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A History Of Opioids In America By Ramtin Arablouei and Rund Abdelfatah (NPR)
About 13m US children are living below the poverty line, rights group reveals By Chris McGreal (The Guardian)
Aid to Needy Often Excludes the Poorest in America By Patricia Cohen (The New York Times)
Alaska's Trumpian Governor Just Threatened the Health of the Entire State By Sam Davenport (VICE)
America has an infant mortality crisis. Meet the black doulas trying to change that By Nina Lakhani (The Guardian)
American Dreams: Visions of a successful life in the U.S. and abroad (The Atlantic)
Americans and Their Discontent: A Timeline of Government Mistrust (NPR)
American Time Use Survey - U.S. Department of Labor
America’s Health Rankings (United Health Foundation)
America's Poorest Towns (The Guardian - Four Part Series)
A Night at the Garden (POV - PBS)
Are You Rich? Where Does Your Net Worth Rank in America? (The New York Times)
A U.S. Army Tweet Asking 'How Has Serving Impacted You?' Got An Agonizing Response By Stacey Samuel and Shannon Van Sant (NPR)
A Vision Shared: the photographers who captured the Great Depression By Simon Bowcock (The Guardian)
A Woman’s Rights: In Eight Parts (The New York Times)
Beneath Cities, a Decaying Tangle of Gas Pipes By Patrick McGeehan, Russ Buettner, and David W. Chen (The New York Times)
Brennan Center for Justice
By Belief and Party Divided (The Washington Spectator)
Center for International Policy
Compare These Gun Death Rates: The U.S. Is in a Different World By Kevin Quealy and Margot Sanger-Katz (The New York Times)
Concentrated Markets Take Big Toll on Economy By Eduardo Porter (The New York Times)
Corruption is Legal in America (Represent.Us on YouTube)
Crisis Point: The State of Literacy in America By The Room 241 Team (A Blog by Concordia University-Portland)
Delbanco Writes About Americans' Complicity With Slavery In His Latest Book By Steve Inskeep (NPR)
Denmark's free 'baby hotels' By Antoaneta Roussi and Matteo Lonardi (BBC)
‘Duck Dynasty’ vs. ‘Modern Family’: 50 Maps of the U.S. Cultural Divide By Josh Katz (The New York Times)
11 Years Old, a Mom, and Pushed to Marry Her Rapist in Florida By Nicholas Kristof (The New York Times)
Even Among the Richest of the Rich, Fortunes Diverge By Annie Lowrey (The New York Times)
'Families were devastated': looking back on the Great Depression via art By Nadja Sayej (The Guardian)
Finland's unique baby boxes (BBC)
For Americans Seeking Affordable Degrees, German Schools Beckon By Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson (NPR)
For a radical new perspective on immigration, picture the US as an ancient tree — Art and Design: Pedro M Cruz, Steve Costa; Research: John Wihbey, Avni Ghael, Felipe Shibuya (Aeon)
40 Years Of Income Inequality In America, In Graphs By Quoctrung Bui (NPR)
Four in 10 Americans Embrace Some Form of Socialism By Mohamed Younis (Gallup)
Government Ethics In The Trump Administration (NPR)
Guns v grief: inside America’s deadliest cultural chasm By Stephen Marche (The Guardian)
Hello Goodbye: The author of a best-selling abstinence manifesto is reconsidering the lessons he taught to millions By Ruth Graham (Slate)
He was a Yale graduate, Wall Street banker and entrepreneur. Today he's homeless in Los Angeles By Dan Simon (CNN)
How America’s food giants swallowed the family farms By Chris McGreal (The Guardian)
How Does Your State Make Electricity? By Nadja Popovich (The New York Times)
How Every Member Got to Congress By Sahil Chinoy and Jessia Ma (The New York Times)
How the US stole thousands of Native American children By Ranjani Chakraborty (Vox)
How Think About Climate Change, in Six Maps By Nadja Popovich, John Schwartz and Tatiana Schilossberg (The New York Times)
How this women-run startup is revolutionizing the fashion industry (Fast Company)
‘I’m gonna lose everything’ By Annie Gowen (The Washington Post)
In Kentucky, Health Law Helps Voters but Saps Votes By Abby Goodnough (The New York Times) 
Income inequality is rising so fast our data can’t keep up By Christopher Ingraham (The Washington Post)
Income Gap, Meet the Longevity Gap By Annie Lowrey (The New York Times)
In San Francisco, Making a Living From Your Billionaire Neighbor’s Trash By Thomas Fuller (The New York Times)
Inside One Native Tribe's Decades-Long Fight for Recognition By Gabriel Furshong (Pacific Standard)
Inside Trump’s Cruel Campaign Against the U.S.D.A.’s Scientists By Michael Lewis (Vanity Fair)
Inside Wisconsin’s Disastrous $4.5 Billion Deal With Foxconn By Austin Carr (Bloomberg BusinessWeek)
International Human Development Indicators
Investigating The USDA’s Silence On Climate Change (Science Friday)
It’s easy to become obese in America. These 7 charts explain why. By Eliza Barclay, Julia Belluz, and Javier Zarracina (Vox)
Laid off and owed pay: the Kentucky miners blocking coal trains By Michael Sainato (The Guardian)
Life And Debt: Searching For A Million-Dollar Miracle By Jeffrey Young (HuffPost)
Life in One of the Whitest Towns in America By Logan Jaffe and ProPublica Illinois (The Atlantic)
Live Cultural Map Over Time 1981-2015 (World Values Survey)
Make Mine Freedom (1948)
Mapping Out The Revolving Door Between Gov't And Big Business In Venn Diagrams (Tech Dirt)
Mapping Stereotypes (Alpha Designer)
Measure of America: American Human Development Project
My Husband And I Thought Education Was A Way Out Of Poverty. Now We’re $718,000 In Debt. By Rachel Bevel (HuffPost)
National Ethics Project (Stanford University)
One Nation Under Stress: the documentary lifting the lid on American anxiety By Amanda Holpuch (The Guardian)
The everything town in the middle of nowhere By Josh Dzieza (The Verge)
The Opportunity Atlas
Profitable Giants Like Amazon Pay $0 in Corporate Taxes. Some Voters Are Sick of It. By Stephanie Saul and Patricia Cohen (The New York Times)
Purdue Pharma taps a Gilded Age history of pharmaceutical fraud By Jonathan S. Jones (The Conversation)
Quiz: Let Us Predict Whether You’re a Democrat or a Republican By Sahil Chinoy (The New York Times)
Ranking America: A site for information about the U.S.
Rating a Health Law’s Success By Larry Buchanan, Hannah Fairfield and Karen Yourish
Reliance on the Safety Net Rises (The New York Times)
Report Card for America's Infrastructure
Researchers say there’s a simple way to reduce suicides: Increase the minimum wage By Andrew Van Dam (The Washington Post)
Rushing to Cater to America’s Rich By Hiroko Tabuchi (The New York Times)
Since Parkland
State of Working America Wages 2018 By Elise Gould (Economic Policy Institute)
Study: Americans Don't Know The Facts On U.S. Issues (Here and Now)
Study looks at where the IRS audits more and less By Kai Ryssdal (Marketplace)
The 'Affluenza' Defense: An interview with John de Graaf (NPR)
The American Dream - The Hedgehog Review
The American Lawn By RadioWest (Aeon)
The anti-gay extremist behind America's fiercely strict abortion bans By Jessica Glenza (The Guardian)
The Cancer Capital of America By Suzanne Zuppello (The Outline)
The Christian Withdrawal Experiment By Emma Green (The Atlantic)
The Creeping Capitalist Takeover of Higher Education By Kevin Carey (HuffPost)
The end of the line. Photo essay By Latoya Ruby Frazier Text By Dan Kaufman (The New York Times)
The False Hope of a Limited Government, Built on Tax Breaks By Eduardo Porter (The New York Times)
The Geography of Government Benefits (The New York Times)
The Great US History Battle By Cory Turner (NPR)
The Life of an American Boy at 17 By Jennifer Percy (Esquire)
The media are complacent while the world burns By Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope (Columbia Journalism Review)
The night thousands of Nazis packed Madison Square Garden for a rally — and violence erupted By Diane Bernard (The Washington Post)
The 99% Is a Myth—Here's How It Breaks Down (The Atlantic)
The Numbers Add Up To This: Less And Less Opportunity For Poor Kids By Marilyn Geewax (NPR)
The Opioid Epidemic Misunderstood By Raymond Barglow (Skeptic)
‘There’s something terribly wrong’: Americans are dying young at alarming rates By Joel Achenbach (The Washington Post)
There were nearly a million black farmers in 1920. Why have they disappeared? By Summer Sewell (The Guardian)
The risk of lead poisoning isn’t just in Flint. So we mapped the risk in every neighborhood in America. By Sarah Frostenson and Sarah Kliff (Vox)
The Role of Women’s Anger in Trump’s America By Michele Weldon (Pacific Standard)
The Secret Shame of Middle-Class Americans By Neal Gabler (The Atlantic)
The state of our union is … dumber: How the linguistic standard of the presidential address has declined (The Guardian)
The strangers who have babies together Video by Vittoria Traverso and Jake Robbins (BBC)
The $2.7 Trillion Medical Bill: Colonoscopies Explain Why U.S. Leads the World in Health Expenditures By Elisabeth Rosenthal (The New York Times)
The U.S. Suicide Rate Is at Its Highest in a Half-Century By Jared Keller (Pacific Standard)
These Are the World’s Healthiest Nations By Lee J Miller and Wei Lu (Bloomberg)
The terrible numbers that grow with each mass shooting By Bonnie Berkowitz, Denise Lu and Chris Alcantara (The Washington Post)
They Want It to Be Secret: How a Common Blood Test Can Cost $11 or Almost $1,000 By Margot Sanger-Katz (The New York Times)
3 TVs and No Food: Growing Up Poor in America By Nicholas Kristof (The New York Times)
Thousands of immigrants suffer in solitary confinement in U.S. detention centers By Hannah Rappleye, Andrew W. Lehren, Spencer Woodman, Vanessa Swales and Maryam Saleh (NBC News)
Trump Says the U.S. Is ‘Full.’ Much of the Nation Has the Opposite Problem. By Neil Irwin and Emily Badger (The New York Times)
12 Months. Nearly 1,200 Kids Killed By Guns. By by Akoto Ofori-Atta (The Trace)
U.S. Is a Rich Country With Symptoms of a Developing Nation By Noah Smith (Bloomberg)
U.S. life expectancy declines again, a dismal trend not seen since World War I By Lenny Bernstein (The Washington Post)
'We’re just waiting to die': the black residents living on top of a toxic landfill site By Lauren Zanolli (The Guardian)
'We're not a dump' – poor Alabama towns struggle under the stench of toxic landfills By Oliver Milman (The Guardian)
What Happened to America’s Political Center of Gravity By Sahil Chinoy (The New York Times)
What If America Had Canada's Healthcare System? By Olga Khazan (The Atlantic)
When 20,000 American Nazis Descended Upon New York City Video By Marshall Curry (The Atlantic)
Where Are the Hardest Places to Live in the U.S.? By The Upshot (The New York Times)
Where you live in America determines when you’ll die By Frank Jacobs (Big Think)
Which Countries Are Best At Preventing Low Birth Weight? Which Need To Do More? By Michaeleen Doucleff (NPR)
Which US states make it hardest to vote? By Ankita Rao, Erum Salam, and Juweek Adolphe (The Guardian)
Why an Heiress Spent Her Fortune Trying to Keep Immigrants Out By Nicholas Kulish and Mike McIntire (The New York Times)
Why do one in five home health aides live in poverty? By Milli Legrain (The Guardian)
Why Louisianans blame government, not corporations, for pollution problems By Paul Solman (PBS NewsHour)
Why the U.S. can’t replicate Finland’s educational success By Kevin Dickinson (Big Think)
'You can't win': the parents working full-time – and struggling to survive By Chris McGreal (The Guardian)