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A Baby Adopted, A Family Divided
In 2017, David Leavitt drove to the Northern Cheyenne reservation in Montana to adopt a baby girl. A few years later, during an interview with a docu…
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Why Conservatives Are Trying to Kill the Voting Rights Act
More To The Story: The Voting Rights Act turned 60 years old this month. The landmark piece of legislation is considered one of the most effective la…
1 year ago
What Police Weren’t Told About Tasers
Kansas City police Officer Matt Masters first used a Taser in the early 2000s. He said it worked well for taking people down; it was safe and effecti…
1 year ago
Trump’s Homelessness Crackdown Has Been Tried Before. It Didn’t Work.
Earlier this week, President Donald Trump announced that his administration is removing homeless encampments from around Washington, DC. The announce…
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She Ate a Poppy Seed Salad. Child Services Took Her Baby.
Pregnant with her fifth child, Susan Horton had a lot of confidence in her parenting abilities. Then she ate a salad from Costco: an “everything” cho…
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Gazans Are Starving. It’s a Manmade Catastrophe.
In the last few months, widespread starvation has gripped the Gaza Strip. United Nations-backed food security experts say the “worst-case scenario of…
1 year ago
They Followed Doctors’ Orders. The State Took Their Babies.
Jade Dass was taking medication to treat her addiction to opioids before she became pregnant. Scientific studies and the Centers for Disease Control …
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The Bible Says So…or Does It?
Dan McClellan has spent much of his life learning—and relearning—what the Bible and its authors were trying to tell us. But his years in graduate sch…
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Trump’s New World (Dis)order
During his campaign for the presidency, Donald Trump talked a lot about pulling America out of international treaties and disentangling from military…
1 year, 1 month ago
Ibram X. Kendi vs. America’s “Antiracism Backlash”
Just a few years ago, historian and activist Dr. Ibram X. Kendi seemed to be everywhere. At the height of the Black Lives Matter movement, Kendi beca…
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