Category: investigative-journalism
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The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination by Stuart A. Reid goes over one of the first documented evidence of an assassination attempt at the highest level of the United States government against a foreign politician during the Congo’s fight for independence in the 1960s. What a story…
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The Big Fail by Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera talks about how the United States government, along with the other big agencies there, are supposed to be best equipped to deal with a pandemic such as when Covid-19 struck, which generally failed the American public. It is truly fascinating to have experienced and survived my…
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This writing by Sarah Stillman of The New Yorker won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in the ‘Explanatory Reporting’ category. It talks about what I’d assume is a criminal law/topic that most average citizens most likely have heard of, but either misunderstood how it operates or are not familiar with at all: catching a felony murder…
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This writing by Katie Engelhart of The New York Times won the 2024 Pulitzer prize in the ‘Feature Writing’ category. It talks about a topic I’m sure that hits way too close at home for many: dementia. Katie follow two sisters’ journey in Denison, Iowa as they fight for guardianship over their mother, Diane. Fearing…
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond is a 2017 Pulitzer winner in the General Non-Fiction category, covering the problem of home eviction and homelessness within Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Although the author chooses to only cover eight or so people within this one city, his higher purpose is to generally highlight how…
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