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How Riley Gaines went from a college swimmer to MAGA’s Regina George Plus: In Alabama, it’s illegal to help someone leave the state for an abortion. These activists are fighting for the right to help. View in browser | Support our newsroom …

Trump’s cuts to public media could spell deadly consequences for rural America Plus: Incarcerated journalist John J. Lennon examines how our fixation on crime capitalizes on tragedy and turns it into entertainment. View in browser | Support our newsroom …

How a Mississippi jail turned its inmates into weapons Plus: The Rev. Jeff Hood talks about how his racial justice activism led him inside execution chambers for the final moments of inmates’ lives. View in browser | Support our newsroom …

I study fascism. I’ve already fled America. Plus: A “Goon Squad” of Mississippi sheriff’s deputies spent years brutalizing people until their reign of terror was exposed. View in browser | Support our newsroom Suppo…

America had a Black president. Then came the whitelash. We revisit an attack on civilians by Marines during the Iraq War that sparked a war crimes trial, but in the end, no one was held accountable. View in browser | Support our newsroom …

Our serious investigation into some deeply unserious questions Al Letson travels to DC to speak with No Kings protesters about their fears of authoritarianism under Trump and the future of our democracy. View in browser | Support our newsroom …

We discovered a secret archive that exposed a vast surveillance empire Environmentalist Bill McKibben examines how the remarkable rise of solar power could (finally) begin to slow climate change. View in browser | Support our newsroom …