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To Depose A President

Trump is about to lose his biggest defense gainst the women suing him for defamation.

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January/February 2021
Back From The Brink
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Back From The Brink

Trump brought the nation to the threshold of autocracy. The damage won’t be easily reversed.

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January/February 2021
RED STATE REBELLION
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RED STATE REBELLION

Can Utah—of all places—show voters how to seize power from conservative supermajorities?

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January/February 2021
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Color by Numbers

GreatSchools has become the go-to source for information on local schools. Yet its ratings could be making neighborhood segregation worse.

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November/December 2020
Break It Up
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Break It Up

The cycle of punitive justice begins in school. But a transformative movement is changing that, one hallway fight at a time.

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November/December 2020
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Raising Arizona

Latinx activists are closer than ever to flipping the state—if Democrats don’t take them for granted.

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November/December 2020
To Serve America
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To Serve America

We can tackle hunger and joblessness at the same time.

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November/December 2020
Sacrifice Play
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Sacrifice Play

How the Negro Leagues were killed

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November/December 2020
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"Our Country is Full"

America’s asylum system was already broken. Then Donald Trump turned it into a machine of unchecked cruelty.

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November/December 2020
It Can Happen Here
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It Can Happen Here

Trump knows he can’t win without trashing the Constitution. And he may just get away with it.

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November/December 2020
Basket of Disposables
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Basket of Disposables

Why is the Trump administration pushing restaurants to use more plastic?

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November/December 2020
Exile on Maine Street
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Exile on Maine Street

If Susan Collins is forced into retirement in November, you can thank Maine’s oldest voters.

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November/December 2020
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Cop Out

How Black Oaklanders finally expelled the school police

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November/December 2020
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The Social Network

The pandemic made traditional campaigning a thing of the past. And that may be for the best.

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November/December 2020
Building a Movement
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Building a Movement

Carroll Fife helped homeless moms take over an empty Oakland house. Now she’s trying to get inside a system she doesn’t trust.

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November/December 2020
Let There Be Light
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Let There Be Light

Is it a bright idea to use ultraviolet beams to kill the coronavirus?

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September/October 2020
The Shield
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The Shield

Police Unions are key to undestanding why so many violent officers escape discipline. Will this year's racial justice uprisings finally force reform?

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September/October 2020
In The Rough
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In The Rough

Donald Trump has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into his struggling Scottish golf resorts. Lawmakers in Edinburgh want to know where that cash came from.

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September/October 2020
Buy The Book
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Buy The Book

Lexipol says its policies keep police departments out of trouble. Critics say they left violent cops off the hook. Buy the book

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September/October 2020
True West
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True West

The legendary Texas Ranger have a dark history of brutality and impunity. Now, they're facing a reckoning a century in the making.

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September/October 2020
Whose Streets?
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Whose Streets?

Oakland residents convinced the city to rethink how it tackled gun violence. Now, amid calls to defund the Police other cities are eyeing it's strategy.

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September/October 2020
Cold As Ice
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Cold As Ice

Local Sheriffs Are Driving Trump's Deportation Agenda– And Terrifying Communities.

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September/October 2020
Underexposed
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Underexposed

From lockdown to the uprising, “TrapLanta” was there, forcing viewers to look with new eyes on a world they thought they knew.

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September/October 2020
Stay to Play
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Stay to Play

Trump cronies, lobbyists, and special interests have boosted the president’s DC hotel. This November, the election isn’t the only thing on the line.

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September/October 2020
REBEL FELL
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REBEL FELL

Iconoclasm will rise again

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September/October 2020
The Prince of PPE
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The Prince of PPE

Jared Kushner had one job: Solve America’s supply crisis. He helped private companies instead.

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July/August 2020
Failed State
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Failed State

How the president’s denial of reality made a dangerous virus even more deadly

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July/August 2020