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Running Low on Blood

by William Liu ...

Almost no one realizes that blood cannot be stockpiled. There is no vault, no federal reserve, no warehouse to call. There is a shelf, a list of patients, and the people who stock that shelf one donation at a time. In May 2022, doctors at a Seattle cancer center were giving patients half units of blood and saving full units of platelets for those actively bleeding. That is what a shortage looks ... Read more

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Almost no one realizes that blood cannot be stockpiled. There is no vault, no federal reserve, no warehouse to call. There is a shelf, a list of patients, and the people who stock that shelf one donation at a time. In May 2022, doctors at a Seattle cancer center were giving patients half units of blood and saving full units of platelets for those actively bleeding. That is what a shortage looks
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Table for One

by William Liu ...

Living alone is usually treated as a symptom: of divorce, of widowhood, of a broken dating market, of a frayed country. Table for One argues that it is something else. The household of one has become one of the most ordinary ways to live in America. The Census Bureau's 2025 survey counted 39.7 million one-person households, 29 percent of all households, against roughly one in thirteen in 1940.This ... Read more

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Living alone is usually treated as a symptom: of divorce, of widowhood, of a broken dating market, of a frayed country. Table for One argues that it is something else. The household of one has become one of the most ordinary ways to live in America. The Census Bureau's 2025 survey counted 39.7 million one-person households, 29 percent of all households, against roughly one in thirteen in 1940.This
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The Vet Will See You in Six Weeks

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In January 2022, the only around-the-clock animal hospital in Rochester, New York, began closing its doors at 10 p.m. A small cat rescue that brought sick and injured cats there several times a month started compiling lists of emergency clinics in other cities and looking for volunteers willing to drive a suffering animal to Buffalo or Syracuse in the middle of the night. Nobody in that story was ... Read more

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In January 2022, the only around-the-clock animal hospital in Rochester, New York, began closing its doors at 10 p.m. A small cat rescue that brought sick and injured cats there several times a month started compiling lists of emergency clinics in other cities and looking for volunteers willing to drive a suffering animal to Buffalo or Syracuse in the middle of the night. Nobody in that story was
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The Shadow Seamstress

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In the city of lamps, a person's shadow is as real as their name, and the mender on Needle Row can sew one back. Linnet Farrow has been stitching shadows since she was nine. She has never met a client without one, until a duke walks into her shop with no shadow at all and twenty-nine days left to live. Corvin has paid for a year of silence. His shadow was cut from him on the Longest Night, and the ... Read more

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In the city of lamps, a person's shadow is as real as their name, and the mender on Needle Row can sew one back. Linnet Farrow has been stitching shadows since she was nine. She has never met a client without one, until a duke walks into her shop with no shadow at all and twenty-nine days left to live. Corvin has paid for a year of silence. His shadow was cut from him on the Longest Night, and the
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Twenty Years Apart

by William Liu ...

A child born in one American county can expect to live twenty years less than a child born in another. Same country, same currency, same flag: two entirely different lifetimes. In Twenty Years Apart, William Liu follows the numbers behind that gap, county by county, from the Mississippi Delta to the Dakota reservations to the affluent suburbs where life runs longest. Why do some Americans live so ... Read more

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A child born in one American county can expect to live twenty years less than a child born in another. Same country, same currency, same flag: two entirely different lifetimes. In Twenty Years Apart, William Liu follows the numbers behind that gap, county by county, from the Mississippi Delta to the Dakota reservations to the affluent suburbs where life runs longest. Why do some Americans live so
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Undersubscribed

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In 2024, an Alabama college that had stood for 168 years voted to close. An Illinois college never reopened. A small New York town learned it would lose a quarter of its volunteer firefighters when its college shut down. None of these schools failed because of scandal or a single bad decision. They failed because of arithmetic that was set in motion eighteen years earlier, when American births ... Read more

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In 2024, an Alabama college that had stood for 168 years voted to close. An Illinois college never reopened. A small New York town learned it would lose a quarter of its volunteer firefighters when its college shut down. None of these schools failed because of scandal or a single bad decision. They failed because of arithmetic that was set in motion eighteen years earlier, when American births
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The Hottest Summers

by William Liu ...

Extreme heat is the deadliest weather in America, and most of the people it kills never make the news.In the first days of July 2021, a heat dome settled over the Pacific Northwest, a region where most homes had no air conditioning. Fred Fah, a 66-year-old disabled Air Force veteran, died in his trailer home in Milwaukie, Oregon. He was one of hundreds. The Hottest Summers follows how a few days ... Read more

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Extreme heat is the deadliest weather in America, and most of the people it kills never make the news.In the first days of July 2021, a heat dome settled over the Pacific Northwest, a region where most homes had no air conditioning. Fred Fah, a 66-year-old disabled Air Force veteran, died in his trailer home in Milwaukie, Oregon. He was one of hundreds. The Hottest Summers follows how a few days
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The Data Center Next Door

by William Liu ...

Your electric bill is going up, and a building you have never seen may be part of the reason.On a Thursday in April 2026, about twenty people filed into Noblesville City Hall, north of Indianapolis, to talk to the commission that sets their electric rates. One told regulators she was tired of the increases and had no other company to buy from. Across the country, similar rooms are filling up. The ... Read more

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Your electric bill is going up, and a building you have never seen may be part of the reason.On a Thursday in April 2026, about twenty people filed into Noblesville City Hall, north of Indianapolis, to talk to the commission that sets their electric rates. One told regulators she was tired of the increases and had no other company to buy from. Across the country, similar rooms are filling up. The
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Solved by a Family Tree

by William Liu ...

In 2018, investigators used a genealogy website to name the Golden State Killer after four decades of silence. Since then, genetic genealogy has turned hundreds of unsolved murders and unidentified remains into named victims and named suspects. Solved by a Family Tree explains how a crime scene sample becomes a family tree, and how a tree becomes an arrest. You will meet the genetic detectives and ... Read more

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In 2018, investigators used a genealogy website to name the Golden State Killer after four decades of silence. Since then, genetic genealogy has turned hundreds of unsolved murders and unidentified remains into named victims and named suspects. Solved by a Family Tree explains how a crime scene sample becomes a family tree, and how a tree becomes an arrest. You will meet the genetic detectives and
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The Pension Math

by William Liu ...

Across America, millions of teachers, firefighters, police officers and city workers were promised a retirement check. The money behind those promises is running short. The Pension Math explains why, in plain language, and what happens next. Fewer workers are paying in while more retirees are drawing out. Plans in Illinois, New Jersey and Kentucky have missed payments for years, and cities like ... Read more

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Across America, millions of teachers, firefighters, police officers and city workers were promised a retirement check. The money behind those promises is running short. The Pension Math explains why, in plain language, and what happens next. Fewer workers are paying in while more retirees are drawing out. Plans in Illinois, New Jersey and Kentucky have missed payments for years, and cities like
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Who Will Wire the House

by William Liu ...

Every year, tens of thousands of electricians, plumbers, welders, linemen and diesel mechanics reach retirement age, and there are not enough young workers coming up behind them. Who Will Wire the House follows that quiet shortage from the shop classes schools closed to the data centers now pulling in crews, and shows what breaks when the people who build and repair America's homes, grids and ... Read more

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Every year, tens of thousands of electricians, plumbers, welders, linemen and diesel mechanics reach retirement age, and there are not enough young workers coming up behind them. Who Will Wire the House follows that quiet shortage from the shop classes schools closed to the data centers now pulling in crews, and shows what breaks when the people who build and repair America's homes, grids and
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Built to Convict

by William Liu ...

Every year, innocent people are convicted of crimes they did not commit, and most of them never make the headlines. Built to Convict asks how it happens and why so many stay locked up. William Liu walks through the fifteen failure points that send the wrong person to prison: the face in the lineup, confessions nobody should believe, hair, teeth and forensic certainty, jailhouse informants, ... Read more

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Every year, innocent people are convicted of crimes they did not commit, and most of them never make the headlines. Built to Convict asks how it happens and why so many stay locked up. William Liu walks through the fifteen failure points that send the wrong person to prison: the face in the lineup, confessions nobody should believe, hair, teeth and forensic certainty, jailhouse informants,
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