“We compiled Reconstruction-era documents to identify 1,250 formerly enslaved Black Americans given land—only to have it returned to their enslavers.”
Mother Jones
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Featuring notable stories from Paul Solotaroff, Maddie Oatman, Gabriel Smith, Meg Bernhard, and Alexandra Horowitz.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week we are featuring stories from Mark Follman, Scott Stossel, Wei Tchou, Sara Franklin, and Alexander Sammon.
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Lessons From a Mass Shooter’s Mother
“A decade after her son committed a massacre, Chin Rodger is on a quest to help prevent the next tragedy.”
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I Read Everything Elon Musk Posted for a Week. Send Help.
“If your media diet looked like his, you’d be red-pilled too.”
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The Venus Flytrap and the Golf Course
“The Endangered Species Act is thought of as wildlife’s ’emergency room.’ Are we doing enough to prevent species from landing there?”
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Inside the Psychiatric Hospitals Where Foster Kids Are a “Gold Mine”
“How a scandal-plagued health care giant profits off a failing child welfare system.”
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What Does It Mean to Protect Children?
“This is the question that ripped an idyllic high-plains town asunder.”
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Inside the Secret Working Group That Helped Push Anti-Trans Laws Across the Country
“Leaked emails give a glimpse of the religious-right networks behind transgender health care bans.”