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Supreme Court Back in Session on Race and America’s Classrooms
Race on America’s college campuses has been in the news of late. Debates about diversity, free speech, safe space and more have raged. Adam Liptak, who covers the U.S. Supreme Court for The New York...
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NYC Bill Targets Landlords Who Get Tax Breaks, Duck Rent Limits
by Cezary Podkul and Marcelo Rochabrun New York City landlords who get big tax breaks in exchange for capping rent increases would have to provide an inventory of their apartments to city housing...
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Small-Scale Violations of Medical Privacy Often Cause the Most Harm
by Charles Ornstein This story was co-produced with NPR. “PPL WORLD WIDE,” the Facebook post shouted, using text-speak for the word “people.” “FRANCES … IS HPV POSITIVE!” The public missive from...
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Celebrities’ Medical Records Tempt Hospital Workers to Snoop
by Charles Ornstein Snooping on celebrities has been a bane for health systems around the country for years. The proliferation of electronic medical records systems has made it easier to track and...
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Unrestrained
by Heather Vogell ProPublica Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate Pep Montserrat, special to ProPublica Unrestrained While evidence of abuse of the disabled has piled up for decades, one...
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Tyson Foods’ Secret Recipe for Carving Up Workers’ Comp
by Michael Grabell About five years ago, one of the nation’s largest corporations, Tyson Foods, drew a bullseye on the official who oversaw Iowa’s system for compensating injured workers. As workers’...
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What Happened to Adam
by Heather Vogell ProPublica Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate Pep Montserrat, special to ProPublica What Happened to Adam It took one mother seven years to learn that the for-profit...
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School Restraints, Narco-Terror Stings and More in MuckReads Weekly
by Adam Harris h3 { font-size:1.2em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-top:1.4em; } blockquote { line-height: 1.5em; } Some of the best #MuckReads we read this week. Want to receive these by email? Sign up...
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Coming Soon: An Unbelievable Story of Rape
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The Corporate Takeover of the Red Cross
by Justin Elliott ProPublica Red Cross Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate Win McNamee/Getty The Corporate Takeover of the Red Cross Red Cross CEO Gail McGovern, who was hired to...
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The FBI Checked the Wrong Box and a Woman Ended Up on the Terrorism Watch...
by Raymond Bonner, special to ProPublica, This story was co-published with The Daily Beast. As the Senate debated a proposal earlier this month that would have barred gun sales to people on the...
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Fact-Checking the Debate on Encryption
by Jeff Larson and Julia Angwin As politicians and counter-terrorism officials search for lessons from the recent attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California, senior officials have called for...
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The Making of a Narco-terrorist
by Ginger Thompson, ProPublica, Susie Cagle, special to ProPublica, and Lena Groeger, ProPublica, Five criminals in far-flung parts of the world, five D.E.A. sting operations, five dubious links...
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Kids Get Hurt at Residential Schools While States Look On
by Annie Waldman After slamming his fists into the wall until his knuckles dripped with blood, the raging teenage boy turned to a staff member and shoved him. The teen had recently been admitted to...
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How We Reported ‘An Unbelievable Story of Rape’
by T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, and Ken Armstrong, The people interviewed for this story include Marie (in our story, we agreed to use only here middle name); Marie’s foster mothers Peggy...
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An Unbelievable Story of Rape
by T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, and Ken Armstrong, ProPublica The Marshall Project Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate An Unbelievable Story of Rape An 18-year-old said she was...
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Discussion: How Not to Handle a Rape Investigation
by Amanda Zamora Detectives investigating a Lynnwood, Washington, teenager’s rape in our latest investigation, An Unbelievable Story of Rape, concluded she hadn’t been assaulted based in part on “her...
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Ask This Former DEA Agent Anything About Fighting Drug Cartels In Mexico
by Terry Parris Jr. In between Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar and Mexico’s El Chapo, the world’s most powerful drug trafficker, there were the Arellano brothers. In the early 1990s, the Arellano...
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Devils, Deals and the DEA
by David Epstein ProPublica Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate Tim McDonagh, special to ProPublica Devils, Deals and the DEA Why Chapo Guzman was the biggest winner in the DEA's longest...
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We Blew $17 Billion in Afghanistan. How Would You Have Spent It?
by Megan McCloskey, Tobin Asher, Lena Groeger and Sisi Wei, The U.S. government has wasted billions of dollars in Afghanistan, and until now, no one has added it all up. Project after project...
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