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With floodwaters rising, prisoners wait for help in floating feces.

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With Floodwaters Rising, Prisoners Wait for Help in Floating Feces

Alleen Brown

As the climate crisis fuels bigger storms, deteriorating prisons are making flood risks worse.

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In Sweltering Texas, Prisons Without Air Conditioning Are About to Get a Lot Hotter

Alleen Brown

The climate crisis is raising temperatures in detention facilities across the country. Nobody is ready for it.

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As Wildfires Threaten More Prisons, the Incarcerated Ask Who Will Save Their Lives

Alleen Brown

With larger and more intense fires wreaking havoc, incarcerated people and their loved ones are kept in the dark on evacuation plans.

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Biden’s Decision on Frozen Afghanistan Money Is Tantamount to Mass Murder

Austin Ahlman

Biden is crushing the Afghan economy by diverting $3.5 billion of its people’s money away from its central bank and seizing the other $3.5 billion.

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New Hampshire Town Polluted With PFAS Has Elevated Cancer Rates

Sharon Lerner

The level of PFOA in the blood of Merrimack residents was almost three times the 2015-2016 national average.

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Kitchen Appliance Maker Wants to Revolutionize Video Surveillance

Zach Campbell, Chris Jones

A platform run by the Bosch-owned startup Azena has the potential to transform the surveillance camera industry. Experts worry it is ripe for abuse.

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Down and Out on the Smuggler’s Road

Nick Turse

A veteran war reporter goes undercover to document a world where movement is surveilled, curtailed, and criminalized.

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Elon Musk Reveals Jaw-Dropping Ignorance About Social Security

Jon Schwarz

Musk’s blathering illustrates how the people at the top of U.S. society just repeat what are essentially billionaire urban legends.

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Ukrainian Lobbyists Mounted Unprecedented Campaign on U.S. Lawmakers in 2021

Ben Freeman

An analysis of FARA filings shows they contacted members of Congress and others over 10,000 times.

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Video: Climate and Punishment

Alleen Brown, Stuart Harmon, Travis Mannon

Meet two families struggling with the impact of heat and wildfires on the facilities where their loved ones are incarcerated.

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Gas Price Politics and Genocide Collide in Yemen

Deconstructed

Reinstating Trump’s terror designation for the Houthis could exacerbate what is already the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.

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