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Trump’s Call for a Flood of Poll Watchers Could Disrupt Some Voting Places
by Patrick G. Lee This story was co-published with Mother Jones. Donald Trump’s campaign website implores voters to “Help Me Stop Crooked Hillary From Rigging This Election!” by signing up as...
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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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Another Unrealistic Trump Policy Proposal: Homeschool Vouchers
by Jessica Huseman GOP nominee Donald Trump has said he plans to spend billions of dollars on so-called school choice programs. The $20 billion in federal funds would be available only to what he says...
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How Washington Blew Its Best Chance to Fix Immigration
by Alec MacGillis This story was co-published with The New York Times Magazine. ProPublica The Breakdown Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate How Washington Blew Its Best Chance to Fix...
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SRSLY: This Should Superbug You
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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Police Departments Are Becoming Mini-NSAs: MuckReads Weekly
by Sarah Smith Note: After this week, we’re going to be putting MuckReads Weekly on ice for a bit as we juggle a few things and think about how to make it better. Police departments collect...
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The Hidden Toll of Drug-Resistant Superbugs
by Marshall Allen .player_box { display: none; } div.article-inline-image.Right.demobbed {display: none;} Just 17 days old, Josiah Cooper-Pope died in the hospital after he was infected with a...
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Amazon Says It Puts Customers First. But Its Pricing Algorithm Doesn’t.
by Julia Angwin and Surya Mattu One day recently, we visited Amazon’s website in search of the best deal on Loctite super glue, the essential home repair tool for fixing everything from broken...
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Teenage Girl Dies After Incident at For-profit Group Home
by Heather Vogell Updated (Sep. 20, 2016): The Maryland Department of Human Resources said late Tuesday that it has terminated its contract with AdvoServ after determining “it is in the best interest...
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If It Needs a Sign, It’s Probably Bad Design
by Lena Groeger This story was co-published with Source. Visual Evidence Data and design in everyday life Lena Groeger The EpiPen, the potentially life-saving device that delivers a dose of medicine...
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Which Voters Show Up When States Allow Early Voting?
by Sarah Smith According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, 37 states now offer voters some way to cast ballots early and avoid lining up at the polls on Election Day. These options are...
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Education Department Terminates Agency That Allowed Predatory For-profit...
by Annie Waldman The Education Department announced today that it is stripping the powers of one of the nation’s largest accreditors of for-profit schools. The Accrediting Council for Independent...
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Doctor Confesses: I Lied to Protect Colleague in Malpractice Suit
by Marshall Allen This story was co-published with NPR's Shots blog. Almost two decades ago Dr. Lars Aanning sat on the witness stand in a medical malpractice trial and faced a dilemma. The South...
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SRSLY: All In The [EpiPen] Family
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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Amazon Defends Its Pricing Algorithm, But Leaves Out Billions in Sales
by Eric Umansky Earlier this week, we reported how Amazon often makes its products look like better deals than they actually are. When the website ranks products by price that are available from...
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Uncovering Texas’ Strategy to Slash Much-Needed Special Education Services
by Charles Ornstein .player_box { display: none; } div.article-inline-image.Right.demobbed {display: none;} Federal law mandates that school districts provide special education services to students...
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Donald Trump and the Return of Seditious Libel
by Richard Tofel A Closer Look Examining the news Richard Tofel In 1733, New York printer John Peter Zenger began publishing the eighth newspaper in the American colonies, and the first willing to...
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Uncommon Contract Holds Promise for California Group Home’s Too Familiar Ills
by Joaquin Sapien Last year, the Edgewood Center for Children and Families in San Francisco became the scene of a rare struggle: a bid to unionize workers who provide care and oversight to some of...
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Breaking the Black Box: What Facebook Knows About You
by Julia Angwin , Terry Parris Jr. and Surya Mattu ProPublica Machine Bias Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate Episode 1 Facebook Episode 2 Coming Oct. 5 Episode 3 Coming Oct. 12 Episode...
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In Wells Fargo Case, News Really Did Happen To An Editor
by Stephen Engelberg Several years after I returned to New York from Oregon, I made a strange discovery. Bank accounts I was certain I had closed were inexplicably racking up service charges. It...
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