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Under the skin of ICIJ’s Implant Files
In 2014, Jet Schouten and her colleagues at AVROTROS, a public broadcaster in the Netherlands, embarked on an intricate undercover operation. Their aim was to show how easy it can be to get medical devices onto the market in Europe, and, consequently, inside patients’ bodies. Schouten came up with a fake product, made from the...
Barbed wire, and other terms for how the US is fortifying the Mexican border
The United States has been fortifying its southern border against the “caravan” of migrants from Central American nations, mostly by stringing sharp wire along the existing fence. But just what have they been using? Reuters called it “barbed wire.” The Los Angeles Times has called it “concertina wire” and “razor wire.” The Associated Press covered...
What I’ve learned from two years trying to shift narratives about the South
A month after Donald Trump was elected president, my fellowship at a magazine ended and I moved from Colorado back home to Kentucky to report on the American South. Seen from afar through the national media’s lens, the place I love seemed sorely misunderstood and misrepresented. The entire region was dubbed “Trump country”—a title some...
The many uses of the term ‘asylum’
Earliest this month, we discussed the use of articles and how they can sometimes change the meaning of something. That’s the case with a word much in the news these days: “asylum.” See how a two-letter article changes the meaning of a sentence: “That woman needs asylum.” “That woman needs an asylum.” As the so-called...
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Seventy-two years ago, I worked the paper route on the west side of Montgomery, Alabama, delivering the Alabama Journal to my neighbors, who were mostly African American. One afternoon, in 1946, I met, and would eventually befriend, the son of my...
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