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How A Private Surveillance Firm Watching Standing Rock Spread Fear To Keep...

As law enforcement began evicting residents of North Dakota’s Oceti Sakowin camp, the private security company reached for ways to stay in business.

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Uber But For Workers' Comp: Company's Plan Neglects Injured Drivers

A copy of a pilot Uber insurance plan shows relatively flimsy, cheap protection against on-the-job injuries.

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How The Pentagon Uses 'Jeopardy' To Train Its Special Operations Forces

At Joint Special Operations University, soldiers are trained with an interactive video game that uses knockoffs of "Jeopardy" and "$25,000 Pyramid." It's kind of lame.

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Facebook’s Tough-On-Terror Talk Overlooks White Extremists

The social network has detailed its fight against jihadist groups but has nothing to say about domestic radical groups.

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Republican Lawmakers Buy Health Insurance Stocks As Repeal Effort Moves Forward

Just as the House Republican bill to slash much of the Affordable Care Act moved forward, some lawmakers started trading health care stocks.

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He Fought Against ISIS And Almost Got Killed. Now He's Facing Charges Of...

Josh Walker went to Syria to fight ISIS. When he returned home to Britain, he faced a legal quandary that could put him in prison for 10 years.

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The Cost Of Liberation

The cost of rolling back ISIS in Iraq — and particularly Mosul — has been staggering.

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Financial Advisers Want To Rip Off Small Investors. Trump Wants To Help Them...

The fiduciary rule, designed to protect investors from predatory advisers, went in effect on June 9. Now the financial industry aims to kill it.

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The Incredible Lost History Of The Civil Rights Movement's Economic Agenda

With enormous amounts of effort, political movements can break social silence and force what truly matters onto the agenda of the whole country. Doing that with the Federal Reserve was one of the key...

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100,000 Pages Of Chemical Industry Secrets Gathered Dust In An Oregon Barn...

For decades, some of the dirtiest, darkest secrets of the chemical industry have been kept in Carol Van Strum’s barn.

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Koch Brothers Orchestrate Grassroots Effort To Lower Corporate Taxes,...

The billionaire brothers' political network has plans to plant questions at town halls and seize on Trump's receptiveness to corporate tax cuts.

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How Do Chicago Police Treat Mental Health? With SWAT Raids

Funded by the feds for counterterrorism, Chicago’s militarized police are instead turned loose on the city’s most vulnerable.

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These Are The Technology Firms Lining Up To Build Trump's 'Extreme Vetting'...

ICE's Homeland Security Investigations division hosted an "industry day" for technology companies interested in building a new tool for "extreme vetting."

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How American Libertarians Are Remaking Latin American Politics

The Atlas Network has spent decades building up libertarian institutions across Latin America. Now the work is paying off.

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The Sordid Double Life Of Washington's Most Powerful Ambassador

Yousef al-Otaiba, the UAE's influential ambassador to Washington, led a hard-partying life that eventually collided with his professional world.

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Undercover In North Korea: 'All Paths Lead To Catastrophe'

The Intercept spoke recently to Suki Kim about her time as an undercover investigative reporter in North Korea and the insight it gives her on the current crisis.

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The Unlikely Jihadi

The FBI pressured a lonely young man into a bomb plot. Now he’s serving life in prison.

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NSA Broke The Encryption On File-Sharing Apps Kazaa And eDonkey

The spy agency didn’t care about copyright violations; it was trying to determine if it could find valuable intelligence.

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How The NSA Built A Secret Surveillance Network For Ethiopia

Amid concerns about Ethiopia's human rights abuses, the NSA forged a secret relationship with the country that expanded exponentially over the years.

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How Trump's Top Economic Adviser Wrecked The Economy With Goldman Sachs

At Goldman Sachs, Gary Cohn nearly wrecked the economy. As Trump's top economic adviser, he's dismantling the rules put in place after the financial crisis.

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