“At the tap of a buyer’s smartphone, Chinese chemical sellers will air-ship fentanyl ingredients door-to-door to North America. Reuters purchased enough to make 3 million pills. Such deals are astonishingly easy—and reveal how drug traffickers are eluding efforts to halt the deadly trade behind the fentanyl crisis.”
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Guilty: Inside the High-Risk, Historic Prosecution of a School Shooter’s Parents
“A Post reporter embedded with Michigan prosecutors as they pursued homicide charges against Jennifer and James Crumbley, whose son killed four students at Oxford High.”
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We Volunteered at a Gaza Hospital. What We Saw Was Unspeakable.
“American surgeons who witnessed the civilian carnage of the Israel-Hamas war.”
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What My Adult Autism Diagnosis Finally Explained
“I’d long suspected something was ‘off.’ Then, at 43, an unexpected answer arrived.”
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Hush-Hush Affair
“How the NDA became the defining legal document of our time.”
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Huge in Palm Springs
“An unlikely statue has become a rich-person controversy for the ages. In the California desert, I found out why.”
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The Eviction Cure
“What happens when a prominent Dallas attorney gets ticked off about thousands of his fellow citizens being thrown out of their homes in violation of the law? Courtroom fireworks, for starters.”
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Wild Talk: A Reading List On Artificial Intelligence and Interspecies Communication
AI is opening up the possibility of communicating with other animals. But will we listen? And can we ever truly understand?
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The Smallest Victims: Why Does America Keep Allowing Toddlers to Shoot Themselves?
“Nearly every day, a child unintentionally fires a gun and injures or kills someone. It’s one of the most preventable forms of gun violence—but that doesn’t mean it’s easy to solve.”
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‘I’m Good, I Promise’: The Loneliness of the Low-Ranking Tennis Player
“I was once Ireland’s No 1 player, and tried for years to climb the global ranks. But life at the bottom of the top can be brutal.”