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  • Nobody to Watch the Kids

    by William Liu ...
    America's childcare system is breaking, and parents are the ones paying for it.For millions of families, the monthly childcare bill now rivals the rent. Waiting lists stretch for months, classrooms close for lack of teachers, and home daycares are quietly going dark. Nobody to Watch the Kids follows the collapse from the ground up, from the wages at the bottom of the ladder to the pandemic rescue ... Read more

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  • Minds Without Maps

    by William Liu ...
    An octopus, a crow, and an ape each solved the problem of living in a hard world, and none of them took the same road.We tend to picture intelligence as a ladder with humans at the top. Minds Without Maps argues that it is closer to a landscape, with different animals reaching sharp minds by very different routes. From a forest in Panama to the open ocean, from a crow bending a wire to a ... Read more

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  • Empty Towers

    by William Liu ...
    The people guiding every flight in America are running out, and the margin for error is shrinking with them.In the span of a few years, a midair collision over the Potomac, a radar and radio blackout at Newark, and a run of near misses on crowded runways pulled the air traffic controller shortage out of the shadows. Empty Towers takes you inside the facilities, the academies, and the midnight ... Read more

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  • The Water Underneath

    by William Liu ...
    Under the High Plains, an ancient reservoir of water took thousands of years to fill and a few generations to drain. The Water Underneath follows America's disappearing aquifers from the center-pivot fields of the Plains to the valley that sank in California, and to the towns where the tap now coughs air. You will learn why no one had drawn the map of what was left, who actually owns the water ... Read more

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  • Forty and Still Renting

    by William Liu ...
    The median first-time homebuyer is now forty. Not thirty. Not thirty-five. Forty, the oldest on record, in a country that once treated a starter home as a young family's birthright. Forty and Still Renting follows the disappearing starter home from the lot lines where it died to the legislatures now trying to bring it back. You will see how minimum lot sizes, parking mandates and construction ... Read more

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  • The Scam Economy

    by William Liu ...
    In a single recent year, Americans reported record losses to fraud, and the money did not vanish. It moved down a pipeline that starts with one phone call, one text, one friendly stranger, and ends in walled compounds on the other side of the world. The Scam Economy follows that pipeline from the victim's last click to the people behind the keyboard. You will meet the banker who was butchered by a ... Read more

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  • The Pharmacy Is Closed

    by William Liu ...
    Where do you fill a prescription when the pharmacy is gone?Across America, drugstore chains are closing hundreds of locations, and entire towns are left without a counter to walk up to. The Pharmacy Is Closed traces how it happened: two chain bankruptcies, a shrinking footprint, and the pharmacy benefit managers whose reimbursement rules squeeze independents out of business.You will meet the ... Read more

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  • For Sale: One Church

    by William Liu ...
    Every week, somewhere in America, a church holds its last service.Membership has fallen below half the country, the number of people with no religion keeps climbing, and the pews that once filled on Sunday are growing gray and sparse. For Sale: One Church reports on why congregations are shrinking, why closings now outnumber openings, and what happens to the sanctuaries, boilers, and steeples left ... Read more

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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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  • The Vet Will See You in Six Weeks

    by William Liu ...
    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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  • 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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  • 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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