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Attorney General Holder Requires Recording of Interrogations, Unlike New York...
by Joaquin SapienAttorney General Eric Holder has ordered federal law enforcement agents to record all interrogations with suspects in custody.The policy was outlined in a memo sent to the Federal...
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House Committee Puts NSA on Notice Over Encryption Standards
by Justin ElliottAn amendment adopted by a House committee would, if enacted, take a step toward removing the National Security Agency from the business of meddling with encryption standards that...
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Podcast: A Bailout Botched by Centrists
by Nicole Collins Bronzan .player_box { display: none; }If former Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner has faced his share of criticism for his rocky tenure, Jesse Eisinger says, his new book makes...
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N.Y. Attorney General Pressed Red Cross on Post-Sandy Spending, Then Retreated
by Justin ElliottLast month we explored the role of the American Red Cross after Hurricane Sandy and the lack of transparency in how the charity spent more than $300 million raised after the storm....
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Tyson Gay’s Coach Says He Didn’t Give Sprinter Banned Substances
by David EpsteinLast week, prominent sprint coach and Olympic gold medalist Jon Drummond unmasked himself as the target of a U.S. Anti-Doping Agency investigation when he filed a defamation lawsuit in...
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The Best Reporting on Guns in America
by Blair Hickman , Hanqing Chen , Cora Currier , Lois Beckett and Suevon LeeUpdate: With last weekend's shootings in Santa Barbara, this collection, first published July 24, 2012, unfortunately seems...
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Medicare Overpays Billions for Office Visits, Patient Evaluations
by Charles OrnsteinMedicare spent $6.7 billion too much for office visits and other patient evaluations in 2010, according to a new report from the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Health...
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Should a Mental Illness Mean You Lose Your Kid?
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Podcast: Mental Illness and Parenting
by Nicole Collins Bronzan .player_box { display: none; }When is a mere diagnosis of mental illness enough to sever a parent’s ties to her child? And how much effort must child welfare officials...
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Startling Sidebar: Brooklyn Judge Gave Political Advice to Borough’s Top...
by Joe SextonThe correspondence between the senior Brooklyn judge and the longtime district attorney is remarkable even for the often troubled world of Brooklyn politics. On a near daily basis, the...
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For a Respected Prosecutor, An Unpardonable Failure
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The Veterans Affairs Scandal and More #MuckReads on VA Health Care
by Hanqing ChenThe scandal surrounding long wait times within the Veterans Affairs' health care system has garnered national attention as VA secretary Eric Shinseki resigned amidst growing opposition...
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To Protect Service Members, Defense Department Plans Broad Ban on High-Cost...
by Paul KielThe Department of Defense, attempting to thwart the ever-changing tactics of high-cost lenders, plans to dramatically broaden a federal law that sought to protect service members by...
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Where Do the Guns Traced in Your State Come From?
by Eric SagaraNearly a third of the 155,000 guns officials recovered in 2012 were traced back to sources outside the state they were found in, according to data compiled by the Bureau of Alcohol,...
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MuckReads Podcast: The Peril of Whistleblowing on Wall St.
by Nicole Collins Bronzan .player_box { display: none; }“Whistleblowing is not for the faint-hearted—and especially not on Wall Street.” So begins William D. Cohan’s latest piece for the Financial...
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Myth vs. Fact: Violence and Mental Health
by Lois BeckettAfter mass shootings, like the ones these past weeks in Las Vegas, Seattle and Santa Barbara, the national conversation often focuses on mental illness. So what do we actually know...
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Hyperspecialization Is Ruining Youth Sports—And the Kids Who Play Them
by David EpsteinEditor's Note: This op-ed was co-published with The New York Times. It is not subject to our Creative Commons license.The national furor over concussions misses the primary scourge...
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Why Online Tracking Is Getting Creepier
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Medicare Taken For a Ride By Ambulance Companies in New Jersey
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Ambulances for Dialysis Patients on Rise
by Eric SagaraNew Jersey leads the nation in average annual Medicare spending on ambulance services per dialysis patient, billing for unusually large numbers of non-emergency ambulance rides,...
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