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Palm Oil Was Supposed to Help Save the Planet. Instead It Unleashed a Catastrophe. A decade ago, the U.S. mandated the use of vegetable oil in biofuels, leading to industrial-scale deforestation — and a huge spike in carbon emissions, from Pro Publica and The New York Times Magazine

“I Hereby Confess Judgment” How an obscure legal document turned New York's court system into a debt-collection machine that's chewing up small businesses across America, from Bloomberg BusinessWeek

An Anti-Vaxxer's New Crusade Dr. David Ayoub used to be active in the anti-vaccination movement. Now he's challenging mainstream science again—as an expert witness for accused child abusers, from The New Yorker

Sen. Chris Murphy's Lonely Quest to End the War in Yemen The Connecticut senator on the U.S. role in yet another disastrous war in the Middle East, our ‘head-scratching' ties with Saudi Arabia, and the Khashoggi case, from Rolling Stone

The Great Land Swap Three years after India and Bangladesh exchanged exclaves to simplify the world’s most complex border, many who chose to move rather than to change their citizenship find that their prospects are not what they’d hoped, from Pacific Standard Magazine