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The Fatal Flaw in the Border Patrol’s Rescue Program
“The Missing Migrant Program is meant to prevent deaths. Instead, it may be causing them.”
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Century-Scale Storage
“If you had to store something for 100 years, how would you do it?”
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This Ocean Wave Has Rights Â
“The true meaning of legal protection for nature.”
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The Divorce Tapes
“My family knew that my father had been tapping the phone lines. Only later would I discover the secrets the recordings contained.”
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What Waiting Is, Ibram X. Kendi, and Our Top 5
“What is it, precisely, that you work for? What real goodness do you seek at the end of your own long line? “
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, our editors recommend longreads by Kelsey Vlamis, Brian Feldman, Skip Hollandsworth, Tessa Somberg, and Alison Espach.
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America’s Bee Problem Is an Us Problem
“Beekeepers went away for vacation and returned to depleted hives. Entire apiaries collapsed in the span of weeks.”
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Locked In, Priced Out
“The Appeal’s 9-month investigation uncovered prison commissaries’ exploitative, inconsistent systems with inside prices up to five times higher than in the community and markups as high as 600 percent.”
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Too Short’s Long (and Very Raunchy) Life in Rap
“The West Coast rapper is an unsung pioneer of some of the genre’s most central elements.”
