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Critical Metals
The Mining Industry’s Next Frontier Is Deep, Deep Under the Sea
Companies are diving to the bottom to scoop up metals essential for our EV-driven future. But how much ocean are we willing to sacrifice?
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The Surprisingly Lucrative Business of Recycled E-Waste
In Nigeria and elsewhere, entrepreneurs are making money by dismantling electronics—and sending valuable metals back to the developed world.
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From environmental harm to child labor, the metals in your gadgets cost far more than the sale price.
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Sand Crisis
Sand is the essential ingredient that makes modern life possible. And we are starting to run out.
Development and industrial demand are stripping shorelines of sand, and replenishing them is ever more costly.
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From Cambodia to California, industrial-scale sand mining is causing wildlife to die, local trade to wither and bridges to collapse. And booming urbanisation means the demand for this increasingly valuable resource is unlikely to let up.
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Rapid urbanisation has made an ordinary commodity suddenly precious: sand. As cities continue to voraciously need concrete, glass and asphalt, illegal sand mining has sparked a global wave of gang violence
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Criminal Justice
Vancouver pioneered liberal drug policies. Fentanyl destroyed them
So-called harm-reduction measures have become a rod for Justin Trudeau’s back.
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The Lion, the Polygamist, and the Biofuel Scam
How a member of a breakaway Mormon sect teamed up with a Lambo-driving, hard-partying tycoon to bilk the government for hundreds of millions of dollars.
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How a Former Bank Robber Saved Her Football Star Son from a System Unkind to the Mentally Ill
Antonio Carrion was headed for the NFL when the voices started and he drifted away. Then his estranged mother finished her time for robbery and saved his life.
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The War Vet, the Dating Site, and the Phone Call From Hell
Jared Johns found out too late that swapping messages with the pretty girl from a dating site would mean serious trouble. If only he had known who she really was.
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Prescription for Death
How painkillers destroyed the town of War, West Virginia
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The Cruelest Prison
Is “supermaximum” Pelican Bay State Prison a breeding ground for insanity?
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Kids Locked Up for Life
Should juvenile offenders be sentenced to life in prison?
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Lethal Sting
How the War on Drugs Killed a College Student
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The Ultimate Forgiveness
What motivates people who befriend the murderer of someone they loved?
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Obama’s Drug Past Isn’t Hurting Him – But Thousands Aren’t So Lucky
Many currently incarcerated for drug use are no different than the young Barack Obama, or millions of other Americans like him — curious kids experimenting with intoxicants for kicks.
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A brilliant but troubled CalTech student may have been convicted of a crime he didn’t commit.
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Meet Dianne Clements, the soccer mom who has done as much as anyone to ensure that Texas’ killing chamber remains the nation’s busiest.
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Debt to Society: The Real Price of Prisons | How We Got to Two Million
How did the Land of the Free become the world’s leading jailer?
(This was an investigative package which I edited and produced. I also wrote the keystone article, How We Got to Two Million.)
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Boyz on the Rez
American Indian gangs
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A new niche market: private prisons for the elderly
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How dozens of men and women were exonerated from death row
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American companies are tapping a new labor force – convicts
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Social Issues
L.A. to Nepal
America’s first responders, California Task Force Two goes to the rescue wherever disaster strikes around the world.
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Farrakhan Talks to the Jews
An exclusive interview with the Nation of Islam leader
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Lost Vegas
Before there was the Strip, there was Fremont Street.
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The Next Bosnia?
Macedonia on the brink
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Let’s Make a Deal
Cuba tentatively opens up to capitalism.
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When Duty Calls
Young Turks are dodging the draft in record numbers.
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A Paper Trail of Tears
How casino-rich tribes are dealing members out
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Next Year in Warsaw
Why Are Jews Returning To One of the World’s Most Anti-Semitic Nations?
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How the Rabbi Got AIDS
Sex and secrecy in the Orthodox community
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Technology
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Deadly Weapon
In prisons across America, convicts are using smuggled cell phones to run gangs, plan escapes, even order hits on witnesses. These guys may be in solitary, but they know where your family
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How Do You Train Astronauts When You Don’t Have Any Spaceships?
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Baghdad, USA
Roadside bombs. Hostile insurgents. 1,200 extras in Arab dress. Welcome to Louisiana and the Army camp known as the Box, where the violence is fake but the fear is for real.
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Finding Water from Outer Space
A globe-trotting geologist uses satellites to find water under some of the world’s thirstiest places.
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Space Invader
Robert Bigelow made a fortune from his hotel chain, Budget Suites. Now he wants to launch a network of inflatable, modular space pods into orbit. Uses: Research, tourism…and making contact with aliens.
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TV Shoutouts:
Jeopardy: Double Jeopardy, Andy Wood Day 3 – 3rd Daily Double (11/18/20)
Samantha Bee: SAND: The Sexiest Topic We’ve Ever Covered
John Oliver: Deep-Sea Mining: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
