Is This Man the Next Pope? A Guide to the Best Stories on Cardinal Sean O’Malley
by Christie Thompson Update: Cardinals have elected Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina to become the next pope. Check out National Catholic Reporter's profile of the new leader of the Catholic Church....
View ArticleAn Exchange About California’s Redistricting Process
by Olga Pierce and Jeff Larson In December 2011 we published a story about Democrats in Congress influencing the activities of the California Citizens Redistricting Commission. Last month, we received...
View ArticleYet Another Bank Fined for a Magnetar Deal, With Yet More Revealing Emails
by Cora Currier .DC-note-container {margin-bottom: 12px;} Deutsche Bank is the latest financial institution to be fined for not warning investors about the role of the hedge fund Magnetar in creating...
View ArticleInside Game: Creating PACs and then Spending Their Money
by Kim Barker In August 2008, as the right wing of the Republican Party grew increasingly disenchanted with the party’s direction, the men from Russo, Marsh and Associates sensed opportunity: They...
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U.N. Think Tank Opening Office in Bahrain, with Bahraini Government Funding
by Justin Elliott As Bahrain enters the third year of a crisis sparked by Arab Spring protests in 2011, the government continues to bar many human rights advocates and journalists from entering the...
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A Colorblind Constitution: What Abigail Fisher’s Affirmative Action Case Is...
by Nikole Hannah-Jones When the NAACP began challenging Jim Crow laws across the South, it knew that, in the battle for public opinion, the particular plaintiffs mattered as much as the facts of the...
View ArticleMuckReads Podcast: Inside Washington Rule-Making, AKA ‘The Seventh Circle of...
by Theodoric Meyer The cover story in the current issue of the Washington Monthly delves into what sounds like a dull subject — the federal "rule-making" process — and manages to make it exciting. The...
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Discussion: How Do Data Brokers Impact You?
by Christie Thompson Earlier this month, Lois Beckett detailed everything we know about the data companies selling your personal information — from how much you make to whether you’re on a diet....
View ArticleDrilling Deeper: The Wealth of Business Connections for Obama’s Energy Pick
by Justin Elliott When President Obama nominated Ernest Moniz to be energy secretary earlier this month, he hailed the nuclear physicist as a “brilliant scientist” who, among his many talents, had...
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Cash, Cars and Contracts: IBM, HP and Oracle in the Crosshairs of Overseas...
by Stephen Engelberg, ProPublica, and Robert Socha, Special to ProPublica In the buttoned-down world of government officials who oversee computer contracts, Poland’s Andrzej Machnacz cut a colorful...
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When Harm in the Hospital Follows You Home
by Olga Pierce “How is it possible to move past medical harm when every single aspect of life is impacted by it – when absolutely everything a person believed about doctors, lawyers, oversight...
View ArticleA Public Indictment Could Shed Light on CIA’s Secret Program
by Cora Currier Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn unsealed an indictment Wednesday charging Ibrahim Suleiman Adnan Adam Harun with six terrorism-related counts. The announcement that Harun is in U.S....
View ArticleGE Failed to Adequately Warn about Dangers of its MRI Dye, Jury Finds
by Jeff Gerth In a setback for GE Healthcare, a jury today found that the company failed to adequately warn patients and doctors about the dangers of its medical imaging dye. The jurors awarded $5...
View ArticlePodcast: The Facts Behind the Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action Case
by Minhee Cho Abigail Fisher, the 23-year-old plaintiff in the affirmative action case currently before the Supreme Court, has been portrayed as the textbook example of reverse discrimination. She was...
View ArticleHow the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing
by Liz Day This story was co-produced with NPR. Imagine filing your income taxes in five minutes — and for free. You'd open up a pre-filled return, see what the government thinks you owe, make any...
View ArticleAnother Race Case for a Hostile Supreme Court
by Nikole Hannah-Jones March 26: This post has been corrected. Little doubt exists that the Supreme Court's most conservative justices want to do away with affirmative action and other race-conscious...
View ArticleCriminal Injustice: The Best Reporting on Wrongful Convictions (#MuckReads)
by Theodoric Meyer and Christie Thompson In 1991, an unemployed printer named David Ranta was convicted of killing a Hasidic rabbi in Brooklyn. Last week, Ranta was released from the maximum-security...
View ArticleFriend of the Court: How Anthony Lewis Influenced the Justices He Covered
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