Go Back To Your Country, They Said
A new HuffPost database explores the moral emergency of hate in the Trump era.
The Strange Life and Mysterious Death of a Virtuoso Coder
Jerrold Haas was on the brink of blockchain riches. Then his body was found in the woods of southern Ohio.
I went to a convention for politics nerds and it filled me with dread, loathing, and existential terror.
At Politicon, politics is understood not as a means by which to improve lives, but as blood sport.
The Problem With Crime Junkie
One of the hottest podcasts in the country has built a seven-figure business telling stories about true crime. Too bad the tales aren’t its own.
On a Finnish Archipelago, Moving Through Sorrow
The beauty and calm of the Aland Islands are deceptive. Isolation encourages contemplation — but can it, as one grieving mother wonders, offer respite as well?
Hundreds of Florida Inmates Are Serving Drug Sentences No Longer in State Law
Jomari DeLeon, a mother of three, is serving the third year of a 15-year sentence for selling 48 prescription tablets to an undercover cop — a severe penalty that’s a result of Florida’s “tough on crime” laws passed in the 1990s. Lawmakers now view those old drug sentencing laws as going too far, and have passed new legislation to give lighter sentences for those selling prescription drugs. Unfortunately for DeLeon, the new laws do not retroactively apply to her case.
The High-Stakes Race to Breed Cannabis With 0% THC
Weed can make you laugh, but the challenges to CBD growers aren’t funny.
Flint’s Children Suffer in Class After Years of Drinking the Lead-Poisoned Water
The physical and congitive effects of lead poisoning on students require special education interventions that are difficult for struggling schools to provide.
Moses Speaks Spanglish
Identity and agency tangle in complicated ways when none of the languages you speak can precisely channel who you are.
‘I Will Never Let Boeing Forget Her’
In designing the 737 MAX, Boeing altered the plane’s automatic response in the event of a faulty angle-of-attack sensor, failed to include the change in the airplane’s operating manual, and then promptly blamed foreign pilots when two separate crashes involving the model took 347 lives.
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