Sublime

will explain how Americans in some of the most populated regions of the country have put themselves at particular risk, exposing a pattern of shortsighted policies that encouraged people to settle in vulnerable parts of the continent. It will show how decades of economic policies have favored some Americans over others, polarizing the country furth

In the trucking manifests, Kendra could see that the sludge that was supposed to be trucked to a landfill in Ohio was cocktailed with other waste up at Yeager instead.

Less than a year from the day I spent with Shishima, news broke that the federal government was proposing to set up a detention center for migrant children at Oklahoma’s Fort Sill; it had previously housed more than one thousand people in 2014. Before that, in 1942, it was also one of the camps holding Japanese Americans.

opioid manufacturers and distributors were pumping millions of opioid pain pills into the state.

Most of them would never know their mothers. They were dropped off in the scaffetta, a drawer built into the outer wall of the Pietà. Like the size tester for carry-on luggage at the airport, if a baby was small enough to fit, the Pietà would raise her.

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McAnnis had had one cult case before, and he knew what didn’t work—words. What did work was kidnapping. He grabbed her off the street in broad daylight—she was walking with just one other Ayuva Daeva devotee, on the way back from the Berkeley Grocery Collective, paper bags in hand—and shoved her into his rental car, placed handcuffs around her wris

THE DAY of our departure