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5 Things We Learned Collecting 3,352 Stories About Agent Orange Exposure
by Terry Parris Jr. h1 { font-size: 2em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-top:.5em; } img { display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border: 1em; } It’s not the size of the community that...
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Hillary Clinton’s Mixed Record on Wall Street Belies Her Tough ‘Cut it Out’ Talk
by Jeff Gerth This story was co-published with The Daily Beast. During the Democratic debate last month, Hillary Clinton assured viewers she would be a president at least as tough on Wall Street as...
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Our Reading List for the Supreme Court’s Texas Abortion Case
by Nina Martin Update, Nov. 13, 2015: This list has been updated with an additional reading suggestion. The U.S. Supreme Court today accepted what could be its most important abortion case in a...
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The ‘Costco Warehouse of Narcotics’, Predictive Policing and More (MuckReads...
by Adam Harris 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 up...
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Terror in Little Saigon: An Objection and a Response
Frontline’s film, “Terror in Little Saigon,” and the accompanying ProPublica article, revisited a painful chapter in the Vietnamese-American experience. Since publication, we have heard from many...
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New Film, ‘A Day’s Work,’ Highlights Dangers of the Temp Industry
by Cynthia Gordy .player_box { display: none; } div.article-inline-image.Right.demobbed {display: none;} Ninety minutes into the first day of his first job, Day Davis, a 21-year-old temp worker, was...
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Interview a Vietnam Veteran With ProPublica and StoryCorps
by Amanda Zamora This summer, ProPublica and our partners at The Virginian-Pilot asked Vietnam-era veterans to help us investigate the generational impact of Agent Orange exposure by sharing their...
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Terror in Paris and Beirut: An ISIS Reading Guide
by Adam Harris On November 13, terrorists hit Paris with a series of coordinated attacks — France's deadliest since World War II. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) claimed responsibility for...
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Privacy Not Included: Federal Law Lags Behind New Tech
by Charles Ornstein This story was co-published with the Washington Post. Jacqueline Stokes spotted the home paternity test at her local drugstore in Florida and knew she had to try it. She had no...
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Trail of Paris Attackers Winds to Terrorism’s Longtime Outpost
by Sebastian Rotella Update, Nov. 19, 2015: Paris prosecutors confirmed today that Abaaoud had been "formally identified" as one of the dead at the scene of the police raid and gun battle Wednesday in...
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What’s the Evidence Mass Surveillance Works? Not Much
by Lauren Kirchner Current and former government officials have been pointing to the terror attacks in Paris as justification for mass surveillance programs. CIA Director John Brennan accused privacy...
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Brand-Name Drugs Increase Cost But Not Patient Satisfaction
by Charles Ornstein This story was co-published with NPR's Shots blog. In recent days, presidential candidates and even the American Medical Association have griped about rising drug prices, pointing...
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Alabama Considers a Step Back From Prosecuting Pregnant Drug Users
by Nina Martin A health task force appointed by Alabama’s Republican governor is weighing proposals that could dramatically reform the nation’s harshest law against drug use during pregnancy, with a...
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Who Turned My Blue State Red?
by Alec MacGillis This story was co-published with The New York Times' Sunday Review. It is one of the central political puzzles of our time: Parts of the country that depend on the safety-net...
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The View From Counterterror’s Front Lines
by Sebastian Rotella PARIS — Ten days after the Paris terror attacks, Europe remains on edge. Police in Belgium, anticipating a similar assault, are on highest alert as they press the hunt for the...
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When Surgeons Multitask: The Little-Known Practice of Concurrent Surgeries
by Cynthia Gordy .player_box { display: none; } div.article-inline-image.Right.demobbed {display: none;} When you go to the hospital for an operation, did you know your surgeon might also be...
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How the Gun Control Debate Ignores Black Lives
by Lois Beckett ProPublica Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate Deanne Fitzmaurice for ProPublica How the Gun Control Debate Ignores Black Lives By failing to talk about the majority of...
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The Painting That Saved My Family From the Holocaust
by Stephen Engelberg Seventy-seven years ago this week, my grandmother left her fourth-floor apartment in Munich carrying a painting by Otto Stein, a modestly popular German artist. Earlier that...
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State Lawmakers to Investigate Workers’ Comp Opt Out
by Michael Grabell A national association of state lawmakers has announced that it will investigate a burgeoning effort to let companies opt out of workers’ compensation insurance and write their own...
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Plot Thickens: Pentagon Now Facing More Scrutiny Over $766 Million Task Force
by Megan McCloskey The Pentagon is scrambling to justify its actions in restricting the government watchdog investigating a $766-million task force in Afghanistan — with more controversy seemingly...
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