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Jan 17, 2025 | 
lithub.com | Kyle Paoletta
“Only the sunlight holds things together. Noon is the crucial hour: the desert reveals itself nakedly and cruelly, with no meaning but its own existence.”–Edward Abbey*Article continues after advertisementOfelia Zepeda occupied an old, high-ceilinged office on the ground level of a century-old brick building at the University of Arizona. She wore a necklace of beaded coral, and her hair rolled gently over her shoulders, willowy and white.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
datebook.sfchronicle.com | Kyle Paoletta |Peter Fish
“American Oasis: Finding the Future in the Cities of the Southwest” by author and journalist Kyle Paoletta. Photo: PantheonWelcome to the boomtowns, southwest style. Phoenix is now the fifth largest city in the United States. The population of metro Las Vegas is nearing three million. The cities and their states proved their political potency last November when Arizona and Nevada helped swing the presidency to Donald Trump.
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Dec 15, 2024 | 
cjr.org | Kyle Paoletta
Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. A week before he was nominated by Donald Trump to serve as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr issued an extraordinary letter to the chief executives of Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Apple.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
cjr.org | Kyle Paoletta
Sign up for The Media Today, CJRâs daily newsletter. Since he entered politics, a decade ago, Donald Trump has castigated journalists for their skepticism and independence, calling the media âthe enemy of the people,â a âthreat to democracy,â âfake,â and âcrooked bastardsâ whom he vows to prosecute. Now that he has secured a second term, he will be free to make good on his promises.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Kyle Paoletta |David Grann |Walter Isaacson
Dogged original research and superb narrative skills come together in this gripping account of pitiless evil. Awards & Accolades Likes 68 Our Verdict GET IT Kirkus Reviews' Best Books Of 2017 New York Times Bestseller National Book Award Finalist Greed, depravity, and serial murder in 1920s Oklahoma.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
cjr.org | Kyle Paoletta
Sign up for The Media Today, CJRâs daily newsletter. Itâs the summer of 2025, and the home screen of every major news outlet bears the same image: a journalist being escorted by a cloud of black suits across a brick plaza to a hearing at the federal courthouse in Alexandria, Virginia. She is the first American reporter ever to be charged under the Espionage Act.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
barnesandnoble.com | Kyle Paoletta
American Oasis: Finding the Future in the Cities of the SouthwestAn expansive and revelatory historical exploration of the multicultural, water-seeking, land-destroying settlers of the most arid corner of North America, arguing that in order to know where the United States is going in the era of mass migration and climate crisis we must understand where the Southwest has already beenAlbuquerque. Phoenix. Tucson. El Paso. Las Vegas. Iconic American cities surrounded by desert and rust.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
thebaffler.com | Kyle Paoletta |Gabb Schivone |Zachariah Webb |Zoe Hu
Amid all the Democratic hand-wringing and backbiting that followed Donald Trump’s election in 2016, some progressives found solace in the Sonoran Desert. After a twenty-four-year reign as the sheriff of Maricopa County, Joe Arpaio, the politician who made Arizona ground zero for the confrontational nativism taking over the GOP, had been vanquished.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
bostonmagazine.com | Kyle Paoletta
Profiles After a lifetime of rolling up his sleeves to help people in need, the 57-year-old philanthropist with a famous last name reaches a crossroads. Will Robert Kraft's third son run for mayor of Boston? There was a time when Josh Kraft flew under the radar. Then, all of a sudden, he was everywhere.
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
thenation.com | Kyle Paoletta
Thank you for reading The NationWe hope you enjoyed the story you just read, just one of the many incisive, deeply-reported articles we publish daily. Now more than ever, we need fearless journalism that shifts the needle on important issues, uncovers malfeasance and corruption, and uplifts voices and perspectives that often go unheard in mainstream media.
