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At the Border in 2024

Lillian Perlmutter / Truthdig Mar 25, 2024 A decade of anti-immigrant rhetoric and unstable, post-pandemic conditions in the Global South have coalesced into a multibillion-dollar, election-year battle to keep poor people in Latin America from accessing the United States. This Dig series seeks to explore: What is it like to traverse this landscape as a migrant, and what would it look like if we opened it all up? Dig deeper

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A Slow-Rolling Disaster in Fracking Country

Justin Nobel / Truthdig Dec 7, 2023 Ex-employees at “West Virginia’s Chernobyl” speak out on lethal cancers, regulatory failure and contaminated drinking water. Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )

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Rojava’s Improvised Revolution

Matt Broomfield / Truthdig Oct 9, 2023 How the Middle East’s most progressive society survives in the face of catastrophe. Dig deeper ( 16 Min. Read )

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Inside West Virginia’s Chernobyl

Justin Nobel / Truthdig Sep 18, 2023 The radioactive dangers of oilfield waste have long been known by the oil and gas industry.  Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )

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The Farce of Microsoft’s Anti-Racism and the Capture of Academia

Michael Kwet / Truthdig Apr 17, 2023 In recent years, most large tech corporations have begun pushing anti-racism public relations and touting their donations to Black causes. There is no company more steeped or skilled in this practice than the elder of the group, Microsoft. By deploying fleets of flacks, messaging professionals and hired intellectuals, the company has managed to maintain a pristine image as a “moral leader” of Big Tech, while avoiding and deflecting attention from its deep and sordid history of collaboration with police, prisons, intelligence agencies and militaries. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

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Eviction on the Installment Plan

Daniel Elkind / Truthdig Feb 27, 2023 Across the country, people and families priced out of the real estate market are turning to temporary housing built to shelter traveling workers. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

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The Deadly Battle Over Land and Water in Honduras

Jared Olson / Truthdig Feb 17, 2023 In rural Honduras, the Guapinol water defenders movement struggles against devastating industrial construction and increasingly heavily armed private security and paramilitary groups. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )

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Growing List of Fracking Concerns Now Includes Radioactivity

Justin Nobel / Truthdig Jan 9, 2023 Industry documents and new research suggests the natural gas pipeline system emits significant amounts of radioactivity. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

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Mexico’s War Against Migrants

Dawn Paley / Truthdig Nov 14, 2022 Andrés Manuel López Obrador campaigned on a promise to humanize migrant policy in Mexico and Central America. What happened? Dawn Paley investigates. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )