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mind

The Wrong Conversation About School Shootings
A culture of hypervigilence and militarization isn't the same thing as gun control.
Harry Cheadle
9.19.19
Websites

Website.com Is a Website About Websites
Worth checking out.
Jason Koebler
9.19.19
nuclear power

Japan Just Let the Executives Who Oversaw the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster off the Hook
Years after the disaster, there are ghost towns in the areas surrounding the plant.
Alex Lubben
9.19.19
Can You Skate It?

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Pro Skaters Rush Area 51: Can You Skate It?
Taji Ameen takes a team of professional skaters including Riley Hawk, Taylor Kirby, and Richie Jackson deep into the deserts of Nevada.
climate

New, Dire Climate Models Say the Planet Warms Faster Than We Thought
Two new models say the Earth is even more sensitive to emissions than we thought, and humanity has to work even harder to meet Paris agreement targets.
Madeleine Gregory
9.19.19
Trump Tax returns

Trump’s Now Arguing He Doesn't Have the Time to Be Investigated in Any Criminal Case
The move marks yet another front in Trump’s ever-widening legal battle to keep his finances, and specifically his tax returns, secret.
Greg Walters
9.19.19
The Borders Issue 2019

Municipal Borders Have a Huge Impact on Millions of People’s Daily Lives. Here Are a Few of America’s Starkest.
Piedmont, California; Grosse Pointe, Michigan; and Roxbury, Massachusetts, may be separated by thousands of miles, but they've been shaped by the same man-made forces.
Susie Cagle
Emma Ockerman
Drew Schwartz
9.19.19
Tech news

North America Lost Nearly 30% of Its Birds In the Last 50 Years
The hidden crisis amounts to a loss of almost 3 billion birds since 1970 due to human activity and climate change, scientists say, and requires action.
Sarah Wells
9.19.19
CYBER

The Private Surveillance System That Tracks Cars Nationwide
It’s not just the NSA with all of the surveillance power in America, there's a booming corporate-owned surveillance industry used by private investigators.
Motherboard Staff
9.19.19
dc statehood

Pelosi Is Master-Trolling the GOP With This D.C. Statehood Thing
Visualize two extremely liberal senators joining Mitch McConnell in the upper chamber.
Morgan Baskin
9.19.19
vaping

The Feds Want to Know If You've Vaped Illicit Juice — and No, You Won't Be Charged
The FDA revealed that it’s opened a criminal investigation into hundreds of mysterious, vaping-related illnesses.
Emma Ockerman
9.19.19
sex work

Actual Dancers Lost Thousands of Dollars When 'Hustlers' Filmed in Their Strip Club
Show Palace in New York City was closed for five days for filming and dancers who couldn't work didn't get paid.
Trish Bendix
9.19.19
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