Tag: notebook
Reporter’s Notebook: Eight theories why fentanyl deaths are plummeting
Brian Mann The last six months I’ve been tracking something really cool and mysterious happening on American streets. For the first time in thirty years, drug deaths are plunging at a rate that addiction experts say is hopeful — but also baffling. In the past, even the most ambitious, well-funded efforts to slow drug deaths…
Reporters’ notebook: revisiting Afghan refugees starting anew in the U.S.
By Tom Bowman , Lauren Hodges ALEXANDRIA, VA. – Shafi Amani wears a bright red chef’s coat and hands out a plate of warm chicken shawarma through the window of his food truck near the King Street Metro station. The sign on the side of the truck says “Seven Guys, Halal food.” We first met…