Weekly Recommended Reading
What it's like working for Sinclair, how Trump got on the Forbes 400 list, and more
She Tried To Report On Climate Change. Sinclair Told Her To Be More “Balanced.” For three years, Suri Crowe worked for a TV station owned by Sinclair. She clashed with management — including over stories about climate change and guns, from BuzzFeed
Trump lied to me about his wealth to get onto the Forbes 400. Here are the tapes, from The Washington Post
‘They Were Never Going to Let Me Be President' Covering Hillary Clinton's campaign from before it started to the very last moment, from The New York Times
Framed for Murder By His Own DNA We leave traces of our genetic material everywhere, even on things we've never touched. That got Lukis Anderson charged with a brutal crime he didn't commit, from The Marshall Project
The Delay After an 11-year-old Navajo girl was kidnapped, her family and friends sprang into action to find her. Why did it take so long for law enforcement to join them? from Esquire
An Anti-Immigration Speech Divided Britain 50 Years Ago. It Still Echoes Today, from NPR
- 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