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Mollie Simon

Large group of school kids raising their hands to answer the teacher's question on a class at elementary school. (Getty Images/skynesher)

Barns, go-karts and strip malls: The wild west of private schools that collect taxpayer dollars

Jennifer Smith Richards, Megan O’Matz, Mollie Simon, Jennifer Berry Hawes
The White Mesa Mill opened in the 1970s to process uranium ore, and recently the mill has become an area to bring low level radioactive waste on April 4, 2022 in White Mesa, Utah. (RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

“A ticking atomic bomb”: The Cold War legacy lurking in U.S. groundwater

Mark Olalde, Mollie Simon, Alex Mierjeski
A TitleMax store in Columbia, South Carolina. (Sean Rayford/Getty Images)

How title lenders trap poor Americans in debt with triple-digit interest rates

Margaret Coker, Joel Jacobs, Mollie Simon
A studio shot of two glass vials with medicine and a single syringe ready for an injection or vaccination (Getty Images)

How many vaccine shots go to waste? Many states aren’t even counting

Ryan Gabrielson, Caroline Chen, Mollie Simon
The Glass Fire burns behind Merus Wines vineyards in Napa Valley, California on September 27, 2020. - The Glass fire grew to 2,500 Acres on the evening of September 27. A heat wave and dry winds create critical weather conditions and mandatory evacuations are in order. (SAMUEL CORUM/AFP via Getty Images)

California will keep burning. But housing policy is making it worse

Elizabeth Weil, Mollie Simon
Donald Trump| A massive group of protesters sit on the ground at Foley Square (Getty Images/Salon)

Politicians and business interests ignored health officials to control reopening. Cases exploded

Lisa Song, Mollie Simon