Sales Practices of the Nation’s Biggest Title Lender

Margaret Coker, The Current Pro Publica
Former TitleMax store managers told ProPublica and The Current about how they were trained to keep customers unaware of the true costs of their title pawns. When they were more transparent, they faced repercussions.

Hanging Mohsen on the Gallows

Majid Naficy
The Persian poet Majid Naficy still awakens at night, mourning friends and family, victims of the Iranian regime.

ARGENTINA, 1985 | Movie

A team of lawyers takes on the heads of Argentina's bloody military dictatorship during the 1980s in a battle against odds and a race against time.

The Other Big Lie

Mother Jones video journalist Garrison Hayes and essayist Anthony Conwright examine the white grievance on display at the January 6 insurrection and trace it to the suppression of Black civil rights in the post-Civil War period.

Life And Death 3,000,000 Years Ago

What was life and death like for some of our earliest ancestors, like famed australopith  Lucy, who lived almost three million years ago?

How To Read the Communist Manifesto

James Robins The New Republic
The novelist China Miéville aims to show that Marx’s words remain just as vital as when they were first hastily composed.

The Science (and Business) Behind COVID-19 Disinformation

Katelyn Jetelina Your Local Epdemiologist
Covid-19 disinformation is coordinated, effective, lucrative, and costs lives. This is true during the pandemic and it will be true for other public health problems. It’s a public health and biosecurity threat. And we need to treat it like one.