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What informants taught an intelligence officer
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Feral faith in the age of climate change
Is the beloved program on its last legs?
The Cuban embargo continues
Among the fans in Florida, New Hampshire, and Iowa
The quest for an email the government can’t read
How to win the war on drugs
A USDA program that tortures dogs and kills endangered species
Corn, corruption, and the presidential caucuses
Are French prisons incubating extremism?
American business meets its new master
The real face of welfare reform
The failed promise of the Affordable Care Act
Following the trail of BP’s oil in the Gulf of Mexico
William Bratton and the new police state
A father and son’s story
How elite youth basketball exploits African athletes
The human costs of workplace monitoring
Why we won’t get prison reform
Among the apocalyptic libertarians of Silicon Valley
Interviews with fighters, enemies, and potential recruits
A visit to the egg farm
Using Sophocles to treat PTSD
Are the Afghan police using torture to achieve peace?
When you can’t afford to stop working
Can Obama redeem his environmental failures?
Protest, petroleum, and Putin’s dream of a Russian Arctic
Inside the industry that’s making therapy obsolete
Will drought destroy the Southwest?
Predicting murder on Chicago’s South Side
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