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Luke O'Neil
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Border Patrol agents were recently reminded they can exempt Ukrainian asylum seekers from expulsions at the border. Mexican and Central Americans…
BORDER/LINES
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This week's theme: coming back.
Jack Mirkinson
7
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Every story about a weapon describes a sufficiently advanced rock turning people into past tense
Kelsey D. Atherton
7
The Justice Department really had the nerve to boast about indicting its second U.S. citizen under the 1994 federal torture statute. Plus: the latest…
Spencer Ackerman
7
In reality, the economy is a social construct
Luke O'Neil
7
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The robotic hounds of the uncanny valley of the death undergo trials in El Paso.
Kelsey D. Atherton
8
Hello everyone, Eoin Higgins here from The Flashpoint. Last week, I talked to Joe Dumont, a 32-year-old Lincoln Park, Michigan man, about his struggle…
Eoin Higgins
8
The CIA has now acknowledged that almost every declared case of "Havana Syndrome" has a natural, not science fiction, origin. Why did anybody ever think…
Derek Davison
13
It's much easier to demonize criminals than to examine inequality.
Libby Watson
11
New year, same politics
Eoin Higgins
10
What this little community of journalists and readers means to me.
Jack Crosbie
11
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