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COVID Donald Trump's Pro Killer Corruption Quo

THE FUNDAMENTAL PURPOSE of government is rather simple: protect the citizenry. Any deliberate perversion of this priority is an exercise of corruption—especially when that basic aim is supplanted by the goal of personal gain. That’s why Donald Trump’s slow, ineffectual, self-serving, and deadly response to the coronavirus has been the most consequential act of corruption in the history of American governance. It eclipses Watergate, Teapot Dome, Iran-Contra, you name it. It also happens to be the continuation—perhaps the culmination—of the corruption that Trump started spreading like a virus the moment he tramped into the White House.

Going Postal

The pandemic gives the gop a whole new way to squash the vote.

Debt Collector

Donald Trump has nearly $500 million in loans coming due. They may be his biggest conflict of interest yet.

Death and Taxes

The Trump tax cut failed to deliver for all but the very rich. And the gop thinks this is the perfect time for more.

Cruise Control

Worker exploitation. Illegal dumping. Cover-ups. Tax dodging. How the Trumpiest industry on Earth stays afloat.

Carried Interest

The plastic industry has a brand new bag, thanks to the coronavirus.

“Workers are being sacrified''

As coronavirus cases mounted, a giant meatpacker kept workers on crowded factory floors.

Field of Dreams

An ambitious startup wants to pay farmers to store carbon. Is this the answer to climate change or just an illusion?

Purged

In November, many swing state voters won’t get to cast a ballot. That’s by design.

Plan Bee

It’s time for the lawn to start kicking grass

Bitter Pill

We need covid-19 treatments asap—but a perverse incentive could slow pharma breakthroughs.

Clickservative

Is Brad Parscale, the president’s 2020 campaign manager, a digital savant or just another opportunist cleaning up on trump?

The Toughest Love

For nearly 50 years, the Delancey Street Foundation has offered an alternative to prison. But does the celebrated program really work?

The Lady Killers

Why are so many women seeking escape through true crime podcasts?

“You Can Tell Me Anything”

Are robots the key to getting kids to open up?

We Are Huron

How a town in the heart of Trump country became a haven for refugees

Disorder in The Court – Point of No Return

Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy has created unimaginable chaos. I went to an immigration court to see it up close.

Of Two Minds

By insisting that boys' and girls' brains are wired differently, proponents of single-sex education are selling all kids short.

Wiped Out

The hunt for a missing bacterium that might cure our modern ailments

She Said He Sued

As MeToo spreads, more men are suing their accusers.

Call of Duty

Meet the streamer who fights the online right while speaking the language of gamergate.

'The Black Hills are Not for Sale'

The Lakota are fighting to protect their most sacred sites from mining—again.

The Man Who Would Beat King

Can a Big Ag–bashing minor league baseball player take down Congress’ most ardent white nationalist? Not if Republicans get him first.

THE MUCKRAKERS

How a bunch of gutsy Ukrainian journalists helped light the fuse that led to Trump’s impeachment

SOUTHERN STRATEGY

Jaime Harrison is running to unseat Lindsey Graham. Does he have the blueprint to flip the Senate?

GHOST STORIES

Hooking up while trans at the latest frontier of misogyny

FIELD OF SCHEMES

Are foreign fraudsters undermining American organic meat?

The Young and The Relentless

The climate crisis generation is sick of waiting

MAKE AMERICA GRAZE AGAIN: THE LAST ROUNDUP

Will small farmers’ beef with Trump sway the 2020 election?

Count Me Out

Letting states decide who gets representation is the new front in the Republican War on Voting Rights.