“Oakes had sparked an iconic 1960s protest, the occupation of Alcatraz Island.”
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Ginni and Clarence: A Love Story
“How they saved one another, raged against their enemies, and brought the American experiment to the brink.”
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The Fugitive Heiress Next Door
“How a reclusive woman’s past in suburban D.C. sparked a true-crime sensation in Brazil—and a national reckoning over the status of household servants.”
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A Few Good Men
“Jordan Neely’s killer and the racist violence at the heart of the American imperial project.”
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A Trucker’s Kidnapping, a Suspicious Ransom, and a Colorado Family’s Perilous Quest for Justice
“The killings laid bare a dark side of the transmigrante industry.”
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‘Nothing Will Go Wrong. It’s Paradise.’
“Numerous passengers traveling on major cruise lines such as Carnival and Disney say in court documents that they were raped and assaulted — oftentimes by crew members.”
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Clarence Thomas and the Billionaire
“For decades, Justice Clarence Thomas has secretly accepted luxury trips from a major Republican donor, newly obtained documents and interviews show.”
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Listen
“A story about what happens when the people and institutions that are supposed to protect, fail.”
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The Landlord & the Tenant
“A young mother rents a house near Milwaukee. The previous tenant tells her, ‘Baby, they shouldn’t have let you move in.'”
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What Happened to the Women Prisoners at Hickman’s Farms
“During the pandemic, in an unheard-of experiment, incarcerated women in Arizona were moved to a prison camp on a multimillion-dollar private farm, where hazardous, meagerly paid work changed their lives forever.”