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Raw Sugar Is No Better for You Than Refined
In Broward County, Florida, a bold experiment in public defense.
How $550 and a five-day class gets you the right to stalk, arrest, and shoot people.
Janet Delaney chronicles a neighborhood’s transformation from working-class haven to playground for the rich.
Disappearing puffins, stray whales, invading sailfish: The North Atlantic is in a bad way. Here’s why.
Why computer literacy is key to winning the 21st century.
Deficit hawks slam them. Execs admit they don’t need them. Yet Big Oil clings to its billions in government giveaways. Here’s how.
Data journalism only matters when it’s transparent.
This is your wilderness on drugs.
Parents can’t keep children alone in their rooms for 1,964 hours. But Ohio allegedly does.
Critics claim that Bay Area tech shuttles’ environmental benefits are overstated. They’re wrong
Mother Jones has uncovered photographic evidence of animal mistreatment behind the network’s top reality show.
And one man’s quest to bring hundreds more back.
We throw thousands of men in the hole for the books they read, the company they keep, the beliefs they hold. Here’s why
Backbreaking labor, vicious beatings, unmarked graves, childhoods lost—five men return to the scene of their nightmares.
What do refund lenders see when they look at poor neighborhoods?
No one is sure what made a 17-year-old poetry-writing cop gun down four Marines.
The wars are winding down. It’s the age of austerity. But nobody messes with the Pentagon budget.
These food hackers think their new faux animal products will win over even the most devoted carnivores.
The Haida artist’s groundbreaking work—now on its first US tour—aims to rejuvenate a once-mighty culture.
A growing body of research shows that urban farms reduce violence.
Imagine serving decades in prison for a crime your sibling framed you for. Now imagine doing it while profoundly deaf.
Can a single committed person save a threatened ecosystem? Yes, she can.
Silicon Valley golden boys like Elon Musk rely on taxpayers to jump-start their businesses. So why do they pretend they did it alone?
Twelve global disasters and one powerful antidote.
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