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Nick Lim provides tech support to the U.S. networks of White nationalists and conspiracy theorists banned by the likes of Amazon.
William Turton, Joshua Brustein Bloomberg Businessweek Apr 2021 10min Permalink
The Permian Basin is ground zero for a billion-dollar surge of zombie oil wells.
Clayton Aldern, Christopher Collins, and Naveena Sadasivam Grist, Texas Observer Apr 2021 25min Permalink
The jewels of America’s landscape should belong to America’s original peoples.
David Treuer The Atlantic Apr 2021 30min Permalink
Michael Savage used his position at San Francisco’s Presidio to stir up a controversy over Japanese American internment.
Dave Gilson Mother Jones Apr 2021 20min Permalink
Federal recognition provides tribes with critical healthcare and education. What happens to the tribal nations that the U.S. refuses to recognize?
Anna V. Smith High Country News Apr 2021 20min Permalink
Understanding Joe Biden by way of his favorite historian.
Kara Voght Mother Jones Apr 2021 15min Permalink
An interview with the historian Robin D.G. Kelley.
Vinson Cunningham Los Angeles Times Mar 2021 10min Permalink
A dispatch from the pandemic under Governor Kristi Noem.
Stephen Rodrick Rolling Stone Mar 2021 30min Permalink
“My entire vocation as an investigative reporter was predicated on being able to reveal truths, and yet I could not even rustle up the evidence to convince my own mother.”
Albert Samaha Buzzfeed Mar 2021 25min Permalink
Inside Andrew Cuomo’s toxic workplace.
Rebecca Traister New York Mar 2021 40min Permalink
A writer bears witness to New York’s endangered species.
Emily Raboteau Orion Mar 2021 25min Permalink
In 1963, a Black politician named Ben Lewis was shot to death in Chicago. Clues suggest the murder was a professional hit. Decades later, it remains no accident authorities never solved the crime.
Mick Dumke ProPublica Feb 2021 30min Permalink
Mike Schyck and hundreds of other Ohio State University athletes suffered sexual abuse by Dr. Richard Strauss. Schyck and many others believe then-OSU assistant wrestling coach Jim Jordan—now a congressman from Ohio—knew about it.
Scott Raab Esquire Feb 2021 30min Permalink
Sooner or later a technology capable of wiping out human civilization might be invented. How far would we go to stop it?
Nick Bostrom, Matthew van der Merwe Aeon Feb 2021 15min Permalink
A profile of the youngest Black woman in Congress.
Kayla Webley Adler Elle Feb 2021 30min Permalink
The agency, seeking information on an animal rights group, attempted to recruit a former truck driver as an informant, the truck driver says.
Lee Fang The Intercept Feb 2021 15min Permalink
Interviews with 19 current and former officers show how failures of leadership and communication put hundreds of Capitol cops at risk and allowed rioters to get dangerously close to members of Congress on January 6th, 2021.
Joaquin Sapien, Joshua Kaplan ProPublica Feb 2021 25min Permalink
The Air Force, beholden to corporate forces, is trapped in a contract with Northrop Grumman to rebuild the nuke program.
Elisabeth Eaves Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Feb 2021 35min Permalink
How Abraham Lincoln’s lifelong struggle with clinical depression was a key to his presidency.
Joshua Wolf Shenk The Atlantic Oct 2005 40min Permalink
Seth Abramson’s viral meta-journalism unreality.
Lyz Lenz Columbia Journalism Review Feb 2021 15min Permalink
Diné activist Nicole Horseherder’s long quest for equity from the rise and fall of the coal economy.
Jessica Kutz High Country News Feb 2021 15min Permalink
The rising Democratic star was found in a Miami Beach hotel with a male sex worker and suspected drugs. To keep their marriage together, he and his wife, R. Jai, had to embrace a new dynamic of “radical honesty” in their relationship.
Wesley Lowery GQ Jan 2021 Permalink
They were exhausting, impossible, stingy, and cruel, just like at their day jobs.
Moe Tkacik Slate Jan 2021 15min Permalink
Trump transformed immigration through hundreds of quiet measures. Before they can be reversed, they have to be uncovered.
Sarah Stillman New Yorker Feb 2021 30min Permalink
Texas juries send people to death row by making predictions about future violence. Racial bias has often played a troubling role. In the 1970s, one Supreme Court case paved the way.
Maurice Chammah The Marshall Project Jan 2021 20min Permalink