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Looks Don't Kill
Plastic surgery has a troubled history inside prisons. Some advocates want it to make a comeback.
Break the Chain
We’ve got a plastics problem. Will chemical recycling solve it?
Rent to Own: Purchasing Power
Minneapolis weighs a law that could let renters buy their place—or pick their landlord.
Table Straps
How the nation’s biggest restaurant lobby protected the major chains during the pandemic and left the little guys behind
The Coming Coup
The insurrectionists failed to topple a fair election. But Republican legislators are succeeding at seizing control of how—and if— votes are counted.
The Pushback
Millions of refugees are fleeing war, persecution, and the effects of the climate crisis. A new frontier of brutality awaits them.
The Influencer
The totally out-of-this-world tale of the fugitive chinese tycoon who has joined forces with Steve Bannon to blanket the web with far-right propaganda
Holy War
How Steve Bannon, Milo Yiannopoulos, and other militant right-wing activists are hellbent on transforming the Catholic Church— starting with the pope
Food for Thought: There Will Be Blood
Lab-grown meat still requires slaughterhouse products.
Rule the School: Boards of Control
Our long history of letting white Americans veto racial progress in education
The Long Shot
"What if we could make a vaccine for pandemic viruses—before they exist?"
The Legal War Against Mother Jones
"Journalists shouldn’t hide behind a veil of false objectivity."
Mixed Media Vanishing Point
More than two centuries ago, a group of West Africans chose death over enslavement in the waters of coastal Georgia. Why do so few traces of their story remain there today?
Had Badge, Will Travel
An ex-sheriff slings bogus constitutional lessons at cops—with your state’s seal of approval.
Food For Thought: Stirring The Pot
The forgotten Chinese chef who transformed the way America cooks
Double Standard Bearers - Supremacy and Sedition
There’s a reason the Capitol rioters have dodged the charge: race.
The Purity Trap
These women went to Bible college to deepen their faith. Then they were assaulted— and blamed for it.
The Big Quit
How workers got fed up and bosses got scared
Drinking Problem: Well Wishes
How thirsty cash crops could uproot vulnerable Californians
Better Call Ken
The Texas Attorney General provided a radical legal pretext to overturn the election. Now he’s using the same tactics to gut Roe v. Wade.
Sweet And Lowdown
The hidden suffering behind America’s sugar habit
Suck It Up
Is pulling CO2 out of the sky our climate salvation-or just another Big Oil boondoggle?
Mainstreaming Militias
In Virginia, right-wingers who face down anti-racist demonstrators with AR-15s have earned an official stamp of approval.
The Right Medicine
When covid treatments are politicized, science loses.
Up Rooted
Forests have always migrated to survive. But now they need our help to outrun climate catastrophe.
Healing Requires Truth
A modern civil rights project seeks to reexamine hundreds of Jim Crow–era murders, and help families move forward.
Geography Class
Photographer Matt Black’s epic work of “critical cartography”
Distant Learning
New immigrant students had the most to gain at Virginia’s Justice High—and the most to lose once the pandemic hit.
Field of Trees
The case for bringing foliage back to the Corn Belt
Who You Gonna Call?
After Oakland cops drew guns on an accident survivor, a new kind of emergency responder rushed to the scene.