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Joe Manchin’s Dirty Empire

Daniel Boguslaw

The West Virginia senator reaps big financial rewards from a network of coal companies with grim records of pollution, safety violations, and death.

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Biden’s Basic Question in a 2009 White House Meeting Exposed the Folly of the Afghanistan War

Ryan Grim

“If the government’s a criminal syndicate a year from now, how will troops make a difference?”

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Hurricane Ida Makes a Mockery of Big Oil’s Philanthropy

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During Hurricane Ida, energy companies briefly paused efforts to claim credit for combating the problems they’ve caused.

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I Reported on the War in Afghanistan. Was I Complicit in the Harm America Caused?

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Moral injury describes the inner collapse we feel, as civilians on the margins of endless war, when our leaders betray the people who helped us.

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Secretive CBP Counterterrorism Teams Interrogated 180,000 U.S. Citizens Over Two-Year Period

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Records from an ongoing FOIA lawsuit shed new light on the operations of CBP’s Tactical Terrorism Response Teams.

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Democrats Who Joined Republicans to Increase Military Budget Have Strong Defense Ties

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The lawmakers crossed party lines to add $24 billion to Biden’s fiscal year 2022 defense budget.

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What the U.S. Could Have Bought After 9/11 Instead of a “War on Terror”

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We could have had a cooler planet, universal health care, and an end to the coronavirus pandemic — if we’d chosen life over death.

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Jair Bolsonaro’s Pro-Coup Rally: September 7 Is Shaping Up to Be Brazil’s January 6

Andrew Fishman

With his reelection prospects dimming, Bolsonaro’s supporters are ramping up their version of the pro-Trump rally that led to the Capitol riot.

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My Husband Died on 9/11. I Am Still Waiting for a Trial of His Killers.

Kristen Breitweiser

We haven’t brought any 9/11 conspirators to justice, despite torture and decades of war.

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Friday, September 3, 2021

Right-wing donors pushing “the big lie” want to stay out of the spotlight. We won't let that happen. Right-wing conspiracy theories — like “the big lie” that Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential

FBI Spy Planes Monitored a Single Suspect for Nearly 429 Hours

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