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  • OBAMA'S LEGACY
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    OBAMA'S LEGACY
    THE WASHINGTON POST
    In this timely retrospective, leading voices from The Washington Post come together to discuss Barack Obama's historic presidency. When President Obama was elected, he was a figure of hope for many Americans. Throughout his presidency, he has become far more than a symbol of change; he has enacted countless programs and policies that have made an impact on the country. As his t...

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  • GENERATION Z
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    GENERATION Z
    THE WASHINGTON POST
    An in-depth profile of the digital native generation from the Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper.   For the generation after Millennials, technology has been the only way of life since birth. These children are the first group to have their formative moments chronicled on Facebook, to grow up surrounded by the ubiquity of smartphones, and most important, to navigate a social land...

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  • AMERICA'S BEST FOOD CITIES
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    AMERICA'S BEST FOOD CITIES
    THE WASHINGTON POST / TOM SIETSEMA
    The Washington Post  food critic's guide to the nation's top ten culinary capitals—plus restaurant recipes you can make in your own kitchen.   Follow Tom Sietsema as he dines, drinks and browses at 271 restaurants, bars, and shops while reporting for his America's Best Food Cities project. Along the way, he measures how each city stacks up in terms of creativity, community, tra...

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  • THE RESISTANCE
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    THE RESISTANCE
    JOEL ACHENBACH / THE WASHINGTON POST
    Washington Post reporter Joel Achenbach explores our relationship with technology—frequently beneficial, occasionally adversarial, and rapidly changing in a world growing more connected by the minute. In the second decade of this new millennium, we are more connected than we have ever been, and digital utopians speak of the new wonders ahead—artificial intelligence and augmente...

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  • LETHAL FORCE
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    LETHAL FORCE
    THE WASHINGTON POST
    In 2015, The Washington Post launched an unprecedented effort to account for every fatal shooting by an officer of the law. Their study has motivated the FBI to action, and changed the way we think of those who serve and protect. After a police officer shot and killed a black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, the media began to pay greater attention to deadly interactions between...

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  • 21 LIVES IN 2015
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    21 LIVES IN 2015
    THE WASHINGTON POST
    Heroes and icons. Athletes and entertainers. Trailblazers and game-changers. The world lost many brilliant women and men in 2015, but legacies live on. The Washington Post beautifully and comprehensively encapsulates some of the luminaries the world lost in 2015. Brilliant and beloved, fiery and controversial, these twenty-one lives live on through sheer influence. From legends...

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  • RUNAWAY PLANET
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    RUNAWAY PLANET
    THE WASHINGTON POST
    Saving the world won't happen on the silver screen. In our fragile ecosystem, climate change is swiftly becoming the defining issue of how to prepare—and protect—the earth for the future. The climate change debate raged on in America in 2015, but the facts and the science now show irrefutably that our world is rapidly changing, and that irreparable damage has already begun. Fro...

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  • STATE OF TERROR
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    STATE OF TERROR
    THE WASHINGTON POST
    A collection of articles on how ISIS took over a region the size of the UK, sparked a humanitarian crisis, and developed into a global threat.   With coordinated attacks in Paris and the downing of a Russian passenger plane, the Islamic State (ISIS) declared war on the wider world, galvanizing new calls for an intensified global response.   The Washington Post spent a year trac...

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  • THE THREATENED NET
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    THE THREATENED NET
    CRAIG TIMBERG / THE WASHINGTON POST
    The Internet can appear to be elegantly designed, but as The Washington Post's Craig Timberg demonstrated in his illuminating series "Net of Insecurity," the network is much more an assemblage of kludges—more Frankenstein than Ferrari—that endure because they work, or at least work well enough. The defects hackers use often are well-known and ancient in technological terms, sur...

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  • AFTER THE STORM
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    AFTER THE STORM
    THE WASHINGTON POST
    The aftermath was almost as devastating as the storm itself. In the ten years since Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, New Orleans has changed drastically, and The Washington Post returns to the region to take the full measure of the city's long, troubled, inspiring, unfinished comeback. When Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast on Aug. 29, 2005, it wrenched more than a mill...

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  • THE 2016 CONTENDERS: MARCO RUBIO
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    THE 2016 CONTENDERS: MARCO RUBIO
    MARY JORDAN / THE WASHINGTON POST
    Presidential candidates are a breed apart, often propelled by traits that have shaped their careers and have deep roots in personal histories. Often their greatest strength can turn at supernova speed into their greatest weakness. The exact qualities that set them apart from the field trip them up eventually over the long haul of a presidential campaign. Florida Sen. Marco Rubi...

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  • THE 2016 CONTENDERS: MIKE HUCKABEE
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    THE 2016 CONTENDERS: MIKE HUCKABEE
    STEVE HENDRIX / THE WASHINGTON POST
    Presidential candidates are a breed apart, often propelled by traits that have shaped their careers and have deep roots in personal histories. Often their greatest strength can turn at supernova speed into their greatest weakness. The exact qualities that set them apart from the field trip them up eventually over the long haul of a presidential campaign. It was as a lifelong br...

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  • THE 2016 CONTENDERS: RAND PAUL
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    THE 2016 CONTENDERS: RAND PAUL
    JOEL ACHENBACH / THE WASHINGTON POST
    Presidential candidates are a breed apart, often propelled by traits that have shaped their careers and have deep roots in personal histories. Often their greatest strength can turn at supernova speed into their greatest weakness. The exact qualities that set them apart from the field trip them up eventually over the long haul of a presidential campaign. Rand Paul's ability to ...

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  • THE 2016 CONTENDERS: CHRIS CHRISTIE
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    THE 2016 CONTENDERS: CHRIS CHRISTIE
    MANUEL ROIG-FRANZIA / THE WASHINGTON POST
    Presidential candidates are a breed apart, often propelled by traits that have shaped their careers and have deep roots in personal histories. Often their greatest strength can turn at supernova speed into their greatest weakness. The exact qualities that set them apart from the field trip them up eventually over the long haul of a presidential campaign. New Jersey Gov. Chris C...

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  • THE 2016 CONTENDERS: RICK PERRY
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    THE 2016 CONTENDERS: RICK PERRY
    STEPHANIE MCCRUMMEN / THE WASHINGTON POST
    Presidential candidates are a breed apart, often propelled by traits that have shaped their careers and have deep roots in personal histories. Often their greatest strength can turn at supernova speed into their greatest weakness. The exact qualities that set them apart from the field trip them up eventually over the long haul of a presidential campaign. Some see former Texas g...

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  • THE 2016 CONTENDERS: SCOTT WALKER
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    THE 2016 CONTENDERS: SCOTT WALKER
    MICHAEL A. FLETCHER / THE WASHINGTON POST
    Presidential candidates are a breed apart, often propelled by traits that have shaped their careers and have deep roots in personal histories. Often their greatest strength can turn at supernova speed into their greatest weakness. The exact qualities that set them apart from the field trip them up eventually over the long haul of a presidential campaign. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Wa...

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  • JUSTICE IN INDIAN COUNTRY
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    JUSTICE IN INDIAN COUNTRY
    SARI HORWITZ / THE WASHINGTON POST
    This eye-opening report is the product of a year-long investigation into how the legal system in Indian country fails some of America's most vulnerable citizens—and what is being done to begin to rectify an ongoing tragedy. Sari Horwitz, recipient of the ASNE Award for Distinguished Writing on Diversity, traveled to an Indian reservation in Minnesota to interview a Native Ameri...

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  • 22 LIVES IN 2014
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    22 LIVES IN 2014
    THE WASHINGTON POST
    From one of the world's most renowned novelists to a truth-telling comedian to a courageous warrior for civil rights, 2014 bid farewell to many great men and women who have changed the way we think about our world. In 22 LIVES OF 2014, THE WASHINGTON POST turns to its Pulitzer Prize-winning reportage to gather the obituaries of some of the greatest artists and icons. It honors ...

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  • THE GREAT SOCIETY
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    THE GREAT SOCIETY
    THE WASHINGTON POST
    A stirring profile of our 36th president, Lyndon B. Johnson, who presided over one of the most tumultuous eras in our country's history.   Lyndon B. Johnson's unprecedented and ambitious domestic vision in the 1960s changed the nation. It unraveled and restitched the very fabric of the American life. It knocked down racial barriers, provided health care for the elderly and food...

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  • INTERNATIONAL REPORTING
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    INTERNATIONAL REPORTING
    ANTHONY SHADID / THE WASHINGTON POST
    The in-depth coverage of the Iraq War that earned Anthony Shadid of the Washington Post the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.   On the eve of the war in Iraq, all news correspondents were ordered to leave Baghdad for the sake of their safety. Many streamed out. One man, instead, went deeper. At his own peril, Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter Anthony Shadid chose to sta...

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  • CIVIL WAR STORIES
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    CIVIL WAR STORIES
    THE WASHINGTON POST
    This fascinating compendium examines the legacy of the War Between the States.   At the Washington Post, the Civil War has held an enduring fascination for both readers and writers. Raging from 1861 to 1865, the War Between the States has left a lasting imprint on the United States's collective psyche for 150 years. Civil War Stories: A 150th Anniversary Collection aggregates h...

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  • THE ORIGINAL WATERGATE STORIES
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    THE ORIGINAL WATERGATE STORIES
    THE WASHINGTON POST
    "5 Held in Plot to Bug Democrats' Offices": The legendary articles that exposed a crime, ended a presidency, and changed a nation.   The Washington Post's seminal Watergate stories have been gathered together for the first time as an e-book, including a foreword by journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein assessing the impact of their stories decades later.   "5 Held in Plot...

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  • NSA SECRETS
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    NSA SECRETS
    THE WASHINGTON POST
    The Pulitzer Prize–winning investigation into surveillance abuses and the Edward Snowden case that brought them to light.   The NSA's extensive surveillance program has led Americans to question threats to their privacy. As reported by the Washington Post, in their Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of whistleblower Edward Snowden's NSA leaks, NSA Secrets delves into the shadowy w...

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  • KIDS AROUND THE WORLD
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    KIDS AROUND THE WORLD
    THE WASHINGTON POST
    Expand kids' horizons with this collection of real-life stories of children's lives in countries from Nepal to the Netherlands.   Filled with fascinating details that enrich young people's understanding of geography, culture, and history, these stories by Washington Post foreign correspondents feature the true stories of kids all over the world. From Yuki, who rides a subway tr...

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  • FALL DINING GUIDE: DC 2013
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    FALL DINING GUIDE: DC 2013
    TOM SIETSEMA / THE WASHINGTON POST
    Washington D.C.'s culinary landscape is celebrated in the 14th annual Fall Dining Guide. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post comes the food critic's essential guide to the D.C. dining scene. For his 14th Fall Dining Guide, Tom Sietsema selects his 40 favorite Washington D.C.-area restaurants, reflecting a much-changed dining scene with exciting new flavors. From bar...

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  • THE PERMANENT WAR
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    THE PERMANENT WAR
    THE WASHINGTON POST
    The Pulitzer Prize-nominated examination of the United States drone campaign, and U.S. counterterrorism policies. On January 30, 2013, President Barack Obama acknowledged publicly what most Americans already knew: The U.S. government was operating a covert drone campaign in Pakistan. Even as Obama maintained policy was for judicious actions only, his own administration was draw...

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  • DEMOCRACY INC.
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    DEMOCRACY INC.
    THE WASHINGTON POST / DAVID S. FALLIS / SCOTT HIGHAM / DAN KEATING / KIMBERLY KINDY
    An investigation into how legislators have taken advantage of their positions—and of weak financial disclosure laws—to make millions.   After a historic financial crisis led Congress to unprecedented economic intervention, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post began an investigation that pierced the secrecy of the deeply flawed financial disclosure system that governs the ...

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  • GUNS IN AMERICA
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    GUNS IN AMERICA
    THE WASHINGTON POST
    In the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary tragedy, The Washington Post investigates America's complicated relationship with guns. Wayne LaPierre, the leader of the National Rifle Association, calls gun control "the fight of the century." For more than a year, The Washington Post examined the long, bloody history of gun control in America, an investigation that was reopened ...

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  • ZERO DAY
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    ZERO DAY
    ROBERT O'HARROW / THE WASHINGTON POST
    Will the world's next war be fought in cyberspace? "It's going to happen," said former National Defense University Professor Dan Kuehl. So much of the world's activity takes place on the internet now– including commerce, banking and communications- that the Pentagon has declared war in cyberspace an inevitability. For more than a year, Washington Post reporter Robert O'Harrow h...

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  • THE BRYCE HARPER STORY
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    THE BRYCE HARPER STORY
    THE WASHINGTON POST
    Bryce Harper's unprecedented ascent to the major leagues, from a 17-year-old first overall draft pick to a headline-creating, 19-year-old rookie center fielder for the Washington Nationals, dropped him into the middle of the best season of D.C. baseball since the Great Depression. Washington Post sports reporters chronicled each moment on and off the field, from his first press...

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