“The United States leads the world in airline safety. That’s because of the way we assign blame when accidents do happen.”
Seyward Darby
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The Venture
“How two single moms escaped an alleged sex-trafficking ring and ultimately saved each other.”
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Care, Out of the Closet
“LGBTQ elders face discrimination in underfunded nursing homes.”
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Fentanyl: The Portrait of a Mass Murderer
“A cheap, white powder—50 times more powerful than heroin—which kills more than 70,000 people each year in the United States and countless others across the rest of the Western Hemisphere.”
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Tell Me Why the Watermelon Grows
“Throughout its botanical, cultural, and social history, it has been a vehicle for our ideas about community, survival, and what we owe the future.”
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Finding Jordan Neely
“He had places he belonged and people looking out for him. How did he end up dying, alone, at the hands of a stranger?”
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The Work of the Witness
“Three months into a livestreamed genocide, we must ask—what does all this looking do?”
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The Neighbors Who Destroyed Their Lives
“Murder and lies in small-town Hawaii.”
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In 1967, a Black Man and a White Woman Bought a Home. American Politics Would Never Be the Same.
“What happened to the Bailey family in the Detroit suburb of Warren became a flashpoint in the national battle over integration.”