As climate change dries Central Africa’s massive Lake Chad, extremists and militant governments distrupt the lives of the tribes who once made their life here.
Aaron Gilbreath
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When a Magician’s Curse Swung Boxing’s Biggest Bout
In the late-1930s, boxer Tiger Jack Fox was a force to be reckoned with, but did supernatural hocus pocus lose him an important fight?
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In Portland, You Can Steal Cars Over and Over—and Get Away With It. Here’s How.
Come for the food carts. Stay while the police search for your car.
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The New Face of Military Recruitment
The Army is working to increase the number of enlistments, and eliminate unethical recruiting practices.Â
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Lake Chad: The World’s Most Complex Humanitarian Disaster
As the massive Lake Chad started drying up in Central Africa, famine sent the native tribes scrambling to survive. Now political factions and jihadists have compounded the climate change and food shortages to throw this region where four nations meet into turmoil.
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How Some Apache People Deal with Intergenerational Trauma
In the mountains of northern Mexico, some of Geronimo’s decedents try to forgive the perpetrators of the wars against Native Americans.
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The Recruiters: Searching For The Next Generation Of Warfighters In A Divided America
Ride along with members of the U.S. Army’s Mid-Atlantic Recruiting Battalion to see the frontlines of recruitment, in person and on social media, and how the military is working to eliminate unethical recruiting practices.
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The Cost of Being a Regular Ol’ American Place
What does it mean for the Midwest to think of itself as a featureless land full of average Americans?
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Forgiving the Unforgivable: Geronimo’s Descendants Seek to Salve Generational Trauma
After generations of resistance and trauma, the descendants of Geronimo, an important leader of the Chiricahua Apache, travel to Mexico to perform a ceremony of forgiveness. But it’s difficult to forgive a nation that built itself on genocide.
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A Refuge for Jae-In Doe: Fugues in the Key of English Major
While Seo-Young Chu earned her Ph.D. at Stanford University, an English professor sexually harassed and raped her. In this searing, formally inventive essay, Chu processes her traumatic experience and recovery in the poetic and academic forms she learned at Stanford, and she refuses to be silent.