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The Murder of ‘The Washington Post’
“Today’s layoffs are the latest attempt to kill what makes the paper special.”
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You’ve Heard About Who ICE Is Recruiting. The Truth Is Far Worse. I’m the Proof.
“What happens when you do minimal screening before hiring agents, arming them, and sending them into the streets? We’re all finding out.”
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‘It’s Like a War Zone’: What Happened When Portland Decriminalized Fentanyl
“Drug overdoses killed some 87,000 Americans over a 12-month period ending in September 2024 — more lives lost than the wars in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq combined.”
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The Night Raids
“A reporter returns to investigate her past and unravel the legacy of the secretive Zero Units.”
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The Teeth Makers of Kandahar
Haji Muhammad Sultan owns a business in the center of Kandahar, Afghanistan’s second-largest city, dedicated to handcrafting high-quality dentures. Founded by his grandfather 80 years ago, the shop was a place that Sultan came as a child to learn the family craft; he became a military doctor during the U.S.-led occupation and made teeth for […]
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What Happened to Rezwan
“On the last day of Rezwan Kohistani’s life, he ate lunch alone.”
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Is Traveling to Every Country in the World a Worthy Cause? This Group Thinks So.
“I tagged along on a surreal trip to a conflict zone in Azerbaijan with a group of explorers known as the world’s Most Traveled People.”
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As the World Moves On, Veterans of the Afghanistan Withdrawal Struggle to Join Them
“‘I feel like I’m still there,’ a Marine told me. ‘I feel like everything that happened, happened five minutes ago.’” Reporting for Task & Purpose, Haley Britzky spoke to 15 soldiers, Marines, and airmen who were part of the Afghanistan withdrawal mission in August 2021. It’s a difficult read, but also a raw and visceral account […]
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A Few Good Men
“Jordan Neely’s killer and the racist violence at the heart of the American imperial project.”
