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Rough seas over here
Featuring no hot takes on you know what
Mar 28, 2022
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Luke O'Neil
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Asylum a la carte
Border Patrol agents were recently reminded they can exempt Ukrainian asylum seekers from expulsions at the border. Mexican and Central Americans…
Mar 21, 2022
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BORDER/LINES
16
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You Can Go Home Again
This week's theme: coming back.
Mar 7, 2022
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Jack Mirkinson
11
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February 2022
War machinery and beatdown journalism
Every story about a weapon describes a sufficiently advanced rock turning people into past tense
Feb 28, 2022
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Kelsey D. Atherton
9
Pennsylvania Man Arrested For Torture Official CIA Channels
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…
Feb 22, 2022
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Spencer Ackerman
8
Like they're talking about the weather
In reality, the economy is a social construct
Feb 14, 2022
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Luke O'Neil
8
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Scampering Robots, Are You The Destroyer?
The robotic hounds of the uncanny valley of the death undergo trials in El Paso.
Feb 7, 2022
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Kelsey D. Atherton
10
January 2022
I’m just on edge all the time
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…
Jan 31, 2022
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Eoin Higgins
9
Havana (Syndrome) Affair
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…
Jan 24, 2022
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Derek Davison
13
Who deserves to die?
It's much easier to demonize criminals than to examine inequality.
Jan 17, 2022
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Libby Watson
11
"It's Just Sort Of Taken As A Given That This Is The Way Things Are"
New year, same politics
Jan 10, 2022
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Eoin Higgins
10
December 2021
Our Year of Discontents
What this little community of journalists and readers means to me.
Dec 27, 2021
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Jack Crosbie
11
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