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- Cover Story
The Warrior Cops Suit Up
Drones, sniper rifles, armored vehicles, and a billion-dollar credit line: 72 hours with the nation’s top SWAT teams
- FEATURES
What’s the Matter With Sam Brownback?
The Kansas governor’s right-wing policy experiment has backfired—in the Koch brothers’ backyard, no less.
California Goes Nuts
The insane, hedge-fund-fueled race to plant thirsty trees in the middle of a catastrophic drought
The Hunger Game
The Assad regime made headlines for using chemical weapons against its own people. But its main weapon is far more archaic and brutal.
Is Your Judge for Sale?
How Karl Rove turned judicial elections dirty. PLUS: What happens when corporate money decides who’s on the bench?
Down in the Hole
Young, bored, bitter—and babysitting 150 megatons of nuclear doom
The Demonstration Plot
4-H used to be about kids and goats at the county fair. So when did it turn into a global powerhouse helping US agribusiness make inroads in Africa?
- OutFront
Truther Consequences
See Rand run—from his truther-curious past.
S*@! My Dad Says
GOP dad throwdown: Ron Paul vs. Rafael Cruz
Stock Photography
Cow waste from space
SeaWorld’s Weird Science
SeaWorld’s science spin
Obama’s Fracking Folly
Fracking’s methane mess
- MIXED MEDIA
William Gibson’s Peripheral Vision
Sci-fi novelist William Gibson on the future of cronuts
Wander Woman
Wild author Cheryl Strayed becomes one with Reese Witherspoon.
A Life Fueled by Anger and Love
Remembering Chuck Bowden, writer without borders
- FOOD + HEALTH
Bill, Baby, Bill
Dubious dentistry
Put the Lie in the Coconut
Is coconut water a rip-off?
Contributors
For this issue, 1 David Corn spent hours watching conspiracy theory videos (“Truther Consequences”), while 2 Tasneem Raja plowed through whale sperm studies (“SeaWorld’s Weird Science“) and cronut sci-fi (“William Gibson’s Peripheral Vision“).
3 Shane Bauer interviewed swat teams (“The Warrior Cops Suit Up“) and learned about Syrian snipers (“The Hunger Game”).
Tom Philpott snacked on straight-from-the-tree almonds (“California Goes Nuts”) while reporting in California’s Central Valley, the home turf of photographer 4 Matt Black, who’s documented local farm life for more than a decade.
This was Andy Kroll‘s fifth reporting trip to Wisconsin (“Is Your Judge for Sale?“): He got hooked covering the 2011 state Capitol occupation.
A skateboarding aficionado, 5 AJ Vicens helps ESPN cover the X Games, where judges’ picks aren’t for sale (“May It Sleaze the Court“).
While in rural Montana reporting on nuclear missileers, Josh Harkinson (“Down in the Hole“) spent his downtime at a mermaid bar.
For her new book about 4-H, Raise, 6 Kiera Butler(“The Demonstration Plot“) received grants from the Fund for Environmental Journalism, the Fund for Investigative Journalism, and The Nation Institute’s Investigative Fund.
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