How North Americans’ lust for tropical pets drives a tragic trade in smuggled birds.
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More Fraudulent Than a Speeding Locomotive
How the transcontinental railroad’s construction was the biggest scam of the gilded age.
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It’s Still Roy Cohn’s World, And You’re Living in It
The rotten legacy of the Red Scare proponent, corrupt lawyer, and mentor to Donald Trump.
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Orcas Are Swimming Towards Extinction
Overfishing, pollution, and urban development are causing the Resident Orca population in the Pacific Northwest to plummet.
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The Life of Gad Beck: Gay. Jewish. Nazi Fighter.
Gad was just ten when the Nazis seized power, and spent the war providing for Jews living underground in Berlin.
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Drag Balls of the Civil War
Queerness has always existed—even on the Civil War battlefield.
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It’s 2018, and Gay Men Still Can’t Give Blood in America
The 2016 Orlando Pulse Nightclub shooting was a horrific attack on the queer community. And the ban on blood donations from gay men meant many LGBT people couldn’t help out in the only way they could.
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