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From The Strokes to Olivia Rodrigo to Frank Ocean, here are our picks for the greatest debut albums since the dawn of the new millennium.

Dr. James Eason led the liver transplant program at Methodist University Hospital. An extraordinary cache of internal records details deaths under his watch.

By Max Blau, photography by Lucy Garrett for ProPublica ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. This story was produced in partnership with MLK50: Justice Through Journalism and co-published with the Commercial Appeal. On a brisk morning in the winter of 2019, at a standing-room-only...

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Announcing the winner of the 2022 Nina Mason Pulliam Award for Outstanding Environmental Reporting October 26, 2022 — The winner of the 2022 Nina Mason Pulliam Award for Outstanding Environmental Reporting is Sharon Lerner for her two first-place winning entries: "The Department of Yes: How Pesticide Companies Corrupted the EPA and Poisoned America" (Kevin Carmody Award for

I've been writing a long time about a phenomenon that I like to refer to as "quackademic medicine," defined as the infiltration into academic medical centers and medical school of unscientific and pseudoscientific treatment modalities that are unproven or disproven. Few seem to listen. That's why it's reassuring to see a mainstream news publication get it (mostly) right about this phenomenon.

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