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Red Cross Holds a Press Conference In Haiti. It Doesn’t Go Well.
by Justin Elliott Haitian journalists grilled an American Red Cross official Wednesday about the group’s Haiti program, but the official declined to provide any new details of how it spent nearly $500...
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More Athletes Say Track Coach Alberto Salazar Broke Drug Rules
by David Epstein Updated (Jun. 12, 2015): Allegations that Alberto Salazar, the most powerful coach in U.S. track, has violated the sport’s medical and anti-doping rules intensified this week with...
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Investigating That Addictive Cheetos Flavor 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?...
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The Times’s Eric Lipton on DC’s Ecosystem of Influence
by Nicole Collins Bronzan .player_box { display: none; } With Pulitzers for both explanatory and investigative reporting under his belt, New York Times Reporter Eric Lipton knows more than a little...
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Elite Runner Had Qualms When Alberto Salazar Told Her to Use Asthma Drug for...
by David Epstein Over the past two weeks, ProPublica and the BBC have reported allegations from professional runners and their support staff that iconic coach Alberto Salazar — head of the Nike Oregon...
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6 Tips for Protecting Your Communications From Prying Eyes
by Julia Angwin This is the latest in a series we've done about how to protect your privacy. This post is based on a tip sheet that I prepared for a panel discussion about how journalists can...
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5 Tips for Donating After Disasters
Earlier this month we published an investigation with NPR into the American Red Cross' failures in Haiti. We've gotten a lot of questions from readers (including on Reddit) wondering what to do next...
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The Bakken Has a ‘Serial Killer’ and It’s The Oil Boom (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?...
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Headline Writing With an NYT Guru
by Nicole Collins Bronzan .player_box { display: none; } When retired New York Post editor Vincent Musetto died this month, the Internet fondly revisited his famous 1983 headline on a story about a...
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Fraud Still Plagues Medicare Drug Program, Watchdog Finds
by Charles Ornstein This article has been corrected. Fraud and abuse continue to dog Medicare's popular prescription drug program despite a bevy of initiatives launched to prevent them, according to...
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Are You a Vietnam Veteran? Help Us Investigate the Impact of Agent Orange
by Charles Ornstein figure.main { display: none; } U.S. Army operations 1959-1975 (The Vietnam Center and Archive, Texas Tech University) ProPublica and The Virginian-Pilot are exploring the ways...
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Widespread Problems With Group Home Agency Prompt City to Cut Ties
by Joaquin Sapien Three weeks after three teens allegedly raped a woman after fleeing a group home in Brooklyn, New York City has ended its multimillion-dollar contract with the nonprofit social...
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Alberto Salazar Disputes Allegations — Some of Which Were Never Made
by David Epstein Three weeks after ProPublica and the BBC reported allegations that Alberto Salazar, the iconic coach of the Nike Oregon Project, had experimented with testosterone and broken drug...
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California’s Drought Is Part of a Much Bigger Water Crisis. Here’s What You...
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Living Apart: How the Government Betrayed a Landmark Civil Rights Law
by Nikole Hannah-Jones Update, June 25, 2015: The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the landmark federal Fair Housing Act protects Americans from discrimination in where they choose to live, even when...
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How States Are Fighting to Keep Towns From Offering Their Own Broadband
by Leticia Miranda Earlier this year, the Federal Communications Commission voted to ease the way for cities to become Internet service providers. So-called municipal broadband is already a reality in...
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The Government Experiment That Tested Mustard Gas on ‘Black Skins’ (MuckReads...
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?...
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Reporting on Risky Bond Deals
by Nicole Collins Bronzan .player_box { display: none; } ProPublica reporter Cezary Podkul has done enough reporting on risky bond deals that when he came across Jason Grotto and Heather Gillers’...
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Justice Alito Defends Lethal Injection Expert Who Did His Research on Drugs.com
by Annie Waldman On Monday, the Supreme Court voted 5-4 to uphold Oklahoma’s use of midazolam, a controversial sedative that is used as part of its three-drug lethal injection protocol. The case,...
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What Chris Christie Didn’t Say at His Campaign Kickoff
by Cezary Podkul Now that Chris Christie is officially running for president, his record as governor of New Jersey will be getting a lot more scrutiny. As we reported with The Washington Post in...
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