Weekly Recommended Reading
'Liz Was a Diehard Conservative,' and more
‘Liz Was a Diehard Conservative' Elizabeth Warren doesn't like to talk about it, but for years she was a registered Republican. Why she left the GOP—and what it means for her campaign, from Politico
Against the Rules In this podcast journalist and bestselling author Michael Lewis takes a searing look at what's happened to fairness—in financial markets, newsrooms, basketball games, courts of law, and much more
The Legend of Jacinto’s Gold Two Dominican families. Their lawyer. And a quest for ancestral riches that may not exist, from Bloomberg Businessweek
The IRS Tried to Take on the Ultrawealthy. It Didn't Go Well. Ten years ago, the tax agency formed a special team to unravel the complex tax-lowering strategies of the nation's wealthiest people. But with big money — and Congress — arrayed against the team, it never had a chance, from ProPublica
- Other Links
- The shameful story of how 1 million black families have been ripped from their farms, and more
- The history of black voters, and more
- New Coke Didn’t Fail. It Was Murdered.... and more
- How the women of NASA made their mark, the tortuous history of the treadmill, etc.
- What really happened during our last standoff with Iran, and more
- Native America women leading the charge, and more
- America's original "welfare queen" and more
- Peter Max's dementia spelled opportunity for some, the curious history of crap, and more
- Who killed the prime minister? The unsolved murder that still haunts Sweden, and more...
- Who Owns South Africa?, How Beef Has Changed America, etc
- 'Liz Was a Diehard Conservative,' and more
- Rupert Murdoch's Empire of Influence, and more
- Every report on past presidential scandal was a warning. Why didn’t we listen?
- The Tragedy of Baltimore, The Big Brexit Short and more
- The Making of the Fox News White House, and more
- Since Parkland, the Secret History of Women in Coding, and more
- Black Lives and the Boston Massacre, and more
- ‘Why did you do this?’ His brother confessed to gunning down 17 people in Parkland, and more
- The World Is Choking on Digital Pollution and more great reads
- The Women Rescued from Boko Haram Who Are Returning to Their Captors, and more
- Mental Illness in American Prisons, Paul Ryan's Long Con, and more...
- Miracle At Tham Luang, Costs of the Confederacy, and more great reads
- Perversion of Justice, and more
- Palm Oil Was Supposed to Help Save the Planet. Instead It Unleashed a Catastrophe.... read this and more
- Meet the KGB Spies Who Invented Fake News, and more...
- Law Enforcement failed to see threat of white nationalism, the women who brought down Larry Nasser
- Guns in America, the legacy of Matthew Shepard, etc.
- How Sinclair is growing its conservative media empire, a Year of #MeToo, etc
- Everything You Know About Obesity Is Wrong, A Survivor's Tale and more
- Going back to the Reagan-era war on drugs, a Russian spy story, etc
- The Resistance Inside the White House, How Fracking Took Over, etc
- The City Born in a Day, The Most Devastating Cyber Attack, etc
- Saving lives with tech, ten years after the crash and more
- The Untold Story of Otto Warmbier and are the midterms being hacked?
- The Very Strange Case of Two Russian Gun Lovers, Michael Avenatti and Cockfighting
- Where Is Barack Obama?, Black Wall Street, etc
- Ferguson Four Years Later, the Real Don, Jr. and more
- Trump Came to Enforce a Practice of Separating Migrant Families, etc.
- Stoneman Douglas resource officer remains haunted by massacre, 5 myths about the refugee crisis
- How the ‘Watergate Babies’ Broke American Politics and 'The Surge' at the border, etc
- How Clinton stopped leaks, the 9.9 percent aristocracy and more
- Japanese Rent-a-Families, etc.
- My Mom Left Me for the ‘Wild Wild Country’ Cult, the Man Who Brought Down Lance Armstrong
- What it's like working for Sinclair, how Trump got on the Forbes 400 list, and more
- How "Deaf President Now" Changed America, The Real Story of the Hawaiian Missile Crisis,
- Journey of a Bullet, Everyone Got The Pulse Massacre Story Completely Wrong, etc
- Sinclair's anchors used in Trump's war on the media, Driverless Cars and the Perpetual Moral Panic, etc
- 18 Facts About Gun Violence, the secret Meme lab and a Gangster's Paradise
- Why evangelicals love Trump, To Catch a Predator, Swamp Thing, etc.
- The Genocide the US Didn't See Coming, etc.
- The Man Behind the Trump Dossier, Bleeding Chicago and more
- Dear America, here's how other countries stop mass shootings, Fascism and more..
- Believing Anita Hill, North Korea's Hacker Army, etc.
- Cape Town's water crisis, the Trump-Fox & Friends feedback loop, etc.
- Intersexuality, the Astronaut Who Might Get Us to Mars, etc
- Protecting the Shield, USA Gymnastics' Blind Eye, Disaster Tourism, etc
- Drug lords now smuggling gold, revenge porn, Ear Hustle, etc.
- Native American justice, a brother on death row, the Rockefellers, etc.
- The Trump-Fox Feedback Loop, the Capitalist Experiment Keeping Appalachia Poor, etc.
- The Unlikeliest Leaker of All, The Human Cost of the Ghost Economy, etc.
- Federal Government's Land Grab, Escaping Child Marriage, etc
- When a Black Cop Calls Out Racism, Why America's Farmers Are Killing Themselves, etc
- The US medical system is still haunted by slavery, When Your 18th Birthday Gift Is a Transfer to Adult Prison, et
- The Making of an American Nazi, Fake US embassy, etc
- Free Money, The Last of the Iron Lungs, etc
- Anatomy of a Fake News Scandal, One of the Most Secretive Dark States, etc.
- The Zombie Diseases of Climate Change, Arms Dealers, etc
- I Did It Norway, The Murderer Who Started a Movement
- 'I Hope Someone Truly Shoots You', Puerto Rico Is Burning Its Dead, etc.
- Adam Ruins Everything, What Mongolian Nomads Teach Us About the Digital Future, etc
- American Pendulum, Dirty John
- All Work. No Pay, Alt-White: How Breitbart Machine Laundered Racist Hate
- How Fake News Turned a Small Town Upside Down, What the media gets wrong about Donald Trump...
- Let Down and Locked Up, The Wall, Still Fighting at Standing Rock...
- RT, Sputnik and Russia’s New Theory of War, Meet the Camperforce...
- The First White President, Trojan Horse
- The Last Nazi Hunters, Kushners’ China Deal Flop Was Part of Much Bigger Hunt for Cash...
- A Most American Terrorist, My Life as a Russian Propaganda Network...
- Escaping Kakuma, How Fast Food Chains Supersize Inequality...
- Slaves of ISIS, The Moneyman Behind the Alt-Right....
- The Remaking of Donald Trump, The Acquired Savant...
- The Devils' Henchmen, A Definitive Guide to the G.O.P. Insiders Enabling Donald Trump ...
- The Super Predators, How An Entire Nation Became Russia's Test Lab for Cyberwar....
- In Attacks by Right-Wing Extremists, Guns are More Likely Than Bombs to Kill and Injure ...
- Addict Brokers, American Guns Are Fueling the Immigration Crisis That Trump Wants to Fix with a Wall...
- Jared Kushner’s Other Real Estate Empire, Prosecutors Race to Keep Angel-of-Death Behind Bars...
- The Birth of Climate Denial, The Forgotten Story of the Radium Girls
- What Bullets Do To Bodies, Government Paid for Poor Citizens' Health Care Some 300 Years Before Obamacare...
- April 17th, 2017