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The Churn
Adam Aurand spent nearly a decade of his life stuck in a loop: emergency rooms, psychiatric hospitals, jails, prison, and the streets in and around S…
1 year, 5 months ago
She Launched “The Daily Show.” Now She’s Fighting Red State Abortion Bans.
The Daily Show co-creator Lizz Winstead’s path to advocacy was a curvy one. She started out as a comedian, first as a stand-up and then working on Th…
1 year, 5 months ago
The Strike That Broke a Supermax Prison
At 18, Jack Morris was convicted of murdering a man in South Los Angeles and sent to prison for life. It was 1979, and America was entering the era o…
1 year, 5 months ago
Exclusive: Trump Fired This Top Watchdog. Now He’s Speaking Out.
Fraud, waste, and abuse: That’s what inspectors general are tasked with investigating throughout the federal government. But in his first week in off…
1 year, 5 months ago
The Deputies Who Tortured a Mississippi County
When Andrea Dettore-Murphy first moved to Rankin County, Mississippi, she didn’t believe the stories she heard about how brutal the sheriff’s departm…
1 year, 5 months ago
Bird Flu, Measles, and Trump’s Ticking Time Bomb
This month marks the five-year anniversary of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has killed 1.2 million people in the US alone. While life has returned to …
1 year, 5 months ago
The Plague in the Shadows
Decades before Covid-19, the AIDS epidemic tore through communities in the US and around the world. It has killed some 40 million people and continue…
1 year, 5 months ago
Trump’s Mass Deportations Are Decades in the Making
This past weekend marked a major escalation in the Trump administration's mass deportation efforts, with the dramatic detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a …
1 year, 5 months ago
An Atrocity of War Goes Unpunished
In November 2005, a group of US Marines killed 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq. The case against them became one of the most high-profile war crimes pr…
1 year, 5 months ago
How Trump’s January 6 Pardons Hijacked History
One of President Donald Trump’s first actions as president was simple and sweeping: pardoning 1,500 people convicted of offenses related to the Janua…
1 year, 6 months ago