This meticulously-reported piece explores the bungled investigation into a 1994 double murder in Oak Grove, Kentucky, a small town weighed down by the military-industrial complex.
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Posted inBundyville The Remnant, Crime, Culture, Current Events, investigations, Nonfiction, Standout, Story
Bundyville: The Remnant, Chapter One: A Quiet Man
When a bomb exploded in a tiny desert town, there was no doubt who did it. But no one could understand why.
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Open Burns, Ill Winds
An in-depth report on how munitions plants across America continue to irresponsibly dispose of bomb and bullet waste by “open burning.” The practice, banned 30 years ago, still takes place nearly every day under a permit loophole, putting millions of pounds of toxic chemicals and pollutants into the air, essentially poisoning residents and the environment.
Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
Lean On
A declaration of dependence, excerpted from Briallen Hopper’s new essay collection.
Posted inBundyville The Remnant, Current Events, investigations, Nonfiction, Standout, Story
Bundyville: The Remnant, Chapter Two: The Hunter and the Bomb
The story was that a radical man set off a bomb in the desert. But what about everything else that happened?
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Essays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
Of Blackness and ‘Beauty’
At an art exhibit exploring black models through Western art, Morgan Jerkins finds historical evidence of the white supremacist definitions of beauty Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom identifies in ‘Thick: and Other Essays.’
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
His Life’s Set Prize: The Story of Polar Explorer Henry Worsley
Sometimes, knowing when to go home is the most important decision you can make on a polar expedition.
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True Roots
One woman quits coloring her gray hair and investigates the human and environmental costs of this contentious female beauty standard.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story
George Washington Lived in an Indian World, But His Biographies Have Erased Native People
Telling Washington’s story without erasing the people and lands that preoccupied him leads to important new questions; like, just how consequential for American history was the first president’s addiction to land speculation?
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The Recruiters: Searching For The Next Generation Of Warfighters In A Divided America
Ride along with members of the U.S. Army’s Mid-Atlantic Recruiting Battalion to see the frontlines of recruitment, in person and on social media, and how the military is working to eliminate unethical recruiting practices.
