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‘I know where the bodies are buried’: one woman’s mission to change how the police i…

3/24/2023 • 50 min

For the past two years, Betsy Stanko has been leading an unprecedented investigation into why the police have been failing so badly to tackle sexual violence. But is there any chance of fixing a system that seems so broken?. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod Play episode

From the archive: Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight…
Baghdad memories: what the first few months of the US occupation felt like…
Dinner with Proust: how Alzheimer’s caregivers are pulled into their patie…
From the archive: How the MoD’s plan to privatise military housing ended i…
‘One billionaire at a time’: inside the Swiss clinics where the super-rich…
From the archive: The real David Attenborough
No coach, no agent, no ego: the incredible story of the ‘Lionel Messi of c…
From the archive: Fifty shades of white: the long fight against racism in …
Portrait of a killer: art class in one of Mexico’s most notorious prisons
From the archive: Welcome to the land that no country wants
Can a mass shooter demand a good death? The strange case that tested the l…
From the archive: Snow machines and fleece blankets: inside the ski indust…
Battle of the botanic garden: the horticulture war roiling the Isle of Wig…
From the archive: Can the greatest darts player of all time step away from…
A tragedy pushed to the shadows: the truth about China’s Cultural Revoluti…
From the archive: Where oil rigs go to die
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‘We can’t even get basic care done’: what it’s like doing 12-hour shifts o…
From the archive – The selling of the Krays: how two mediocre criminals cr…
‘It was a set-up, we were fooled’: the coalmine that ate an Indian village
The price of ‘sugar free’: are sweeteners as harmless as we thought?
From the archive: El Chapo: what the rise and fall of the kingpin reveals …
Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site
Becoming a chatbot: my life as a real estate AI’s human backup
From the archive: Who killed the prime minister? The unsolved murder that …
‘The Godfather, Saudi-style’: inside the palace coup that brought MBS to p…
‘They want toys to get their children into Harvard’: have we been getting …
From the archive: How the ‘rugby rape trial’ divided Ireland
Iran’s moment of truth: what will it take for the people to topple the reg…
Best of 2022: ‘Is this justice?’: why Sudan is facing a multibillion-dolla…
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The many meanings of moss
From the archive: Dulwich Hamlet: the tiny football club that lost its hom…
‘He was fast … he ran you right over’: what it’s like to get hit by an SUV
How to move a country: Fiji’s radical plan to escape rising sea levels
From the archive: China’s hi-tech war on its Muslim minority
‘Who remembers proper binmen?’ The nostalgia memes that help explain Brita…
Are we really prisoners of geography?
From the archive: How I let drinking take over my life
The night everything changed: waiting for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Megalopolis: how coastal west Africa will shape the coming century
From the archive – Spain’s Watergate: inside the corruption scandal that c…
Is the IMF fit for purpose?
Ukraine’s true detectives: the investigators closing in on Russian war cri…

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