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How Your Family Tree Could Catch a Killer

22 November 2021by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Raffi Khatchadourian The New Yorker On Thanksgiving morning, 1987, Rick Bart, a homicide detective in Snohomish County, Washington, got word that a pheasant hunter had discovered a body in […]

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Cases of Missing Trans People are Rarely Solved. A Married Pair of Forensic Genealogists is Hoping to Change That

9 September 2021by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Erica Lentl Xtra They found Markham Doe among the evergreens on the east side of 11th Concession, in Markham, Ontario, on July 16, 1980. It was a humid, rainy […]

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After Crafting American Criminal Justice, Christians Keep Changing the Rules

28 July 2021by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Chris Hutton The News Station In the 1640s, New England had a peculiar problem: “Something close to a bestiality panic,” historian John Murrin wrote. Teenagers were whipped, and at least […]

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All the White Churches

21 July 2021by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Jennifer C. Martin Los Angeles Review of Books Anthea Butler has spent the bulk of her career studying the influence of white religion on Black people. Formerly a Pentecostal […]

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How Big Tech Created a Data ‘Treasure Trove’ for Police

20 July 2021by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Matt O’Brien & Michael Liedtke Associated Press When U.S. law enforcement officials need to cast a wide net for information, they’re increasingly turning to the vast digital ponds of […]

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The Time May Finally be Ripe for a National Climate Service

6 July 2021by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Chelsea Harvey Scientific American As the George W. Bush administration was drawing to a close, Scott Rayder faced a tough choice. Should he push to fund a new national […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, LAW, NATIONAL SECURITY

The GOP’s ‘Critical Race Theory’ Obsession

11 June 2021by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Adam Harris The Atlantic On January 12, Keith Ammon, a Republican member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, introduced a bill that would bar schools as well as organizations […]

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The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax

8 June 2021by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Jesse Eisinger, Jeff Ernsthausen & Paul Kiel ProPublica In 2007, Jeff Bezos, then a multibillionaire and now the world’s richest man, did not pay a penny in federal income […]

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Seeking the True Story of the Comfort Women

27 April 2021by TheThresh.com 1 Comment

By Jeannie Suk Gersen The New Yorker In January, I was outlining an article I hoped to write about a recent judgment by a South Korean court ordering Japan to […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, LAW

Ground Zero for a Billion-Dollar Surge of Zombie Oil Wells

25 April 2021by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Clayton Aldern, Christopher Collins & Naveena Sadasivam Grist When Laura Briggs and her husband finally found their dream home in West Texas, they knew they’d be sharing space with […]

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