Daniel A. Gross
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New York, NY, United States
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ICE has no plan to vaccinate 13,860 immigrants in its custody against COVID-19. Here's how one of the US's most at-risk groups is falling through the cracks.
An Insider investigation has found no comprehensive plan to vaccinate nearly 14,000 ICE detainees, even though public-health experts say it's the right thing to do. → Read More
Governor Cuomo, Pardon This Man
Tyrone Abraham served his time. His story shows what happens when a state’s criminal justice system collides with federal immigration enforcement. → Read More
A Collection of 13 Eclectic Collections
A baker's dozen of our favorite hoards, from puzzles to gospel records to dog books. → Read More
The Many Lives of Demogorgon, From Scribal Error to 'Stranger Things'
How vague and various descriptions made a medieval mistake into a lasting horror. → Read More
Lev's Gathering Place – Waco, Texas
Discover Lev's Gathering Place in Waco, Texas: A musical sanctuary that preserves gospel’s Golden Age, tucked inside a library at Baylor University. → Read More
Berkeley Tool Lending Library
Discover Berkeley Tool Lending Library in Berkeley, California: Check out a shovel along with your Shakespeare. → Read More
Why The Herero Of Namibia Are Suing Germany For Reparations
They were twice the targets of systematic racism — an "extermination order" by German colonizers, then brutal segregation by South Africa. They're still fighting to regain what they lost. → Read More
Ben Mirin beatboxes with bird calls
A birdwatcher and beatboxer combines his two passions to make a totally original sound. → Read More
The Troubling Practice of Turning Semi-Trailers Into Jails
Facing a shortage of space for inmates, Missouri's Greene County Jail opted to build an insta-prison in the parking lot. Is that OK? → Read More
Inside a Prefab Missouri Jail Made of Semi-Trailers
Repurposed shipping containers and semi-trailers are finding a new life—as jails. → Read More
A Tiny New York Town With Not One, But 5 Indie Bookstores
The village of Hobart, home to fewer than 500 people, serves as a modest reminder that books can change people and places. → Read More
How German 'wood detectives' protect endangered species
A laboratory in Hamburg tries to catch illegal importers in the act. → Read More
Harry Truman’s grandson impersonates the former president and considers the age of Trump
Clifton Daniel used to dislike living in his grandfather Harry Truman’s shadow. Now, he’ll play him onstage. → Read More
The grandson of a man who bombed Hiroshima celebrates an anti-nuclear Nobel Peace Prize
Ari Beser's grandfather helped bomb Hiroshima. Now he's part of the movement to abolish nuclear weapons. → Read More
Massachusetts's iconic cranberry bogs leave a legacy of environmental damage
Farmers reckon with the environmental costs of an annual Thanksgiving tradition. → Read More
Merkel's party wants to deport migrants to Afghanistan, but this refugee says it's unsafe
A German far-right party won parliamentary seats after campaigning against policies that welcomed refugees. One of those refugees, Ahmad Wali Temory, hopes to preserve the policies that brought Afghans like him to the country. → Read More
Now available at your local library: non-books
Cake pans, binoculars, toys, neckties, even guitars are available at libraries, as the institutions become a different kind of public resource. → Read More
Can a nuclear explosion be peaceful? US scientists used to think so.
Fifty-five years ago, scientists created the largest man-made crater in America. Milo Nordyke was there. → Read More
Drawing comics of Nazis taught this US author what fascism really looks like
Jason Lutes grew up in Montana, speaks no German, and grew up sheltered from stories of war. But for two decades, he has been drawing a comic book about the rise of fascism in Berlin. → Read More
This Giant Buddha Is Filled With 125,000 Smaller Buddhas
There are more Buddhas than people in the capital of Bhutan. → Read More