US children joked about school shootings. Then the sheriff sent them to jail.
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A drunken evening, a rented yacht: the real story of the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage
23 votes -
I’ve been at NPR for twenty-five years. Here’s how we lost America’s trust.
54 votes -
How Chinese organized crime dominates America’s illicit marijuana market
12 votes -
Northern Ireland elects Irish nationalist First Minister Michelle O'Neill
31 votes -
Sixty-six good news stories you didn't hear about in 2023
48 votes -
Maine shooting rampage suspect found dead
32 votes -
Damning evidence of war crimes as Israeli attacks wipe out entire families in Gaza
46 votes -
Six Mississippi 'goon squad' deputies plead guilty to torturing Black men
57 votes -
A. G. Sulzberger on the battles within and against The New York Times
9 votes -
Alternative facts - How the media failed Julian Assange
10 votes -
Our fundamental right to shame and shun The New York Times
16 votes -
A secretive hedge fund is gutting newsrooms
8 votes -
The co-founder of Snopes wrote dozens of plagiarized articles for the fact-checking site
11 votes -
Is Glenn Greenwald the new master of right-wing media?
6 votes -
Slow news is good news
10 votes -
Looking back on the George Floyd rebellion in the US
6 votes -
Master criminal Rédoine Faïd loved the movies, and his greatest crimes were laced with tributes. When he landed in a maximum-security prison, cinema provided inspiration for his escape.
9 votes -
It is 100 seconds to midnight: 2021 Doomsday Clock statement
16 votes -
Joe Biden is certified as the 46th President of the United States
43 votes -
A riveting ISIS story, told in a Times podcast, falls apart (Caliphate podcast)
8 votes -
"The intelligence coup of the century" - For decades, the CIA read the encrypted communications of allies and adversaries
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Joe Biden elected president
69 votes -
As local news dies, a pay-for-play network rises in its place
7 votes -
The truth is paywalled but the lies are free
56 votes -
A newsroom at the edge of autocracy; The South China Morning Post is arguably the world’s most important newspaper for what it tells us about media freedoms as China’s power grows
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I was arrested, jailed and assaulted by a guard. My ‘crime’? Being a journalist in Trump’s America
11 votes -
The Chinese government is engaging in a widespread, systematic campaign of forced birth control and sterilization on Uighurs and other minorities
48 votes -
The American press is destroying itself
6 votes -
Legal survey finds that US police are granted immunity at a high rate in use of force cases
12 votes -
He could have seen what was coming: Behind Trump’s failure on the virus
14 votes -
What happens when local news outlets don't exist?
12 votes -
Trapped in Iran
7 votes -
It is 100 seconds to midnight: 2020 Doomsday Clock statement
22 votes -
Hundreds of ‘pink slime’ local news outlets are distributing algorithmic stories and conservative talking points
12 votes -
Atlantic Council has published an update to their 2016 Global Risks 2035 report, analyzing geopolitical and technological trends and their potential impacts on the future
7 votes -
Why can’t we agree on what’s true any more?
18 votes -
When prosecutors bury New York Police Department officers' lies
7 votes -
Russia carried out a massive breach of FBI communications system, escalating the spy game on US soil
18 votes -
A dead cat, a lawyer's call and a five-figure donation: how the media fell short on Jeffrey Epstein
8 votes -
Donald Trump, QAnon and an impending judgment day: Behind the Facebook-fueled rise of The Epoch Times
11 votes -
The tragic story of Jimmy Aldaoud, deported from the streets of Detroit to his death in Iraq
7 votes -
Elizabeth Warren’s Classroom Strategy: A lifelong teacher, she’s the most professorial presidential candidate ever. But does America want to be taught?
13 votes -
Journalists often withhold details of mass shooters and suicides to discourage copycats. Should that “strategic silence” be extended to extremist speech, misinformation, and propaganda, too?
10 votes -
A vast archive exposed the secret history of kidnapping and assassination in Guatemala. Now it’s under threat
5 votes -
Mentally Ill and Languishing in Jail
6 votes -
Decade in the red: Trump tax figures show over $1 billion in business losses from 1985 to 1994
11 votes -
How the news took over reality: Is engagement with current affairs key to being a good citizen? Or could an endless torrent of notifications be harming democracy as well as our wellbeing?
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“I felt like it was a betrayal, and we had raised funds on a false pretense”: The Correspondent’s first US employee speaks out
13 votes -
The urgent quest for slower, better news
10 votes