ALL POSTS BY Gail Ablow
- January 13, 2017We're digging for gold in the vast shallows of the internet. Starting this week, we will regularly point you to some of the best investigative reporting you might otherwise miss.
- December 12, 2016The outbreak of racist, sexist and xenophobic harassment across the US is alarming. People have reported almost 900 instances of hate speech since Nov. 8, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Many are on high alert, wondering how they might respond to a hate crime.
- September 26, 2016How to keep an eye on what's true, false or somewhere in between.
- September 21, 2016Whether or not adding your name to an online petition will make a difference to a cause depends on who created the petition, its timing, its target, its aim and what you do next.
- September 9, 2016Native Americans from tribes all over the country are protesting the construction of a crude-oil pipeline slated to snake through sacred sites and under the water supply for the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation.
- September 1, 2016We explore some theories on why the president continues to back a deal that his own party has largely turned its back on.
- August 16, 2016In response to a reader's question, we tackle "free trade” and “fair trade” and take a quick look at the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a trade pact that President Obama is energetically pushing.
- July 18, 20162016 is shaping up to be a big year for ballot measures.
- July 12, 2016Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad continues the conversation about the history of race, crime and policing in a new interview with NPR's Code Switch podcast.
- June 24, 2016While voter fraud is rare, voter suppression is not.