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Government Releases Massive Trove of Data on Doctors’ Prescribing Patterns
by Charles OrnsteinThe federal government released detailed data today on nearly 1.4 billion prescriptions dispensed to seniors and disabled people in the Medicare program in 2013, bringing more...
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Results of Our Latest Reader Survey
by Richard TofelThe results of our recent reader survey are in — thanks to the more than 2,200 who responded — and we wanted to share them with you.The findings are largely consistent with prior...
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A Pharmaceutical Mass Murder and More In MuckReads Weekly
by Terry Parris Jr. h3 { font-size:1.2em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-top:1.4em; } blockquote { line-height: 1.5em; } Some of the best #MuckReads we read this week. Want to receive these by email? Sign...
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MuckReads Podcast: Liz Sly on Reporting From the Middle East
by Nicole Collins Bronzan .player_box { display: none; } From her perch as The Washington Post's Beirut bureau chief, Liz Sly is on “the front lines of post-9/11 foreign policy,” ProPublica’s Eric...
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Higher Ed Lobby Quietly Joins For-Profit Schools to Roll Back Tighter Rules
by Alec MacGillisThe Obama administration is set to achieve one of its top domestic policy goals after years of wrangling. For-profit colleges, which absorb tens of billions of dollars in U.S. grants...
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Unsolved Killing of American Nuns in Liberia an Open Case Again
by T. Christian MillerIn October 1992, five American nuns were killed during brutal fighting in Liberia's civil war. The FBI mounted an investigation, but no one was ever arrested, and the case was...
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Injured Worker in ProPublica/NPR Story Testifies Before Illinois Legislature
by Michael GrabellAn injured worker featured in a ProPublica and NPR investigation into the rollback of workers' compensation nationwide warned Illinois lawmakers on Tuesday not to make the same...
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The Best Articles on the Era of Big Campaign Spending
With the presidential field already getting crowded, it's never too early to look at the ever increasing role of money in politics. Here are the best stories we've come across over the past few...
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The Human Toll of Your Mani Pedi and More in Muckreads Weekly
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Jury Can’t Reach Verdict in Patz Murder Case
by Joe Sexton Updated On Nov. 13, 2012, the Manhattan District Attorney announced the indictment of Pedro Hernandez for the murder of Etan Patz, the 6-year-old boy who famously disappeared in 1979 on...
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MuckReads Podcast: The Challenge of Covering Characters Who Won’t Talk
by Minhee Cho .player_box { display: none; } In her reporting on Vladimir Putin and, most recently, the Boston Marathon bombers, noted Russian author and journalist Masha Gessen has specialized in...
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‘Incommunicado’ Forever: Gitmo Detainee’s Case Stalled For 2,477 Days And...
by Raymond Bonner, Special to ProPublica, This story was co-published with Politico.Since being seized in a raid in Pakistan in 2002, Abu Zubaydah has had his life controlled by American officials,...
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How Illinois’ Pension Debt Blew Up Chicago’s Credit
by Allan Sloan, The Washington Post, and Cezary Podkul, ProPublica, What happens when you’ve been kicking the fiscal can down the road for years, but the road suddenly hits a dead end? That’s what...
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NSA Surveillance Lawsuit Tracker
by Kara Brandeisky A federal appeals court recently ruled that the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of Americans’ phone records is illegal.
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Juror and Former Officer Raise Doubt About Patz Prosecution
by Joaquin Sapien Robert McKenna spent more than two decades with the New York City Police Department, but he has no trouble remembering the days and nights of late May 1979, when much of the city was...
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Money as a Weapons System
by Megan McCloskey , Sisi Wei , Mike Tigas , Jeff Larson and Ryann Grochowski Jones How U.S. commanders spent $2 billion of petty cash in Afghanistan
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Thousands of Baltimore Detainees Refused Medical Care and More in MuckReads...
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Reporting on the NSA Before It Was Cool
by Nicole Collins Bronzan .player_box { display: none; } As a reporter who covered the National Security Agency before before the Edward Snowden documents brought it to the mainstream, Patrick Radden...
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Overuse, Safety Questions Cloud Advair’s Ascent to Asthma Blockbuster
by Jeff Gerth This story was co-published with The Daily Beast.Advair is one of the biggest blockbusters in pharmaceutical history. The asthma drug has generated more than $80 billion in global...
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Boondoggle HQ
by Megan McCloskey and Vince Dixon The $25 Million Building in Afghanistan Nobody Needed
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