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Why was the EPA willing to move on Flint and not in Washington County? The difference was public versus private water. If there had been forty houses below that leaking pond, and if Stacey, Beth, and Buzz relied on public water, which, unlike their private wells, was subject to regulation, then they’d have a winning criminal case.

Eliza Griswold • Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America

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Kelly McBride, “Jill Abramson Startup to Advance Writers up to $100k for Longform Work,” Poynter Media Wire, November 2, 2014, http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/278851/jill-abramson-startup-to-advance-writers-up-to-100k-for-longform-work/.

Leslie F. Stebbins • Finding Reliable Information Online: Adventures of an Information Sleuth

She had left her home country of Italy after speaking out against former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Her agent there had sent her to one of his “Bunga Bunga” parties in 2010, and she became a witness against him when he was tried for abuse of power and having sex with a minor.

Amy Odell • Weinstein Accuser Ambra Gutierrez Takes on the Modeling Industry

“For the last twenty years, until recently, Jhumpa Lahiri’s stories were the template of ethnic fiction that supports the fantasy of Asian American immigrants as compliant strivers. The fault lies not in Lahiri herself, who I think is an absorbing storyteller, but in the publishing industry that used to position her books as the “single story” on i

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The paper served as a primer on the administration’s foreign

Michael B. Oren • Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide

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