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No Camera, No Case? A New York Trial Shows Itâs Hard to Prove Prison Abuse Without Video
Michael McCallion waited years to confront in court the officers he said attacked him in prison. The guards denied the assault ever happened.
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âWe Wish to Be Able to Singâ
For more than half a century, the people of Easter Island lived under an oppressive colonial regime. Then a schoolteacher sparked an unlikely revolution.
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Why Closing Prisons â Even Bad Ones â Is Complicated
From politics to economics, closing old or bad prisons is not always straightforward. Even some incarcerated people have mixed emotions.
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Fire in the Belly
Probing the way we overthink and underfeel our existence, Aboriginal scholar Tyson Yunkaporta urges us to attend to a vital intelligence beyond the cerebral: the fire in our gut.
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Why itâs so hard to warn people about flash floods
People usually only have hours of notice in advance. The disaster in Texas was a worst-case scenario.
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A Feast for Lost Souls
In Sinaloa, Mexico, women are recovering the bodies of missing loved onesâand cooking to keep memories of the dead alive.