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Refugee Labor is Cheap, Children’s Labor is Cheaper: MuckReads Weekly
by Adam Harris Some of the best #MuckReads we read this week. Want to receive these by email? Sign up to get this briefing delivered to your inbox every weekend. In Turkey, Syrian refugee labor is...
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Making Algorithms Accountable
by Julia Angwin This story was co-published with The New York Times. Algorithms are ubiquitous in our lives. They map out the best route to our destination and help us find new music based on what we...
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An Overdue Examination of Detroit’s Forgotten Rape Kits
by Annie Waldman .player_box { display: none; } div.article-inline-image.Right.demobbed {display: none;} Over 11,000 untested rape kits were found in a Detroit police warehouse in 2009. Some of the...
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Lawmakers to Question Executive of New Jersey’s Controversial Student Loan...
by Annie Waldman The New Jersey State Senate has announced it will hold a hearing to examine the state’s student loan agency, which administers the largest state-based loan program in the country and...
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After Louisiana Flooding, the Red Cross Draws a Deluge of Complaints
by Sarah Smith Three months after record floods swept through Louisiana in March, the government officials in charge of disaster response set up a post-mortem with area Red Cross staffers. The...
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On Eve of Olympics, Top Investigator Details Secret Efforts to Undermine...
by David Epstein This story was co-published with the BBC. Q&A Sections IOC Votes Against Blanket Ban WADA Waits to Investigate Leaking to the Media Stunned That Russia Is Given an Out Punishing...
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Wrongfully Convicted Louisiana Man Asks Justice Department to Investigate New...
by Joaquin Sapien Throughout the 1990s, senior New Orleans prosecutor Jim Williams kept a model electric chair on his desk. The chair held photographs of five African-American men his office had...
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Discovery TV to Air Film Inspired by Our Water Crisis Reporting
by Joe Sexton ProPublica’s reporting on the water crisis in the American West was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in national reporting. Informed. Surprising. Damning. Engaging and enraging....
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‘White Trash’ — The Original Underclass
by Alec MacGillis This story was co-published with the Atlantic. Sometime during the past few years, the country started talking differently about white Americans of modest means. Early in the Obama...
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SRSLY: Show Me The Money! Or, At Least Where It Came From… Or, Ah, Never Mind
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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The Olympic ‘Movement’ That Keeps Athletes Poor: MuckReads Weekly
by Adam Harris Some of the best #MuckReads we read this week. Want to receive these by email? Sign up to get this briefing delivered to your inbox every weekend. Every few years, the Olympics bring in...
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U.S. Attorney Asks Court to Reconsider Countrywide Loan Case
by Jesse Eisinger Preet Bharara is not giving up on bringing civil charges for “the Hustle.” In an unusual move, the U.S. attorney for Manhattan’s Southern District has asked a three-judge panel on...
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Heresy: A Reporter Investigates Evidence That Jesus Had a Wife
by Joaquin Sapien .player_box { display: none; } div.article-inline-image.Right.demobbed {display: none;} Walter Fritz had been an East German museum director, a real estate agent, an auto-parts...
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Federal Health Officials Seek to Stop Social Media Abuse of Nursing Home...
by Charles Ornstein and Jessica Huseman This story was co-published with NPR's Shots blog. Federal health regulators have announced plans to crack down on nursing home employees who take demeaning...
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New Jersey Senate Examines Controversial Student Loan Agency
by Annie Waldman This story was co-published with The New York Times. Almost a dozen people with harrowing experiences with New Jersey’s controversial student loan program testified on Monday before...
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Looks Can Kill: The Deadly Results of Flawed Design
by Lena Groeger Visual Evidence Data and design in everyday life Lena Groeger Earlier this summer, 27-year-old actor Anton Yelchin was crushed to death when his Jeep Grand Cherokee rolled downhill,...
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While in the White House, Economist Received Personal Loans From Top...
by Jesse Eisinger In 2011, Gene Sperling had a problem. He was working as President Obama’s chief economic advisor but his government salary did not cover his expenses. He and his wife lived in a...
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I Spent My Summer Tracking Down Government Records About the Red Cross
by Clifford Michel, ProPublica, As a grant recipient of the Knight-CUNYJ Summer Internship Program, Clifford Michel had the opportunity to spend the summer working at ProPublica while attending...
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2016 Election Lawsuit Tracker: The New Election Laws and the Suits...
by Sarah Smith New law Law on hold or overturned New law in place, litigation pending New law on hold or overturned, litigation pending Fifteen states will have laws in place this Election Day that...
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SRSLY: The Opposite of a Perfect ‘10’
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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