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Food Deserts Jul 08, 2025

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How did millions of Americans end up living in neighborhoods where finding fresh food is harder than ever, and why is the problem by design, not accident? The answer rests in a major policy shift that fundamentally altered the American food landscape.

Food Deserts

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Open Borders Jul 01, 2025

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An immigration reporter’s chance encounter in the desert reveals how borders shape our actions, our beliefs, and the way we see the world around us.

Open Borders

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The Titanic's Best Lifeboat Jun 24, 2025

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A century-old shipwreck, a sea of glass, and the lifeboats that were never meant to save you.

The Titanic Was The Lifeboat

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The Red, the Black, and the Green Jun 17, 2025

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After Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd last year, tens of thousands of people all over the world took to the streets to protest police violence against Black people. And if you look at images from these marches, you will probably start to notice a common color scheme -- one involving a lot of red, black, and green. The flag was invented to unite Black people all over the world living under racial repression. When it first came into existence, the flag posed some bold questions about where Black people owed their loyalty: was it to the nations where their lives were demeaned and threatened? Or to a new nation - one they would build entirely for themselves? For hundreds of thousands of Black people, the red-black-and-green symbolized the answer.

The Red, the Black, and the Green

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The Return of Con Law Jun 10, 2025

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We heard you. The chorus of voices asking “where is Con Law? Where is Professor Elizabeth Joh to guide us through this madness? We need it now more than ever!” Well, here it is. We’re back with a special extra-long episode about Trump’s perverted use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport people without due process and how judges are trying to hold the administration accountable to the Constitution.

Plus, we announce the launch of The 99% Invisible Breakdown: The Constitution, where Elizabeth and Roman will tackle a different section of this 7600-word document each month, treating the Constitution as a text to be analyzed.

The Return of Con Law

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Adapt or Design Jun 03, 2025

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A debilitating injury forces 99PI's Kurt Kohlstedt to confront new everyday challenges and seek out accessible design solutions for one-handed living.

The full set of Adapt or Design articles can be found at 99pi.org/adapt.

Adapt or Design

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Build, Interrupted: A Conversation with Ezra Klein May 27, 2025

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Why is it so hard to build anything in America? Ezra Klein explores how our good intentions led to a system that stifles progress, and what it would take to break free.

Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson

Build, Interrupted: A Conversation with Ezra Klein

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Foreign in a Domestic Sense May 20, 2025

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A dusty surveillance file uncovers the story of love, betrayal, and the fight for Puerto Rico’s freedom.

Foreign in a Domestic Sense

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Fishing In The Night May 13, 2025

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Shortwave radio opened a portal to the world—then became a weapon in a high-stakes war of propaganda and power.

The Divided Dial is a podcast series about the history of radio from WNYC's On the Media and longtime 99PI contributor, Katie Thornton.

Fishing in the Night

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Emoji Law 😅⚖️ May 06, 2025

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A single 👍 emoji sent over text was meant to say “got it”—but instead, it kicked off a $62,000 legal battle and raised the question: can an emoji seal a contract?

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