Rachel Crooks is one of 19 women who have accused President Donald Trump of sexual assault. She plans to continue telling her story until something changes.
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The Great Online School Scam
Students are performing worse than ever, but private companies are making millions.
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An Oral History of Bob Costas Having Pink Eye at the Olympics
A look back at Bob Costas’ eye infection during the 2014 Olympics, which led to Meredith Vieira becoming the first woman to host prime-time Olympics coverage solo and countless memes.
Posted inNonfiction
The Strange and Dangerous World of America’s Big Cat People
A headline-grabbing murder-for-hire plot helped expose the dark side of exotic animal ownership in the U.S. Is there now enough momentum to reform the industry?
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How Lobbyists Normalized the Use of Chemical Weapons on American Civilians
Or, how we learned to stop worrying and love the gas. An excerpt from Anna Feigenbaum’s book, Tear Gas: From the Battlefields of WWI to the Streets of Today.
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Story
The Young Man and the Sea Sponge
SpongeBob SquarePants turned 20 this summer. This is the story of how a marine biology teacher named Stephen Hillenburg gave life to an animated character who continues to delight fans worldwide.
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No One Told Babe Ruth He Had Cancer, But His Death Changed the Way We Fight It
How the legendary baseball player’s cancer treatment in the 1940s helped pave the way for how we treat cancer today.
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Nonfiction, Quotes
The Dark Side of Amazon’s Job Creation
Is any new job a good job? A look at Amazon’s warehouse jobs, where workers struggle to keep up.
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What Amazon Does to Poor Cities
Depressed cities hoping Amazon fulfillment jobs will lift them have been left wanting.
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A Teen and a Toy Gun
This is the story of the last day of 17-year-old Quanice Hayes’s life. It involves a police department that says they have no good way of deciphering between real guns and fake ones, and a family still searching for answers.
