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The Trillion-Dollar Grift: Inside the Greatest Scam of All Time
The pandemic relief was the biggest bailout in history, and it opened the door to wide-scale fraud the likes of which no one had ever seen — more than three years later, we still don't know how much damage was done
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Why a Harrowing 18th-Century Shipwreck Is a Parable for Our Times
Author David Grann discusses his latest book — a true story of mayhem, mutiny, and “efforts by those in power to erase a sinful past”
- Lost History
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‘Cowards and Sycophants’: Don Winslow Rails Against Republicans, Talks Gangster Novel ‘City on Fire’
The author kicks off a new trilogy — which he says will be his last books — and explains why he keeps making viral anti-Trump videos
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Year in Review: 33 Moments That Made Us Smile in 2020
From a TikTok musical to a flute solo to a 10-year-old drummer showing up Dave Grohl, we found a few moments that weren't completely terrible in the dumpster fire that was 2020
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John Bolton Tells on Trump — and on Himself
Bolton said his attitude was to "print and be damned." Mission accomplished
- Politics
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The Forbidden City: Face-to-Face with New York in Crisis
What’s left when all of the city’s pleasures have been taken away?
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The Last Word: Jane Goodall on Fighting Sexism and What Chimpanzees Taught Her
The primatologist also discusses the horrors of factory farming and what keeps her motivated six decades into her career
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The Coronavirus Is a Fast-Motion Climate Crisis
Scientists ignored, government watchdogs gutted, corporate profits prioritized. Sound familiar?
- Politics
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Trump's Coronavirus Response Will Be His Toxic Legacy
There is no moment Trump can ever rise to, he only sinks to his most base nature
- Politics
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