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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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What does your favorite news site know about you?

Friday, February 11, 2022

Major news outlets are lobbying the federal government against a ban on privacy-invading ads. Ever been served an online advertisement that seemed to know you a little too well? You've experienced

What If the U.S. Hadn’t Gone to War After 9/11?

Thursday, February 10, 2022

New research offers an alternative to the war on terror as the Biden administration rethinks its counterterrorism playbook. MOST READ NRA Silent as Amir Locke Slain by Police for Having a Gun He

Legal bills piling up

Tuesday, February 8, 2022

Pipeline opponents were attacked with dogs, tear gas, rubber bullets, water cannons, and concussion grenades. Did you see this message about our legal battle for public records on the Dakota Access

Rep. Pramila Jayapal Forced Vote on Biden’s Strangling of Afghan Economy

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By seizing $9.4 billion of the Afghan central bank's own reserves, the White House has welcomed death and destruction. MOST READ After Historic Strike, Massachusetts Nurses Face Fight to Remove

Who killed voting rights? (Hint: It wasn’t just Manchin and Sinema)

Friday, February 4, 2022

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