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Politics

Crime Politics

Inside Trump and Barr’s Last-Minute Killing Spree

Private executioners paid in cash. Middle-of-the-night killings. False or incomplete justifications.

Isaac Arnsdorf ProPublica Dec 2020 20min Permalink

Politics

The Full(est Possible) Story of the Four Seasons Total Landscaping Press Conference

The circus is gone. The presidency is ending. The mystery endures.

Olivia Nuzzi New York Dec 2020 20min Permalink

Politics

What’s the Matter With Cultural Politics?

It’s not just the economy, stupid.

Tommy Craggs Mother Jones Dec 2020 20min Permalink

Politics

The Inside Story of Michigan’s Fake Voter Fraud Scandal

How a state that was never in doubt became a “national embarrassment.”

Tim Alberta Politico Nov 2020 30min Permalink

Politics Health

How One of the Reddest States Became the Nation’s Hottest Weed Market

Welcome to Toke-la-homa.

Paul Demko Politico Nov 2020 Permalink

Politics Tech World

The Scammer Who Wanted to Save His Country

Last year, a hacker gave Glenn Greenwald a trove of damning messages between Brazil’s leaders. Some suspected the Russians. The truth was far less boring.

Darren Loucaides Wired Nov 2020 40min Permalink

Business Politics

On Behalf of the Plutocrats

Kathy Wylde’s winding path from community organizer to “lone defender of the billionaires.”

David Freedlander Curbed Nov 2020 30min Permalink

Politics Media

Matt Drudge Logs Off

The mystery behind who currently operates The Drudge Report.

Armin Rosen Tablet Nov 2020 Permalink

Politics

The Fight to Win Latino Voters for the G.O.P.

For 10 years, Libre—an arm of the Koch family’s Americans for Prosperity—has been working to foster conservatism in Hispanic communities. Now, the group is going all-in on Georgia’s Senate runoffs.

Marcela Valdes New York Times Magazine Nov 2020 20min Permalink

Crime Politics

Will Trump Burn the Evidence?

How the President could endanger the official records of one of the most consequential periods in American history.

Jill Lepore New Yorker Nov 2020 25min Permalink

Politics

How Trump’s Erratic Behavior and Failure on Coronavirus Doomed His Reelection

An early history of the 2020 presidential campaign.

Ashley Parker, Josh Dawsey, Matt Viser, Michael Scherer Washington Post Nov 2020 40min Permalink

Politics World

Sanctuary Unmasked: The First Time Los Angeles (Sort of) Became a City of Refuge

On Los Angeles’s 1985 declaration of “sanctuary status.”

Paul A. Kramer Los Angeles Review of Books Oct 2020 30min Permalink

Best Article History Politics

The Unpolitical Animal

How political science understands voters.

Lous Menand New Yorker Aug 2004 Permalink

Crime Politics

Why Trump Can’t Afford to Lose

On the legal quagmire facing the President if Joe Biden wins.

Jane Mayer New Yorker Nov 2020 25min Permalink

Politics

AOC's Next Four Years

A profile of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Michelle Ruiz Vanity Fair Oct 2020 25min Permalink

Politics Science Health

Data Disappeared

Data is the lifeblood of a functioning government. Over the past four years, the Trump administration has destroyed, disappeared, or distorted vast swaths of the information the state needs to protect the vulnerable, safeguard our health, and alert us to emerging crises.

Samanth Subramanian Huffington Post Highline Oct 2020 50min Permalink

Politics

Wide Awake

On the birth of a progressive protest movement under President Trump.

Rebecca Traister New York Oct 2020 30min Permalink

Politics

How to Rig an Election

The perils of voting in the modern age.

Victoria Collier Harper's Nov 2012 15min Permalink

Best Article Politics

In the Streets with Antifa

Trump is vowing to designate the movement as a terrorist organization. But its supporters believe that they are protecting their communities—and that confronting fascists with violence can be justified.

Luke Mogelson New Yorker Oct 2020 40min Permalink

Crime Politics

Kamala Harris, Mass Incarceration, and Me

A former inmate on justice, violence, and jail time.

Reginald Dwayne Betts New York Times Magazine Oct 2020 20min Permalink

Politics

The 31-Day Campaign Against QAnon

In Georgia, what happened when a ‘nice guy’ named Kevin Van Ausdal ran for Congress against a candidate known for her support of extremist conspiracy theories.

Stephanie McCrummen Washington Post Oct 2020 20min Permalink

Politics Health

Inside the Fall of the CDC

How the world’s greatest public health organization was brought to its knees by a virus, the president and the capitulation of its own leaders, causing damage that could last much longer than the coronavirus.

James Bandler, Patricia Callahan, Sebastian Rotella, Kirsten Berg ProPublica Oct 2020 50min Permalink

Politics

Enabler in Chief

The attorney general exemplifies the growing influence of right-wing Catholicism under Trump.

Fintan O'Toole NY Review of Books Oct 2020 20min Permalink

Business Politics

Robert Lighthizer Blew Up 60 Years of Trade Policy. Nobody Knows What Happens Next.

Trump’s trade representative joined the administration with one mission: Bring factory jobs back from overseas. The results so far? Endless trade wars, alienated allies, and a manufacturing recession.

Lydia DePillis ProPublica Oct 2020 25min Permalink

Politics

Chase Strangio’s Victories for Transgender Rights

The ACLU attorney works as a representative in every sense of the word.

Masha Gessen New Yorker Oct 2020 25min Permalink

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