A key product of ubiquitous surveillance is people who are comfortable with it. By L. M. Sacasas.

Want to become a police officer, firefighter, or paramedic? A Wired investigation finds government jobs are one of the last holdouts in using—and misusing—otherwise debunked polygraph technology. By Mark Harris.

As of Nov. 8, more than 82,000 veterans are still waiting for their housing payments with only weeks remaining in the school semester. By Phil McCausland.

Just before he left, the departing attorney-general adopted a policy to limit the Justice Department’s ability to oversee abusive police departments. That same policy could also hamper the department’s role in environmental, voting-rights, and other cases. By Ian MacDougall.

A decade after the worst fighting overseas, five combat veterans put the Forever War and American civilian life into perspective. By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos.

The Real News

How a surgeon who has been dubbed “Dr. Death” got away with harming patients for a criminally long time. By Laura Beil.

Can states’ rights save us from a second civil war? By Jonathan Taplin.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn believes that politics have left young people behind. In an interview with Der Spiegel, he speaks about Brexit, the crisis of social democracy in Europe and the uphill battle to unite his party.

Immigration officials stopped allowing a volunteer group to visit people at a local detention facility unless its members agreed not to talk with the press or other groups about conditions inside. By Kate Morrissey.

Georgia, Texas cases show states whistling past voting security graveyard. By Sean Gallagher.

United States elections are not evidence-based elections. Their potential vulnerability is critical because the entire system of our democracy depends on public trust—the belief that, however divided the country is, the result has integrity. Nothing is more insidious and corrosive than the idea that the tally of votes itself could be unreliable and exposed to fraud. By Jennifer Cohn.

Over and over we’ve gotten scientific wake-up calls, and over and over we’ve hit the snooze button. If we keep doing that, climate change will no longer be a problem, because calling something a problem implies there’s still a solution. By Bill McKibben.

His supporters hark back to an 1860s fantasy of white male dominance. But the Confederacy won’t win in the long run, says Rebecca Solnit

Recently declassified documents show that the former CIA director and former director of national intelligence approved illegal spying on Congress and then classified their crime. They need to face punishment, writes John Kiriakou.

For some students, A People’s History will be the only history book they read. What does it teach them? By Sam Wineburg.

Throughout his time as the Trump administration’s Interior Secretary, Zinke has been at odds with conservationists on the Endangered Species Act. By Stephan Cho.

Three companies dominate the U.S. voting-maching industry. By Anders Melin and Reade Pickert.

On the eve of the midterms, the most powerful man on earth corrals his troops around two visions of America – one full of hope, the other one much darker – and tests the ground for 2020. By Ed Pilkington.

Using Chinese-language sources and analysis of papers published by Chinese military scientists, the report presents the first detailed analysis of the nature and scale of this overlooked issue. By Alex Joske.

Border Patrol agents are extending their reach deep into the country’s interior. By Melissa del Bosque.

The United States shows all the warning signs of impending social and political collapse. By Stephen Marche.

Everything from food to oil depends on underpaid and overworked drivers. By Elisabeth Braw. (Sept. 19, 2018)

Helping children distinguish fake from real news will give them a lifelong benefit. By Prateek Puri.

Intelligence agencies, Nikki Haley, sanctions, and public opinion. By Stephen F. Cohen.

What happened when Boston Public Schools tried for equity with an algorithm. By David Scharfenberg, Irfan Uraizee, Saurabh Datar. (Sept. 21, 2018)

The former agent said that he could not stand by as he saw reports that the abuses he witnessed continue – including the destruction of water jugs. By John Washington.

The real meaning of the IPCC report isn’t “climate change is worse than you think.” We knew that. It’s “you now have permission to freak out.” By David Wallace-Wells.

In this guest edition of The Interview, Vikram Zutshi talks to physicist, activist and author Fritjof Capra. (Apr. 15, 2018)

Widespread poverty and food deserts left Native Americans with the highest rate of diabetes in the country — but change is on the horizon

ICE told Carlos Rueda Cruz to focus on “illegal aliens” with criminal histories. He would need to produce one name per month or be sent back to Mexico. By Ryan Katz. (Sept. 24, 2018)

And what we can do about it. By Joseph E. Stiglitz.

Contra the conventional wisdom, Democrats are far from having 2018 locked up. By Peter Van Buren.

Where the Koch brothers see government tyranny, most Americans see common-sense solutions to basic problems, it turns out. Nick Surgey, Zaid Jilani.

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