Briefs
Maze of Poison, Part 1: Before You Leave the HouseBefore you walk out the door in the morning, you have already been exposed. The average person puts over 168 chemical ingredients on their body every…
Maze of Poison, Part 2: Banned There, Served HerePotassium bromate is banned in Europe, Canada, and China. It is in American bread. Same chemical, same bread, different country, different answer.
Maze of Poison, Part 3: Read the Tag"Wrinkle-free" usually means formaldehyde. "Stain-resistant" means forever chemicals. The tag tells you, in code.
Maze of Poison, Part 4: The Smell of CleanClean has no smell. What you're smelling is a cloud of chemicals, and almost none of them are on the label.
Maze of Poison, Part 5: Lights OutThe lights are off but your body thinks the sun never went down. The bulb, the screen, the router: the part of the maze you can't…
Maze of Poison, Part 6: Set the TableYou bought the organic eggs. Then you cooked them in a scratched nonstick pan and served them on painted plates. What you eat from matters as…
Maze of Poison, Part 7: The Price of PrettyThe EU has banned over 1,300 chemicals from cosmetics. The U.S. has banned about 11. The beauty aisle is counting on you never flipping the bottle…
Maze of Poison, Part 8: Every Breath, Every SipEvery breath and every sip passes through the maze first: chlorine in the shower steam, lead in the old pipes, fluoride in the glass.
Maze of Poison, Part 9: Side Effects May IncludeThe ad shows a sunny beach. The fine print lists liver damage, dependence, and suicidal thoughts. From opioids to acid blockers, the pills sold as relief…
Maze of Poison, Part 10: Where the Maze EndsIt looks like food. Inside, a lot of the nutrients are gone: drained from worn-out soil, locked up by the spray, and stripped on the way…
Owning the Human, Part 1: The BlueprintIn 1946, UNESCO's first director wrote that eugenics was politically impossible for now, so the public mind should be prepared until "much that now is unthinkable…
Owning the Human, Part 2: Patents on LifeJohn Moore's cells became a patented cell line, and the court said they were never his. From a bacterium in 1980 to genes, seeds and mRNA,…
Owning the Human, Part 3: The Body OnlineThe World Economic Forum's own paper describes sensors implanted in human bodies to "monitor, analyse and even modify human bodies and behaviour." Brain implants, newborn biometric…
- Paid to Take Them, Part 1: The Money Machine
Federal law pays states for foster care with no ceiling, caps the money that keeps families together, and pays a bonus for adoptions but not for…
- Paid to Take Them, Part 2: Inside the Care
The state takes custody to keep children safe. Part 2 of Paid to Take Them follows them inside: the Turpin siblings abused again, a $485 million…
- Paid to Take Them, Part 3: Your Rights at the Door
When CPS knocks, the Constitution still applies. Part 3 of Paid to Take Them covers what the courts say you have, the immunity that shields caseworkers,…
Scripted Reality, Part 1: Who Else Was in the Writers’ RoomBefore September 11, 2001, The Lone Gunmen and The Siege put events eerily similar to it on screen. This is the pattern it belongs to.
Sold Before You VoteIn House races, the candidate who spends more wins more than 90 percent of the time. How two court rulings created the super PAC, why the…
- The Attention Harvest, Part 1: The Slot Machine in Your Pocket
Facebook's first president said the platform was built to exploit a vulnerability in human psychology. How the apps hook you, what the brain scans and Meta's…
- The Attention Harvest, Part 2: They Already Know
The FTC called the data tech companies collect simply staggering. How the tracking works, what Cambridge Analytica and the $5 billion Facebook penalty proved, what is…
- The Attention Harvest, Part 3: The Silent Partner
The Director of National Intelligence told the Senate under oath it was not collecting data on millions of Americans. What Section 215, PRISM and purchased data…
The Door Was Always OpenIn 1967, dogs that learned nothing they did mattered lay down on the floor and took the shock, with the exit right in front of them.…
The Room Only Needs OneIn 1951, about 3 out of 4 people looked at 2 lines that plainly did not match and said they did, because the room said so.…
The Signal Never StoppedRun a tone through sand on a metal plate and it arranges itself into a pattern. Frequency does not just travel through matter. It organizes it,…