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Politics

Politics

Marianne Williamson Wants to Be Your Healer in Chief

The self-help author kicks off her presidential campaign.

Anna Peele The Washington Post Magazine Feb 2019 20min Permalink

Politics

“The Best Kind of People”: Shifting Definitions of Citizenship and the Making of Arizona

For a century, Anglos from cold corners of the country have been lured here by the promise that this was a place where they could live among their own, in communities with nary a brown person in sight.

Fernanda Santos Guernica Feb 2019 20min Permalink

Crime Politics

The Myth of White Genocide

An unfinished civil war inspires a global delusion.

James Pogue Harper's Feb 2019 30min Permalink

Politics

Devastated by One Shutdown, Dreading the Next

As Friday’s deadline approaches, a federal employee wonders: “How am I supposed to dig out?”

Eli Saslow Washington Post Feb 2019 20min Permalink

Politics World

Private Mossad for Hire

Inside a plot to influence American elections, starting with one small-town race.

Adam Entous, Ronan Farrow New Yorker Feb 2019 35min Permalink

Politics

The Deported Americans

More than 600,000 U.S.-born children of undocumented parents live in Mexico. What happens when you return to a country you’ve never known?

Brooke Jarvis California Sunday Jan 2019 15min Permalink

Best Article Politics World

The Unbelievable Story Of The Plot Against George Soros

How two Jewish American political consultants helped create the world’s largest anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.

Hannes Grassegger Buzzfeed, Das Magazin Jan 2019 20min Permalink

History Politics

The Secrets of Lyndon Johnson’s Archives

On a Presidential paper trail.

Robert A. Caro New Yorker Jan 2019 50min Permalink

Business Politics

Two Towns Forged an Unlikely Bond. Now, ICE Is Severing the Connection

For years, rural Guatemalans traveled thousands of miles for jobs in Mount Pleasant, Iowa. A series of immigration raids is creating havoc in a town desperate for workers.

Monte Reel Bloomberg Businessweek Dec 2018 30min Permalink

Politics

The Champion Barack Obama

How Black America talks to the White House.

Ta-Nehisi Coates The Atlantic Jan 2014 10min Permalink

Business Politics Science

The Infiltrator

How an undercover oil industry mercenary tricked pipeline opponents into believing he was one of them.

Alleen Brown The Intercept Dec 2018 30min Permalink

History Politics

The Real Roots of American Rage

The untold story of how anger became the dominant emotion in our politics and personal lives—and what we can do about it.

Charles Duhigg The Atlantic Jan 2019 50min Permalink

Politics

The Philosopher Redefining Equality

Elizabeth Anderson thinks we’ve misunderstood the basis of a free and fair society.

Nathan Heller New Yorker Jan 2019 35min Permalink

Best Article Politics

He Drew His School Mascot—and ICE Labeled Him a Gang Member

Alex drew his school’s mascot during class.Then he was suspended, arrested and deported. How high schools have embraced the Trump administration’s crackdown on MS-13 and destroyed immigrant students’ American dreams.

Hannah Dreier ProPublica Dec 2018 45min Permalink

Politics Religion

The Darkness at the Heart of Malheur

On the conspiracy-theorist occupiers at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge and how they’re fighting against their own best interests.

Hal Herring High Country News Mar 2016 20min Permalink

Politics Movies & TV

How Mark Burnett Resurrected Donald Trump as an Icon of American Success

With “The Apprentice,” the TV producer mythologized Trump—then a floundering D-lister—as the ultimate titan, paving his way to the Presidency.

Patrick Radden Keefe New Yorker Dec 2018 50min Permalink

Best Article Politics Media

The Fresno Bee and the War on Local News

The author spends time with the reporters fighting to keep news alive in an age when the forces they cover are working equally hard to destroy them.

Zach Baron GQ Dec 2018 25min Permalink

Crime Politics

After Newtown Shooting, Mourning Parents Enter Into the Lonely Quiet

What happened next for the Barden family.

Eli Saslow Washington Post Jun 2013 25min Permalink

Politics

Children of Ted

Two decades after his last deadly act of ecoterrorism, the Unabomber has become an unlikely prophet to a new generation of acolytes.

John H. Richardson New York Dec 2018 40min Permalink

Politics

How the IRS Was Gutted

An eight-year campaign to slash the agency’s budget has left it understaffed, hamstrung and operating with archaic equipment. The result: billions less to fund the government. That’s good news for corporations and the wealthy.

Paul Kiel, Jesse Eisinger ProPublica Dec 2018 25min Permalink

Politics

Swamp Thing

The rise of Mike Pence’s chief of staff Nick Ayers and what it reveals about post-Citizens United politics.

Vicky Ward Huffington Post Highline Mar 2018 20min Permalink

Politics

George Bush, 41st President, Dies at 94

An obituary.

Adam Nagourney New York Times Nov 2018 45min Permalink

Crime Politics

The Unsatisfying Truth About Hateful Online Rhetoric and Violence

Two angry men submerged themselves in the far-right internet. One committed murder. The other walked away. Why?

Joseph Bernstein Buzzfeed Nov 2018 15min Permalink

Politics Media

"Nothing on This Page Is Real"

How lies become truth in online America.

Eli Saslow Washington Post Nov 2018 15min Permalink

Politics

Don’t Call Tom Steyer a Mega-Donor

A profile of the billionaire influencer.

Katie Baker The Ringer Nov 2018 35min Permalink

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