A ‘Juvenile Lifer’ Comes Home From Prison
Haywood “Red Dog” Fennell was finishing up work for the day, headed back to his cell at Pennsylvania’s largest-capacity prison, when a friend called him over, eager to share the news that had lit up the…
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Radio Atlantic: The Heir – The Atlantic
Subscribe to Radio Atlantic: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher (How to Listen)Begun with a gold-rush brothel in the Yukon, the Trump empire has long been passed down through generations. Donald Trump inherited a business from his…
Private Equity’s Grip on Jail Health Care
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.—In the span of 24 days in May 2017, two men died in Forsyth County’s jail. Both were fathers. Both were black. The first man, Deshawn Lamont Coley, had written request after request…
Medicaid Debt Can Cost You Your House
Images above: Tawanda Rhodes believed she would inherit the home her parents had bought in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood in 1979. Then she received a letter from her state’s Medicaid program. The…
Can Thomas Abt’s ‘Bleeding Out’ Curb Gun Violence?
On a chilly evening in early May, Mitchell Thomas, a Buffalo, New York, police lieutenant, pulled his patrol car away from an East Side district station to lead a three-vehicle caravan on an…
TK: The Politics Daily – The Atlantic
In some ways, the last election of 2018 has become the first election of 2020.How Tuesday shakes out will answer a key question for Democrats and Republicans hungry to notch a win and shape a victorious narrative as other 2020 elections…
The Office of Missing Children: A Story of Family Separation
“I was home when I saw two vans pull up. They opened the van, and out came the kids. They were all walking in a line. I don’t know what’s actually going on in there. I hope they’re okay.”When a…
Coastal Northeast, Atlantic Canada next in line for Dorian’s impacts
Sept. 6 -- Residents of the coastal Northeast are the next in line to feel the disruptive effects from Dorian even as the hurricane lurks offshore.
Dorian is forecast to pass within 160 miles of Nantucket, Mass., and make landfall in…
Sexual Assault in the Military Is Rampant—And Rising
“Duck and cover!” a mechanized voice screamed. The ground shook and the window rattled. I rolled from my bed to the floor of my trailer and felt for the armor I’d forgotten in my office. I lay there and…
Do Algorithms Have a Place in Policing?
Inside the bright-white walls of his office, in one of Los Angeles’s poorest neighborhoods, Hamid Khan is a calming presence. Khan, 62 years old, is the founding organizer of the Stop LAPD Spying…