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2+ week, 4+ day ago   (373+ words) Did a trench coat-wearing dog’s catchy anti-drug anthems actually work? McGruff the Crime Dog arrived on the scene at the dawn of the 1980s, just as a firehose of anti-drug PSAs was inundating the youth of America. These messages didn’t always…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (716+ words) The United States rarely executes women, no matter how gruesome their crimes. In fact, only 18 women have been put to death in this country in the past 50 years. That translates to around 1 percent of the executions carried out in that…...

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3+ week, 2+ day ago   (123+ words) The popular “contract-trading platforms” have election workers worried about our electoral system - and their lives. Hundreds of millions of dollars, desperation for insider info, fury and accusations of conspiracy when it doesn’t go your way—is this gambling or elections?...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (220+ words) Emily, John, and David top off the summer by answering listeners’ questions of all kinds. This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz answer listeners’ questions of all kinds: the political, the personal, and everything in-between. Many thanks to…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (99+ words) Jill Lepore on how to fight back. Our Silicon Valley overlords, as they’ll tell you, aren’t huge fans of liberal democracy—and their products that we’ve integrated into our lives reflect that. As we rely on them more and more,…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (976+ words) It wasn’t the ideas that were the problem. It was the execution. I need to acknowledge up front that it is unwise for anybody—including me—to deduce any comprehensive conclusions about the Democratic Party and where it’s headed from…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (210+ words) To understand today’s Supreme Court, you need to understand Neil Gorsuch. Our friends over at the Slate podcast Slow Burn are good at taking events that we think are settled history, then unlocking a new understanding of those stories through…...

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