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Horror House on the Prairie: Hard Labor and Harsh Treatment for Group of...
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Accreditor of For-profit Colleges Agrees It Needs a Makeover
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Too Human (Not) to Fail
by Lena Groeger This story was co-published with Source. Visual Evidence Data and design in everyday life Lena Groeger A coffee grinder that only works when the lid is on. An electrical plug that only...
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The Absolute Best, Most Terrific Reporting on Trump University
by Sarah Smith Trump University promised to help students get rich. Enrollees would study the wisdom of The Donald and get mentoring from other terrific businesspeople. But a class-action suit by...
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Who Makes Sure Hospital Mergers Do No Harm? Almost Nobody.
by Patrick G. Lee This story was co-published with Mother Jones. Mergers have become commonplace as hospital mega-chains increasingly dominate the American health-care market. But these deals often go...
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Federal Report Appears to Undercut EPA Assurances on Water Safety In...
by Abrahm Lustgarten Since 2009 the people of Dimock, Pennsylvania, have insisted that, as natural gas companies drilled into their hillsides, shaking and fracturing their ground, their water had...
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SRSLY: Do As I Sell, Not As I Do
by David Epstein SRSLY The best reporting you probably missed David Epstein Welcome to SRSLY, an (experimental) newsletter highlighting under-exposed accountability journalism. We'll distill the...
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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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Germany Waves ‘Auf Wiedersehen’ to Costly Wall Street Tax Scheme
by Cezary Podkul The German Parliament voted Thursday to end a trading strategy that helps foreign investors, many of them Americans,avoid an estimated $1 billion or more a year in taxes on dividends...
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Sen. Warren Slams For-profit College Accreditor for ‘Appalling Record of...
by Annie Waldman Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., released a report today slamming an accreditor of for-profit colleges for its “appalling record of failure.” “Students and taxpayers have paid the...
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Why Are Hate Crime Statistics So Poorly Tracked?
by Adam Harris .player_box { display: none; } div.article-inline-image.Right.demobbed {display: none;} Last June, a gunman opened fire at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church – a historic black...
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The Senate’s Popular Sentencing Reform Bill Would Sort Prisoners By ‘Risk Score’
by Lauren Kirchner At a time when Democrats and Republicans in Congress can’t agree on just about anything, there is one issue that unites them: the urgent need for criminal justice reform. A Senate...
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On Agent Orange, VA Weighs Politics and Cost Along With Science
by Charles Ornstein, ProPublica, and Mike Hixenbaugh, The Virginian-Pilot, This story was co-published with the Virginian-Pilot. Last year, a group of federal scientists was debating whether as many...
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It’s Not Me, It’s You: Tips for Strong Relationships With Sources
by T. Christian Miller The Dig An investigative reporter’s candid advice for uncovering life’s everyday truths T. Christian Miller Later this week, many of the nation’s best investigative journalists...
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New York Lawmakers Race to Toughen Oversight of Nurses and Other Professionals
by Jessica Huseman and Rosalind Adams for ProPublica, Spurred by concerns about problem nurses, New York lawmakers are racing to pass legislation to toughen oversight of more than 50 types of licensed...
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Education Department Recommends Killing Accreditor of For-profit Colleges
by Annie Waldman Updated (Jun. 15, 2016): The article has been updated to include comment from ACICS. A much-criticized college accreditor that regulates hundreds of for-profit schools should have its...
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Senator: Red Cross Misled Congress, Refused To ‘Level With the People’ on...
by Justin Elliott, ProPublica, and Laura Sullivan, NPR, This story was co-published with NPR. A blistering Senate report on the American Red Cross raises fundamental questions about the integrity of...
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SRSLY: Everyone Has an Opinion, and Not Much Else…
by David Epstein SRSLY The best reporting you probably missed David Epstein Welcome to SRSLY, an (experimental) newsletter highlighting under-exposed accountability journalism. We'll distill the...
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Reliving Agent Orange: What The Children of Vietnam Vets Have To Say
by Terry Parris Jr. and Charles Ornstein, ProPublica, and Mike Hixenbaugh, The Virginian-Pilot For the past year, ProPublica and The Virginian-Pilot have examined how Agent Orange has impacted the...
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A Father’s War, A Son’s Toxic Inheritance
by Stephen M. Katz for ProPublica and The Virginian-Pilot, as told to Mike Hixenbaugh and Charles Ornstein This story was co-published with The Virginian-Pilot. The package from my father arrived in...
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