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Media
How local journalists proved a 10-year-old’s abortion wasn’t a hoax (The Washington Post) Related podcast episode
The Post at a crossroads: Existential questions in a dire season for news (The Washington Post)
The new journalism — and the PR firms behind it (The Washington Post)
Bellingcat breaks stories that newsrooms envy — using methods newsrooms avoid (The Washington Post)
How a wacky Instagram account became a go-to news source (The Washington Post)
Podcasts
Hope and fear: Dispatches from Iran
Inside the covert abortion pill pipeline
How Trump narrowly escaped a cash crunch
How AI is changing dating
Fear, confusion, resistance: One night under Trump’s D.C. crackdown
The ‘Caitlin Clark’ effect and the rise of the WNBA
He’s dying of cancer. They chose to start their family.
Labubus: China’s plushy, soft power tool
Filmed interviews
How to launch a second act in life, with comedian Zarna Garg (Post Reports)
Kathryn Bigelow on ‘A House of Dynamite’ and the nuclear ‘elephant in the room’ (Post Reports)
Weekly politics roundtable (Post Reports)
Banned In The U.S.A. – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Washington Post Live)
The role of identity politics in a divided America (PBS Cascade)
Maui fires
After the Maui fires took Carole, her people honored her on the water (The Washington Post)
Maui’s neglected grasslands caused Lahaina fire to grow with deadly speed (The Washington Post)
Podcast: Where does Maui go from here? (The Washington Post)
Healing after the Maui fire starts with a surfboard(The Washington Post)Related podcast episode
Culture/comedy
The quiet brilliance of Kenan Thompson(The Washington Post)
The new rock stars: Inside today’s golden age of comedy (The Washington Post)
Inside the writers room with Seth Meyers: How to make late-night TV in the Trump era (The Washington Post)
How Charlie Wilson reclaimed his golden voice after nearly losing everything (The Washington Post)
Comedian Ramy Youssef is still figuring out life as a Muslim millennial. So he made a show about it. (The Washington Post)
Politics/policy
Black Lives Matter and America’s long history of resisting civil rights protesters (The Washington Post)
Thomas Jefferson and the fascinating history of Founding Fathers defending Muslim rights(The Washington Post)
The Complex Life of Border Towns (National Journal)
How Democrats Are Aiming to Make Texas a Swing State (National Journal)
Breaking news
Video shows Cleveland officer shooting 12-year-old Tamir Rice within seconds (The Washington Post)
National Archives agents raid home of Leslie Waffen, former archives department head (TBD.com)
Series
Division of Labor: Exploring D.C.’s Unemployment Disparities (WAMU 88.5)
Fractured Pipeline: Recession slows local cash flow to El Salvador (The Gazette/Washington Post)
First person/humor
A second-by-second breakdown of Kendall Jenner’s unspeakably tone-deaf Pepsi ad (The Washington Post)
Mister Rogers was America’s teacher. I know because he taught me English. (The Washington Post)
No Country For Hairy Women (xoJane)
Elahe Izadi 