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When a Wildlife Rehab Center Regulates Charter Schools: Inside the Wild World...
by Marian WangNestled in the woods of central Minnesota, near a large lake, is a nature sanctuary called the Audubon Center of the North Woods. The nonprofit rehabilitates birds. It hosts retreats and...
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Police Brutality from Chicago to Gitmo and More in MuckReads Weekly
by Amanda Zamora and Terry Parris Jr"Illegal ... immoral ... ineffective ... unconstitutional."That is how the deputy commander of a now-defunct Guantanamo task force described the interrogation...
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Podcast: When Those We Report On Complain
by Nicole Collins Bronzan .player_box { display: none; }Any good reporter takes requests for corrections very seriously, and the stakes are especially high for investigative journalists like...
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Newly Discovered Evidence is Latest Surprise in Patz Case
by Joe SextonFrom the moment Pedro Hernandez was indicted for the murder of Etan Patz, both prosecutors and defense lawyers recognized they faced a formidable task: locating, deciphering and sharing a...
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New York City Lays Out Limits on Restraints And Suspensions
by Annie WaldmanNew York City educators will face new restrictions on handcuffing students or suspending them from school, as part of regulations proposed earlier this month by the city’s education...
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Net Neutrality May Face an Uphill Battle If History Tells Us Anything
by Leticia MirandaThe Federal Communications Commission is scheduled to vote on a proposal today that effectively bars Internet companies from prioritizing some Internet traffic over others.As John...
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Fines Remain Rare Even As Health Data Breaches Multiply
by Charles OrnsteinThis story was co-published with NPR's Shots blog.In a string of meetings and press releases, the federal government’s health watchdogs have delivered a stern message: They are...
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Has Your Medical Privacy Been Compromised? Help ProPublica Investigate
. by Charles OrnsteinProPublica has been examining the ways in which patient privacy is protected or breached. We’ve previously written about how well hospitals have complied with the federal patient...
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Over 1,100 Health Data Breaches, but Few Fines
by Sisi Wei and Charles OrnsteinSince October 2009, health care organizations and their business partners reported 1,142 large-scale data breaches, each affecting at least 500 people, to the U.S....
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Data-Driven Sentencing May Punish the Poor and More in MuckReads Weekly
by Terry Parris Jr."If everybody's getting hooked up, nobody's going to say anything." Federal air marshals may have skipped some "high risk" flights that would not fit into their busy schedule of...
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Podcast: Protecting Your Health Data
by Nicole Collins Bronzan .player_box { display: none; } When hackers breached the IT system of the insurer Anthem, potentially gaining access to 80 million people's records, what exactly, were they...
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Coming Soon: ProPublica Investigates Workers’ Compensation
ProPublicaInsult to InjuryShare on FacebookShare on TwitterDonateFor nearly a century, American workers and their employers had a compact: A guarantee that after a workplace accident, employers would...
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Ebola-infected Nurse Contends Dallas Hospital Violated Her Privacy
by Charles OrnsteinIt was a touching scene, meant to buck up a hospital – and a community – shaken when one of its own nurses was infected with the Ebola virus. Last fall, when Dallas nurse Nina Pham...
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Alleged Patient Safety Kickbacks Lead To $1 Million Settlement
by Marshall AllenDr. Chuck Denham, once a leading voice for patient safety, will pay $1 million to settle civil allegations that he took kickbacks to promote a drug company's product in national...
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New York Legislation Would Make It a Felony to Film Patients Without Prior...
by Charles OrnsteinNewly proposed legislation would make it a felony in New York to film patients receiving medical treatment without prior consent.State Assemblyman Ed Braunstein, a Queens Democrat,...
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Behind Supreme Court’s Obamacare Case, A Secretive Society’s Hidden Hand
by Nina MartinThe Supreme Court has no shortage of potentially precedent-shattering cases on its docket this term. But the one the justices are hearing tomorrow, King v. Burwell, could be the most...
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‘I Try to Forget’
by Michael GrabellProPublicaInsult to InjuryShare on FacebookShare on TwitterCommentDonate‘I Try to Forget’Photographs by Patrick T. Fallon for ProPublica, captions by Michael GrabellMarch 4, 2015Joel...
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What Happens When Americans Are Hurt on the Job? Help ProPublica Investigate
. by Terry Parris Jr.In Alabama, if you lose an eye during the course of a workday, the most you’ll receive under the state’s workers’ compensation laws is $27,280. If you work in Pennsylvania, that...
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The Demolition of Workers’ Comp
by Michael GrabellProPublicaInsult to InjuryShare on FacebookShare on TwitterCommentDonateMatt Rota for ProPublicaThe Demolition of Workers’ CompOver the past decade, states have slashed workers’...
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Yes, Black America Fears the Police. Here’s Why.
by Nikole Hannah-JonesThis story was co-published with Politico Magazine.Last July 4, my family and I went to Long Island to celebrate the holiday with a friend and her family. After eating some...
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