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Uber Claims Credit for Drop in Drunk Driving Accidents. But Where’s the...
by Ryann Grochowski JonesLast week Uber revealed another way the ridesharing service is revolutionizing travel: Cities that use Uber see a reduction in drunk driving accidents among young people, a...
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Firestone and the Warlord
by T. Christian Miller and Jonathan Jones, closeSave Your SpotEnter your email address and we’ll send you a bookmark to your current spot. It remembers what page you’re on and how far you’ve scrolled,...
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Lethal Rejection: Will the Supreme Court’s Lethal Injection Review Kill the...
by Annie WaldmanLast week, the Supreme Court put three executions in Oklahoma on hold as it reviews the constitutionality of the state's death penalty protocol.If the nation's top court strikes down...
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The World’s Email Encryption Software Relies on One Guy, Who is Going Broke
by Julia AngwinThe man who built the free email encryption software used by whistleblower Edward Snowden, as well as hundreds of thousands of journalists, dissidents and security-minded people around...
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Sen. Warren, Rep. Cummings Press Federal Reserve For Details of Leak...
by Jake BernsteinTwo congressional Democrats have asked the Federal Reserve Board for a briefing about its investigation into a leak of confidential Fed policy deliberations two years ago.Sen....
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Huge Prescriber of Risky Antipsychotic Drug to Plead Guilty to Taking Kickbacks
by Charles OrnsteinA former Chicago psychiatrist who was the nation's top prescriber of the most powerful and riskiest antipsychotic drug intends to plead guilty to a federal felony charge of taking...
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States Fail to Keep School Vaccination Data and More in MuckReads Weekly
by Amanda ZamoraHow prepared are U.S. schools for measles? Most states don't keep those records.A USA Today analysis found just 13 states met federal standards for collecting school-level immunization...
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Unapproved, but Used in Surgery
by Marshall Allen and Olga PierceThis story was co-published with the New York Times.Carla Muss-Jacobs didn't give much thought to the tools her surgeon would use to replace her knee. Like most...
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Housing Enforcement Group Sues M&T Bank for Discrimination
by Nikole Hannah-JonesOne of the nation's largest banks discriminates against black, Latino and Asian homebuyers by offering lesser qualified white borrowers higher loan amounts and using hidden...
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Podcast: Uber’s Dodgy Drunk Driving Study
by Minhee Cho .player_box { display: none; }In January, Uber reported that cities using its ridesharing service have seen a reduction in drunk driving accidents, particularly among young people. But...
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Virginia Passes Bill to Rein in Restraints of School Kids
by Heather VogellVirginia lawmakers have passed a bill requiring state leaders to set limits on how public schools can restrain or isolate students.Last summer, ProPublica and NPR reported that new...
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Alberto Nisman and Argentina’s History of Assassinations and Suspicious Suicides
by Sebastian RotellaA year and a half ago, I talked to Alberto Nisman, the Argentine special prosecutor whose mysterious death has made international headlines.I didn't know Nisman, but I knew the...
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Judge in Patz Case Forced to Justify Secrecy Decisions
by Joe SextonSeveral news organizations have filed court papers seeking to compel the judge in the Etan Patz murder case to make public aspects of the trial he has so far kept secret. The proceedings...
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Connecticut Schools Pin Down and Restrain ‘Staggering’ Number of Kids
by Annie WaldmanConnecticut public schools are far too quick to restrain or isolate unruly children against their will, leaving hundreds with injuries and many others with unmet educational needs, a...
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Internet Censorship in China: We’ll Sing it for You
by Sisi Wei and Yue Qiu #censorship-song { height: 335px; } @media screen and (max-width: 800px){ #censorship-song { height: 380px !important; } } @media screen and (max-width: 480px){...
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A History of Violence: Accusations But No Justice in Liberia
by T. Christian MillerChristopher Vambo had been accused by Catholic church officials and others of being responsible for the 1992 murder of five American nuns. Prince Johnson had overseen the torture...
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VA Center’s ‘Flat Stanley’ Research Claims and More in MuckReads Weekly
by Amanda ZamoraLeaky stoves. Backed-up sewage. Mold. These are the types of conditions Florida health inspectors are supposed to deter in more than 800 migrant labor camps across the state. But a...
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Podcast: An Expert’s Take on a High-Profile ‘Suicide’ in Argentina
by Nicole Collins Bronzan .player_box { display: none; }Sebastian Rotella knows Argentina.A longtime foreign correspondent who spent five years in Buenos Aires, Rotella has an expert grasp of the...
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In Complicated Patz Case, Informant Could Testify About Suspect Not on Trial
by Joaquin SapienIn the late 1980s, Stuart GraBois, a federal prosecutor in New York, had become obsessed with the disappearance of a 6-year-old boy named Etan Patz. GraBois had worked with the...
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Red Cross Demands Corrections to Our ‘Misleading’ Coverage. Here’s Our Response
by Justin Elliott and Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica, and Laura Sullivan, NPR, The American Red Cross recently sent ProPublica and NPR a request for corrections to our series of stories about the charity's...
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