The Intercept

On the strange political economy of flood insurance: What does home ownership look like in an age of climate change? When is it OK to rebuild, and when is it time to retreat?

Before she followed her mentor Steve Bannon to the White House, Julia Hahn was a recent college grad from Beverly Hills who attended the liberal enclaves of Harvard-Westlake and the University of Chicago. Peter Maass attempts to unravel the mystery of what brought a 25-year-old with no distinct political leanings to become a reporter for Breitbart and a voice of the alt-right. The mystery, however, may have a simple answer: “Washington is bursting with strivers in their 20s just like her, eager to find their spot on the terrain of political power, while unsure of what their own attitudes about power really are.”

Arkansas plans to execute seven people by lethal injection this month — with an untested, nearly-expired drug.

How a flawed investigation and junk arson science convicted Angela Garcia of killing her two daughters.

New York’s chronically slow court system continues to be a problem for thousands of detainees being held at Riker’s, who are left waiting for a trial that might not happen for several years.

The Intercept examines secret documents on drone strikes. “During a five-month stretch of the campaign, nearly nine out of 10 people who died in airstrikes were not the Americans’ direct targets. By February 2013, Haymaker airstrikes had resulted in no more than 35 ‘jackpots,’ a term used to signal the neutralization of a specific targeted individual, while more than 200 people were declared EKIA — ‘enemy killed in action.'”

Barrett Brown reviews books from inside a federal prison.

DuPont disposed of toxic Teflon chemicals in unlined landfills, into the air, and directly into the Ohio River, and then they engaged in a decades-long cover-up about the health effects.

A look at how the NSA converts spoken words into searchable text, and the implications of said technology.