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Endangered Republican Falsely Claims He Hasn’t Taken NRA Money Recently

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The Senate Just Passed a Sweeping Opioid Bill. It’s Still Not Nearly Enough.

Critics consider it a Band-Aid for a crisis that killed some 72,000 Americans last year.

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Today It Locks Up Immigrants. But CoreCivic’s Roots Lie in the Brutal Past of America’s Prisons.
September/October 2018 Issue

The Bizarre Fad Diet Taking the Far Right by Storm
September 7, 2018

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Bruce Jackson

Shockingly Candid Photos Of Life on a 1970s Arkansas Prison Farm

“Just about everyone carrying a gun was a convict.”

Photographs by Bruce Jackson