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The Paper Trail: December 15, 2023

Judicial Self-Policing Doesn’t Work; Children Risk Lives Building America’s Roofs; Cybercrime Victim Victimized by IRS; and More. 

The Paper Trail: December 12, 2023

USPS Falsified Heat Safety Records; 15 Airmen Disciplined in Discord Leaks Probe; Unconscious Racial Bias in Health Care; and More. 

The Paper Trail: December 5, 2023

Santos Reveals Campaign Finance System Flaws; Uncle Sam Can’t Quit Elon Musk; Eligible Voters Caught Up in Purges; and More. 

The Paper Trail: December 1, 2023

Coast Guard Concealed Racism Report; M&Ms Harvested in Ghana by 5-Year-Olds; Weapons Stolen from U.S. in Iraq and Syria; and More. 

The Paper Trail: November 28, 2023

Social Security’s Overpayment Problem; U.S. Troops Risk Brain Injury from Weapons; Puerto Rico’s Crumbling Health Care System; and More. 

The Paper Trail: November 17, 2023

Pentagon Still Can’t Pass an Audit; Another Setback for Trump Disqualification;A Smurf-tastic Day on Capitol Hill;and More. 

The Paper Trail: November 14, 2023

SCOTUS Adopts Ethics Code; Strip Clubs, Lewd Photos and a Boozy Hotel at FDIC; Chess, Cards and Catnaps at Los Alamos; and More. 

The Paper Trail: November 7, 2023

COVID Vaccines Still Hard to Find; The Flailing Campaign Against Hate in the Military; Crumbling Train Bridges; and More. 

The Paper Trail: November 3, 2023

Senate Chips Away at Military Nom Backlog; The Secretive Industry Devouring the U.S. Economy; Toxic Metals in Chocolate—Relax, People; and More. 

The Paper Trail: October 31, 2023

Senate Seeks Subpoenas for SCOTUS Sugar Daddies; State Pushback to EPA Enforcement; $1.3B Power Grid Investment Falls Short; and More. 

The Paper Trail: October 27, 2023

Clarence Thomas’s R.V. Loan; EPA Failing to Combat Environmental Racism; Twitter After One Year Under Elon; and More. 

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