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Optioned by Netflix; currently in development as a long-form documentary film

A Wife’s Revenge from Beyond the Grave

Caught in a brutal divorce, Catherine Kassenoff committed medically assisted suicide. Then the campaign to destroy her ex-husband truly began.

Stanford’s War Against Its Own Students

A working-class student. A star soccer player. And the ominous emails from all-powerful administrators.

How One Town Turned a Child’s ‘Cry For Help’ Into a Hate Crime

After three nooses were found in a bush in Evanston, Illinois, two children were vilified as racist. A family was driven out of their home. Now, over two years later, the parents reveal the truth.

MLK’s Former Speechwriter: ‘We Are Trying to Save the Soul of America’

‘I Have a Dream’ coauthor Clarence Jones on color blindness, Ibram X. Kendi, black-Jewish relations, and why MLK ‘wouldn’t permit what’s going on.’

A Mom Asked for Public School Board Records. They Charged Her $33 Million.

Parents are suing schools to find out what their kids are learning. Schools are suing parents to shut them up. How did we get here?

EXCLUSIVE: A High Schooler Graduated with a 3.4 GPA. He Couldn’t Even Read.

Now, the Tennessee teen is suing his school district

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