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Racial Justice
Examining Race and Racism in America
All Topics
- Missouri Outlawed Abortion, and Now It’s Funding an Anti-Abortion Group That Works in Other States
- Texas Sends Millions to Crisis Pregnancy Centers. It’s Meant to Help Needy Families, But No One Knows if It Works.
- Kristi Noem Said She Is Proud to “Support Babies, Moms, and Families.” Her Record Shows Otherwise, Critics Say.
Biden Administration
The 46th President and His Administration
- New Mexico AG to Investigate Gallup-McKinley School District for Harsh Discipline of Native American Students
- In Secret Recording, a Top City Library Official Calls Alaska Natives “Woke” and “Racists”
- Eugene Clemons May Be Ineligible for the Death Penalty. A Rigid Clinton-Era Law Could Force Him to Be Executed Anyway.
Courts
An Eye on the American Judicial System
Criminal Justice
Accountability in Crime and Law
- New Louisiana Law Serves as a Warning to Bystanders Who Film Police: Stay Away or Face Arrest
- New York Lawmakers Call for Police Commissioner to Be Stripped of Power to Bury Brutality Cases
- A Judge Ruled a Louisiana Prison’s Health Care System Has Failed Inmates for Decades. A Federal Law Could Block Reforms.
Debt
What Americans Owe and Why
Democracy
Inside Voting in America
- Ginni Thomas Privately Praised Group Working Against Supreme Court Reform: “Thank You So, So, So Much”
- The Accelerationists’ App: How Telegram Became the “Center of Gravity” for a New Breed of Domestic Terrorists
- Election Deniers Secretly Pushed Rule That Would Make It Easier to Delay Certification of Georgia’s Election Results
Education
Inside Our Schools
Environment
The Tension Between Humans and Nature
- Biden EPA Rejects Plastics Industry’s Fuzzy Math That Misleads Customers About Recycled Content
- When Is “Recyclable” Not Really Recyclable? When the Plastics Industry Gets to Define What the Word Means.
- As Millions of Acres Burn, Firefighters Say the U.S. Forest Service Has Left Them With Critical Shortages
Health Care
Pulling Back the Curtain on the Health Industry and Regulation
Immigration
How Policy Impacts Migrants
Labor
What Work Is Like in the U.S.
Military
Accountability for the Armed Forces
- Blinken Says Israeli Units Accused of Serious Violations Have Done Enough to Avoid Sanctions. Experts and Insiders Disagree.
- Soldiers Charged With Violent Crimes Will Now Face More Scrutiny Before They Can Simply Leave the Army
- A Federal Judge Ruled That ProPublica’s Lawsuit Over Military Court Access Should Move Forward
- New Louisiana Law Serves as a Warning to Bystanders Who Film Police: Stay Away or Face Arrest
- New York Lawmakers Call for Police Commissioner to Be Stripped of Power to Bury Brutality Cases
- The NYPD Commissioner Responded to Our Story That Revealed He’s Burying Police Brutality Cases. We Fact-Check Him.
Politics
Holding Political Actors Accountable
Regulation
The Efforts to Keep Industry in Check
Technology
How Big Tech Impacts Our Lives
Trump Administration
The 45th President and His Administration
