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Eight Times Agent Orange’s Biggest Defender Has Been Wrong or Misleading
by Charles Ornstein and Sisi Wei For decades, the government has relied on Alvin Young to advise it on herbicides. Here are some of his statements, and what others have said about them.
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After Cancer Diagnosis, Vet Refutes Government’s Agent Orange Expert — And Wins
by Charles Ornstein For years, the U.S. military and Department of Veterans Affairs have used the work of a Wyoming-based herbicide expert to flatly reject the claims of groups of veterans who believe...
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Dr. Orange: The Secret Nemesis of Sick Vets
by Charles Ornstein, ProPublica, and Mike Hixenbaugh, The Virginian-Pilot, ProPublica Reliving Agent Orange Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate Matt Rota, special to ProPublica Dr....
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How a Tip About Habitat for Humanity Became a Whole Different Story
by Marcelo Rochabrun This story was co-published with IRE. Last August, I obtained dozens of internal documents from the New York City affiliate of Habitat for Humanity. The story my sources had in...
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Facebook Lets Advertisers Exclude Users by Race
by Julia Angwin and Terry Parris Jr. Imagine if, during the Jim Crow era, a newspaper offered advertisers the option of placing ads only in copies that went to white readers. That’s basically what...
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SRSLY: Dr. Orange, I Presume
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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Sustained Objections
by Ryan Gabrielson This story was co-published with the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Tom Pitaro, a prominent Las Vegas defense attorney, took a seat in the back of Chief Judge Joe Bonaventure’s...
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Unreliable and Unchallenged
by Ryan Gabrielson This story was co-published with the Las Vegas Review-Journal. At the outset of the 1990s, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department began making thousands of arrests every year...
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Polling, Explained
by Jessica Huseman .player_box { display: none; } div.article-inline-image.Right.demobbed {display: none;} Harry Enten, a reporter and analyst at FiveThirtyEight, writes frequently about polling and...
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Reporting Recipe: Election Administration Data From Electionland
by Derek Willis and Jessica Huseman This month we published an interactive story that helps readers understand how elections are actually run all over the U.S. It’s based on data from the 2012...
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Taking Cues, and Some Projects, From Sunlight Labs
by Scott Klein Late last month, a pioneer of the civic-tech and open-data movements announced they were changing direction in a big way. The Sunlight Foundation, founded a decade ago to advocate for a...
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The Dig: Yes, Tammy Duckworth’s Family Has Served in the Military for Centuries
by Derek Kravitz, ProPublica, The Dig An investigative reporter's candid advice for uncovering life’s everyday truths Derek Kravitz During a debate last week, Illinois Republican Sen. Mark Kirk mocked...
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Camera Catches Shoving Match with Group Home Worker Before Teenager’s Heart...
by Heather Vogell As she waited in a Delaware hospital for her daughter to die, Carla Thomas watched a silent video of the teenager’s last conscious hour. The video showed Janaia Barnhart, 15,...
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Lawmakers to Facebook: Don’t Let Advertisers Exclude by Race
by Eric Umansky Four members of Congress wrote Facebook Tuesday demanding that the company stop giving advertisers the option of excluding by ethnic group. The letter came in response to ProPublica’s...
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How Voter Fraud Works — And Mostly Doesn’t
by Susie Cagle for ProPublica, Every election season, cries that voter fraud will threaten the legitimacy of American democracy can be heard throughout the country. Critics say these claims are...
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New York City Police Receptive to Some Reforms of Nuisance Enforcement
by Sarah Ryley for ProPublica and the New York Daily News, This story was co-published with the New York Daily News. The New York Police Department expressed willingness to compromise on a package of...
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Clay Pigeons: How Lobbyists Secretly Woo Top Election Officials
by Robert Faturechi, ProPublica and Eric Lipton, The New York Times, This story was co-published with The New York Times. Big-money corporate lobbying has reached into one of the most obscure corners...
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Where Traditional DNA Testing Fails, Algorithms Take Over
by Lauren Kirchner Late on a hot August night in 2014, Syracuse, New York, police tried to pull over a car driving without headlights. The driver and passenger fled into a darkened park. As the...
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Defense Lawyers in Las Vegas Consider Formal Challenge to Use of Field Tests...
by Ryan Gabrielson A prominent organization of defense lawyers in Las Vegas this week formed a committee to explore ways of challenging local law enforcement’s methods for gaining drug convictions....
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Would Wall Street Have a Place in a Clinton Administration?
by Alec MacGillis This story was co-published with The New Yorker. On Oct. 29, 2013, Hillary Clinton joined Lloyd Blankfein, the CEO of Goldman Sachs, for a discussion at its Builders and Innovators...
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