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Saturday, March 15, 2025

Hello! In this issue:
* Decades before Covid-19 appeared, AIDS tore through the US, but there was little help for the most vulnerable communities.
* This week on our new show, More To The Story, Jonathan Blitzer of The New Yorker takes us into the dysfunction at the border.
* How one of the most high-profile war crimes prosecutions in US history was allowed to disappear.

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** The Plague in the Shadows
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Demonstrators, including Katrina Haslip (right), participate in a 1990 AIDS protest in front of the National Institutes of Health building in Washington. Credit: Donna Binder

Decades before Covid-19, the AIDS epidemic tore through communities in the US and around the world. It has killed some 40 million people and continues to take lives today. But early on, research and public policy focused on AIDS as a gay men’s disease, overlooking other vulnerable groups—including communities of color and women. “We literally had to convince the federal government that there were women getting HIV,” says activist Maxine Wolfe. “We actually had to develop treatment and research agendas that were about women.”

This week on Reveal, in an episode that first aired last year, reporters Kai Wright and Lizzy Ratner from the podcast Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows take us back to the first years of the HIV epidemic in New York City.

One of the most influential activists for women with AIDS was Katrina Haslip, a prisoner at a maximum-security prison in upstate New York. In the 1980s, Haslip and other incarcerated women started a support group to educate each other about HIV and AIDS.

Haslip took her activism beyond prison walls after her release in 1990, even meeting with leaders of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. One of the main goals was to change the definition of AIDS, which at the time excluded many symptoms that appeared in HIV-positive women. This meant that women with AIDS often did not qualify for government benefits such as Medicaid and disability insurance.

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** MORE TO THE STORY
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** Trump’s Mass Deportations Are Decades in the Making
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ICE officers arrest a man suspected of being in the country illegally. Credit: Charles Reed/US Immigration and Customs Enforcement via AP/file
On this week’s More To The Story ([link removed]) , host Al Letson sits down with The New Yorker staff writer Jonathan Blitzer to talk about how the Trump administration is approaching immigration in a much more targeted—and extreme—way than it did eight years ago.

Blitzer, author of the book Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here, argues that to fully understand immigration today, it’s important to look back a half-century ago to when the US was supporting brutal right-wing governments in Central America as a way to fight communist influence. That destabilizing foreign policy led to a failure of US domestic policy that we’re still grappling with today.

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** One Number to Know
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In November 2005, a group of US Marines killed 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq. The case against them became one of the most high-profile war crimes prosecutions in US history—but then it fell apart.

Only one Marine went to trial for the killings, and all he received was a slap on the wrist. The Haditha massacre, as it came to be known, is the subject of the current season of The New Yorker’s In the Dark podcast. But after reporter Madeleine Baran and her team spent four years looking into what happened at Haditha and why no one was held accountable, they uncovered a previously unreported killing that happened that same day: a 25th victim whose story had never before been told.
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