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Senior Reporter . 2017 winner of National Magazine Awards for best reporting. Author of “American Prison” for Penguin Press.

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    Sep 18

    My new book, American Prison, is out today! It deals with my time undercover as a guard in a corporate-run prison in Louisiana and the history of for-profit incarceration from the American Revolution to the present. Check it out:

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  2. 10 hours ago

    It’s funny that we still use polls before elections like it ain’t no thing.

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  3. 15 hours ago

    Signs of the birth of a new anti-US insurgence in Syria.

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    The atmosphere is tense in after Basheer al-Howidi a tribe key-leader was assassinated in the city 2 days ago. SDF stands accuse for the responsibility for the assassination. The video of al-Howidi's funeral, where…
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  4. 17 hours ago

    Great piece.

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  5. 17 hours ago

    Fathers and Sons by is the best documentary I’ve seen in a long time. Derki posed as a jihadist and spent 2 1/2 years filming an al-Nusra family in Syria. The intimate portrayal of raising Al Qaeda children is incredible and heartbreaking.

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  6. 18 hours ago

    For eight years of Obama people treated militias like some kind of grown-up Boy Scouts. That’s eight years of paramilitary training.

    Right-wing militias are heading to the border, and almost nobody wants them there. The military is even warning of militia members stealing National Guard equipment.
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    Nov 3

    The revenue from Prop C would add $300 mil a year to SF’s homeless budget, doubling it. It would fund shelters, addiction treatment, health services, and homeless prevention programs. It was proposed by a local homelessness nonprofit that’s been working on policy for 31 years

    Prop c is the dumbest, least thought out prop ever. Please get the facts and vote no. Then lets all focus on real solutions for sf.
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    Nov 2

    This is outrageous. We've seen absolutely no proof that Roy Moore, Paul Manafort or Rob Porter are in the caravan.

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    Fox’s Jeanine Pirro has some questions for the caravan: “Who’s in that caravan? Are there pedophiles? Are there career criminals? Are there people who think they can beat their wives without consequence?”
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  9. Nov 2

    I still don’t know who Jacob Wohl is and this makes me feel like I’m working hard and v focused.

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  10. Nov 2

    Twitter, where authoritarians come to pat each other on the back.

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  11. Nov 2

    Let’s not get carried away and forget that Turkey imprisons more journalists than any country in the world.

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  12. Nov 2

    Code for: “Don’t trip Israel. Go ahead and shoot as many Palestinian protesters as you want.”

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    Oct 31

    Turkey suspects Jamal Khashoggi’s dismembered body may have been dissolved in acid. Biological evidence in the consulate garden supports this theory, a Turkish official tells

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    Nov 1

    Steve King blows up at questioner who pressed him on the Pittsburgh massacre

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  15. Nov 1

    US support of Saudi Arabia is a direct cause of mass starvation in Yemen. US support of Saudi Arabia is a direct cause of mass starvation in Yemen. US support of Saudi Arabia is a direct cause of mass starvation in Yemen.

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  16. Nov 1

    we live in the Information Age

    This meme needs to go more viral than anything has ever gone viral.
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    Nov 1

    The Syrian Democratic Forces and the US Army will start joint patrols between Kobane and Turkey from tomorrow on according to

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  18. Oct 31

    Forgot about this disgusting moment.

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    Hungary's top court acquits the camerawoman who was filmed tripping and kicking Syrian refugees at the Hungary-Serbia border in 2015.…
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  19. Oct 31

    Syrians have finally come together on one thing: hating Lana Dunham.

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  20. Oct 31

    Interesting piece on how Russian trolls got inside the conversation online.

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  21. Oct 31

    Who would’ve thought the 2018 form of white supremacy would be so idiotic.

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