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OUTGUNNED

Kevin McCarthy holds the gavel. Insurrectionists will run the House.

Jervis Middleton – Black and Blue

Torn between community and badge, Officer Jervis Middleton had to make a choice. It didn’t go well.

A Watershed Moment

Rain gardens can help cities adjust to a changing climate.

Stranger Dangers

How one website has become a magnet for kids and sexual predators, and what it might mean for the future of tech.

The Dirty Secrets of Elite College Admissions

The Supreme Court is set to kill affirmative action. Just not for rich white kids.

Номе Front

Months after they fled, ukrainians return home, seeking normalcy-or at least closure. Instead they find rubble and dust.

POWER LUNCH

Why universal free school meals matter

The charged language of policing

AMERICAN POLICE speak in a peculiar lexicon. When an officer guns somebody down, it is an \"officer-involved shooting.\" When a department spokesperson speaks of \"the use of force,\" police violence is reduced to basic physics.

THE ROE EFFECT

Abortion played a decisive role in November. Now the battle moves to the courts.

FALSE FLAGS: WHAT LIES BENEATH

Let us not lose sight of the January 6 insurrectionists’ real motivation.

REVENGE OF THE NORMS - THE GREAT REPRIEVE

Democracy was on the ballot. It won the chance to stay there.

RULES FOR RADICALS MAGA MAYHEM

The ongoing threat to American democracy will come from an unrepentant House.

ONE MORE TIME FOR THE PUNDITS IN THE BACK

Are media commentators really so clueless about the media?

FREE THE PILL

The FDA is poised to approve the first over-the-counter birth control. What took so long?

SLIM PICKINGS

Netflix's reality show Love Is Blind promised to ignore looks, but then platformed thin white people anyway.

HOW TO SAVE A LIFE

Harm reduction is demonized by conservative media and attacked by lawmakers. This is what it actually looks like.

Surveillance State

From abortion to schools, the GOP is turning Ben SPIK everyday citizens into culture war snitches.

Live Laugh Lay Waste

Moms for Liberty is upending schools and radicalizing parents and it could decide the midterms.

POWER BALL

How oligarchs, private equity, and petrostates took over soccer

THE LONGEST WAR

Will Black World War II veterans finally get their due?

CAPITOL EXPRESS

Gov. Greg Abbott bused thousands of migrants from Texas to DC. Here's what became of them.

TRIGGER MAN

Republican politicians have embraced Donald Trump's incitement to violence

SOMETHING NEW UNDER THE SUN

The case for combining farming and solar energy

Masters and Commander

Right-wing tech giant Peter Thiel has poured millions into the Senate campaign of protégé Blake Masters. Their goal? Disrupting democracy.

The Kids Are Online

Virtual pre-K is here to stay, whether it works for children or not.

Τhe Censor

Before Donald Trump and "Don't Say Gay," there were Woodrow Wilson and Albert Sidney Burleson.

A Dangerous Mind

Yale psychiatrist Bandy Lee was thrown under the bus for sounding the alarm about Donald Trump. Turns out she was right.

Black or Bot?

As trolls and foreign agents co-opt Blackness for political gain, it's becoming harder and harder to identify truth online.

INSULT TO INJURY

Inside the Kafkaesque process for determining who gets federal disability benefits

THE RACE CARD

The Supreme Court's radical wing is happy to embrace social justice arguments that serve a pro-gun, anti-abortion agenda.