“The first time ‘The New York Times’ had lost a defamation case in over half a century.”
Seyward Darby
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A Mississippi Death Penalty Jury Was Seated. With One Black Juror.
“The jury sentenced Pitchford to death.”
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The Seniors Against Senior Housing
“America’s elders need more places to live, but even in liberal enclaves that recognize the problem, developers are facing the fiercest foes of all: America’s elders.”
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The Children a Scientist Took Home
Carleton Gajdusek won the Nobel Prize for his work on a disease in Papua New Guinea. But his biggest experiment was on the children he took from the field to the US—many of whom he sexually molested, with the knowledge and, in some cases, approval of his professional peers and colleagues: In his journals and […]
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How Anti-ICE Protesters Became Prisoners in Trump’s War on Antifa
“‘We are not terrorists.'”
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Whose Babies Are These?
“A Chinese man hired a Florida surrogate, then didn’t pick up his kids, sparking a custody battle that could upend the industry.”
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Rachel Aviv: Mother and Daughter
“An interview with the author of ‘Strangers to Ourselves’—and now, ‘You Won’t Get Free of It.'”
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Parting Shot
“Stormy Morse lost two partners to gun suicide. Then the NRA came to collect.”
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‘We Were Simply Animals’
“What happens to the disappeared in Mexico’s narco-slavery camps.”