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Zombie Cookie: The Tracking Cookie That You Can’t Kill
by Julia Angwin and Mike TigasAn online advertising clearinghouse relied on by Google, Yahoo and Facebook is using controversial cookies that come back from the dead to track the web surfing of...
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For Nonprofit Hospitals Who Sue Patients, New Rules
by Paul KielLast month, ProPublica and NPR detailed how one nonprofit hospital in Missouri sued thousands of lower income workers who couldn't pay their bills, then seized their wages, all while...
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Flashbangs, a ‘Candy Land’ VA Center and More in MuckReads Weekly
by Terry Parris JrWhat one cop said to another after burning a pregnant woman with a flashbang grenade: "Y'all done fucked up." Flashbangs were originally designed for military-style hostage rescues....
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7 Reproductive Rights Issues to Watch in 2015
by Nina MartinTo say abortion opponents are feeling fired up in 2015 would be a massive understatement.In their first week back at work, congressional Republicans introduced a sweeping prohibition on...
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Zombie Cookies Slated to be Killed
by Julia Angwin and Mike TigasTech company Turn said it would stop using tracking cookies that are impossible to delete. The decision came in response to a ProPublica article this week that revealed...
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Podcast: The Horrifying Truth About Police Use of Flashbangs
by Sara Afzal .player_box { display: none; }When French special forces wanted to stun the hostage takers at the kosher supermarket in Paris, they threw flashbangs – modified grenades that emit a...
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Supreme Court’s Latest Race Case: Housing Discrimination
by Nikole Hannah-JonesThis week, the U.S. Supreme Court will take up one of the most important civil rights cases of the last decade. If you’ve never heard of Texas Department of Housing and Community...
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Senator to Hospitals: Stop Suing Poor Patients
by Paul Kiel, ProPublica, and Chris Arnold, NPR, This story was co-published with NPR.Sen. Charles Grassley said nonprofit hospitals could be breaking the law when they sue poor patients over unpaid...
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Why Pharma Payments to Doctors Were So Hard to Parse
by Charles Ornstein , Mike Tigas and Ryann Grochowski JonesThis story was co-published with the New York Times' The Upshot.You'd think drug and medical device makers would know how to spell the names...
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Obama Wants You to Have Cheap, Fast Internet, But Many Cities Aren’t Allowed...
by Leticia MirandaOn Tuesday evening during the State of the Union address, President Obama pledged "to protect a free and open Internet, extend its reach to every classroom, and every community, and...
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Using Your Tax Dollars to Fund This Cow’s Abnormal Triplets, Plus More From...
by Terry Parris JrCows normally have one calf, not twins or triplets. Pigs generally have eight piglets, not 14. "Easy care" sheep sounds more like a product than a herd left to die in the elements....
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Podcast: Why Tracking Is Scarier With Zombie Cookies
by Sara Afzal .player_box { display: none; }What are ‘zombie cookies’? Sadly, not innocent baked goods shaped like Halloween creatures, but a kind of tracking cookie that lives on your computer and...
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Pentagon Finally Identifies the Remains of a POW Lost Since 1942
by Megan McCloskey Missing overseas for 73 years, an American POW who perished in World War II is finally going home.Last week, the Pentagon officially identified the remains of Pvt. Arthur "Bud"...
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A Sheldon Silver Mystery: Did He Betray New York Renters?
by Justin ElliottWhen New York enacted a major rent regulation law in 2011, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver celebrated the passage of the legislation as a victory over real estate interests."Despite...
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U.S. Acknowledges Conviction of David Hicks, Guantanamo Detainee, Should Not...
by Raymond Bonner, Special to ProPublica, SYDNEY – The United States has acknowledged that the conviction of an Australian man held for nearly six years in Guantanamo Bay was not legally valid.The...
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True or False, the Power of Confessions is Great
by Joe SextonOver the next several months, defense lawyers for Pedro Hernandez will seek to undercut the central evidence against him: his videotaped confession to having killed 6-year-old Etan...
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What’s Really Happening with China’s Great Firewall
by Sisi WeiThree popular services that allow users in China to view otherwise-censored content have experienced outages over the past few days, a sign of increasing government efforts to limit what...
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Verizon Will Now Let Users Kill Previously Indestructible Tracking Code
by Julia AngwinVerizon says it will soon offer customers a way to opt out from having their smartphone and tablet browsing tracked via a hidden un-killable tracking identifier.The decision came after...
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We Are Treating Heroin Addiction Wrong Even Though We Know Better (MuckReads...
by Terry Parris JrWhy heroin addiction treatment is stuck in a "scientific dark age." Standard treatment for heroin addicts is not all that different today than it was decades ago: willpower over...
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Podcast: The Pentagon’s Failure to Find Long Lost Soldiers
by Sara Afzal .player_box { display: none; }Losing a loved one to war is hard enough but when thousands of U.S. soldiers missing overseas from combat in Vietnam, Korea and World War II have yet to...
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