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Aaron Schock’s Mileage Meltdown and More in MuckReads Weekly
by Amanda Zamora h3 { line-height: 1.2em; margin-top:1.2em; }Some of the best #MuckReads we read this week. Want to receive these by email? Sign up to get this briefing delivered to your inbox every...
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Progress and Controversy Arrive With New Rules for Fracking on Public Lands
by Abrahm LustgartenThe new rules announced Friday by the Obama administration governing how energy companies frack for oil and gas on federal lands managed to anger environmentalists and the industry...
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MuckReads Podcast: Gawker’s John Cook on Why He’s No ‘Journalist’
by Nicole Collins Bronzan .player_box { display: none; } John Cook doesn’t call himself a journalist. And, despite his title at Gawker Media – executive editor for investigations – he isn’t a fan of...
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How Much Water Do You Use? Help ProPublica Investigate Water Use in the U.S.
ProPublicaTapped OutShare on FacebookShare on TwitterDonateHow Much Water Do You Use? Help ProPublica Investigate Water Use in the U.S.We want to know how you use water at home — and how what you...
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California to Insurers: Don’t Use Workers’ Comp Law to Deny Approved Care
by Michael GrabellCalifornia labor officials have issued a warning to insurance companies that a new workers’ compensation law shouldn’t be used to reopen old cases and deny previously approved home...
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The Fallout of Workers’ Comp ‘Reforms’: 5 Tales of Harm
by Michael GrabellProPublicaInsult to InjuryShare on FacebookShare on TwitterCommentDonateNicolas Mercado, injured on the job in 2011.The Fallout of Workers’ Comp ‘Reforms’: 5 Tales of HarmInjured...
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We Investigated Workers’ Compensation in All 50 States. Ask Us Anything.
by Terry Parris Jr.Earlier this month, ProPublica published an investigation with NPR digging into the workers' compensation systems of all 50 states.Since 2003, more than 30 states have passed...
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What We Still Don’t Know About the Fed’s Leak Investigation
by Jake BernsteinLast December, ProPublica reported that confidential information from the Federal Reserve Board committee that sets the nation’s monetary policy had been leaked to a private investor...
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New York Still Charges Teenagers as Adults. Will Cuomo’s Bill Change That?
by Leticia MirandaIn the United States, 16-year-olds can’t vote or buy beer. But there is one place where they are treated as adults: New York state’s criminal justice system. New York is one of just...
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California Workers’ Comp Law Gets Criticism, Praise at Senate Hearing
by Michael GrabellAn architect of California’s recent workers’ comp reform testified Wednesday that the law was being misused by insurers and that the system may need to be streamlined to make it...
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Let The Game of Whack-A-Mole Begin: Feds Put Forward New Payday Rules
by Paul KielIf there’s any industry that has mastered the art of the loophole, it’s high-cost lending. When faced with unwanted regulation, lenders are well-practiced at finding an opening that will...
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Obamacare, Five Years In (MuckReads Edition)
by Annie Z. Yu h3 { line-height: 1.2em; margin-top:1.2em; }The Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010 and we're now in the second year since health insurance exchanges got up and running. So, how's...
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How is Obamacare Affecting You in 2015? Help Us Report on Problems, Progress...
by Terry Parris Jr.As Obamacare launched, we asked you to help us cover that story. One piece that came from your contributions was about Harum Helmy, an uninsured health reporter for a public radio...
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Private Emails Reveal Ex-Clinton Aide’s Secret Spy Network
by Jeff Gerth, ProPublica, and Sam Biddle, Gawker, This story was co-published with Gawker.Starting weeks before Islamic militants attacked the U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya, longtime...
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Has Mexico Become A Huge Mass Grave? And More In MuckReads Weekly
by Terry Parris Jr. h3 { line-height: 1.2em; margin-top:1.2em; }Some of the best #MuckReads we read this week. Want to receive these by email? Sign up to get this briefing delivered to your inbox...
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The Cost of a Cure: Medicare Spent $4.5 Billion on New Hepatitis C Drugs Last...
by Charles OrnsteinThis story was co-published with the Washington Post.Medicare spent $4.5 billion last year on new, pricey medications that cure the liver disease hepatitis C — more than 15 times...
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Podcast: Reporters Debate: To Feed the Twitter Trolls, or Not?
by Nicole Collins Bronzan .player_box { display: none; }To be a reporter in 2015, you all but have to be on Twitter. And that means wrestling with the daily question of just how much of yourself goes...
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How Have U.S. Efforts to Rebuild Afghanistan Gone? Help ProPublica Investigate
by Megan McCloskey Over the last 13 years, American taxpayers have footed an enormous bill on Afghan reconstruction projects — more inflation-adjusted dollars, in fact, than were spent on the Marshall...
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Billions Blown in Afghanistan Reconstruction Spending? (MuckReads Edition)
by Megan McCloskey h3 { line-height: 1.2em; margin-top:1.2em; }After routing the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001, the U.S. government began a now 13-year effort to stabilize and develop the country. It...
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Coming in April: ‘American Terrorist’
by Tom DetzelOn April 21, ProPublica and PBS’ Frontline investigate American-born terrorist David Coleman Headley, who helped plan the deadly 2008 siege on Mumbai. The film – an updated and expanded...
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