Abdallah Fayyad
The Criminalization of Gentrifying Neighborhoods
Areas that are changing economically often draw more police—creating conditions for more surveillance and more potential misconduct.
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Steven Senne / AP Should We Tell Fewer Stories About Suicide or Better Ones?
The challenges of covering and understanding a rising problem in America.
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Eduardo Munoz / Reuters To Stop Gangs, First You Have to Find Them
Rejecting members of MS-13 is the centerpiece of the president’s immigration strategy. But it’s not easy to tell who’s really in a gang.
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Charlie Neibergall / AP Are Politics Hereditary?
Parents often want to pass on their political beliefs to their kids. These factors determine when that works.
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Mohammed Salem / Reuters The Palestinian Struggle Transcends Religion
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Alex Brandon / AP Is a Moral Compass Enough for the CIA?
After Gina Haspel’s confirmation, we revisit the agency’s legacy of torture, and consider how agents make ethical decisions today.
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Mike Blake / Reuters All the President’s Lawyers
Who really represents Trump?
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Kristoffer Tripplaar / The Atlantic What Teachers Are Striking For
“You know that when teachers band together on their own, it’s gotta be bad.”
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters How Presidents Speak
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Nir Elias / Reuters What We Still Don’t Know About Marijuana
(A lot.)
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Emily Jan / The Atlantic What Should We Call the Parkland Generation?
Move over, Millennials.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Leaks, the Law, and the Press
How a White House leak can be interpreted—by the law, the press, and you.
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Justin Tallis / Getty Images Autonomous Cars Are Almost Here. Are Cities Ready?
The window to regulate driverless vehicles is still open, but not for much longer.
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Charles Knoblock / AP The Unfulfilled Promise of Fair Housing
Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream of an integrated America was about creating a more equal society, but to many white homeowners, it was a threat.
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Dado Ruvic / Reuters Who’s to Answer for Cambridge Analytica?
Facebook, the government, or you?
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters How to Misremember the Iraq War
After 15 years, a gap has opened up between what happened and how it’s perceived.
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Hannah Mckay / Reuters Russia’s Known Unknowns
Vladimir Putin’s totally predictable re-election offers a few clues to what the man of mystery might do next.
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Maciej Toporowicz / Getty Pay No Attention to the G-Man Behind the Curtain
The FBI has long tried to control its public image. But, as it faces a major PR crisis, that power is weaker than it has historically been.
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Stringer France / Reuters History Is Testing Evangelicals, Again
Billy Graham’s complicated relationship with Martin Luther King and civil rights echoes the struggles of evangelicals today.
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Leah Millis / Reuters Nice Global Economy. Shame If Anything Happened to It...
The president wants to rewrite the rules everyone trades by. And he's using all of America's economic muscle to do it. -
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Dado Ruvic / Reuters Can Big Tech Hold Itself Accountable?
Twitter and Facebook’s ethics problems don’t have quantitative solutions.
