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NYC Lets Luxury Building Owners Stiff Workers and Still Get a Tax Break
by Cezary Podkul and Marcelo Rochabrun When Isaac Bowman got a concierge job at a luxury Queens apartment building last year, he hoped it would be his ticket out of a homeless shelter and into New...
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Farrah Fawcett Was Right — We Have Little Medical Privacy
by Charles Ornstein This story was co-published with the Washington Post. Seven years ago, I sat across from Farrah Fawcett in the living room of her Los Angeles condo. In what would be her last media...
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Why Small Debts Matter So Much To Black Lives
by Paul Kiel This story was co-published with The New York Times’ Sunday Review. If you are black, you’re far more likely to see your electricity cut, more likely to be sued over a debt, and more...
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The Consequences for Violating Patient Privacy in California? Depends Where...
by Charles Ornstein This story was co-published with The Sacramento Bee and KPCC. In 2008, outraged by a string of snooping incidents involving celebrities’ medical records, California legislators...
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How Denmark Dumped Medical Malpractice and Improved Patient Safety
by Olga Pierce and Marshall Allen COPENHAGEN — It was a distressingly close call. A patient had been sent home from the hospital with instructions to take a common medication at a dose that would have...
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The Best MuckReads of 2015
by Adam Harris h3 { font-size:1.2em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-top:1.4em; } blockquote { line-height: 1.5em; } We've rounded up some of the best reporting from other news organizations in 2015. What...
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Out of Options, California Ships Hundreds of Troubled Children Out of State
by Joaquin Sapien At 14, Deshaun Becton’s life is a roadmap to California’s faltering efforts to care for its most troubled children. Over more than a dozen turbulent years, he lived with a half-dozen...
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Reporting Lessons From the Front Lines
by Minhee Cho .player_box { display: none; } div.article-inline-image.Right.demobbed {display: none;} Investigative reporter Serge Kovaleski is known as the Mariano Rivera of the New York Times – its...
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The 2015 ProPublica Year in Visual Storytelling
by Scott Klein and David Sleight ProPublica Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate Early layout sketches for Killing the Colorado. (David Sleight/ProPublica) The 2015 ProPublica Year in...
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How Much Could Obama’s Gun Moves Affect Gun Violence? Nobody Knows.
by Lois Beckett The executive actions on guns unveiled yesterday by President Obama drew predictable praise from gun control advocates and bile from gun-rights supporters and Republican lawmakers,...
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NY State Data Indicates Even More Landlords Duck Rent Limits
by Cezary Podkul Since the 1990s, New York City has published, and public officials have quoted, an estimate that there are 1 million rent-stabilized apartments in the city, giving some 2 million...
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A Showdown Year for Reproductive Rights
by Nina Martin For advocates of women’s reproductive rights, 2015 was the definition of “annus horribilis:” marked by tough new limits on abortion, a debilitating Planned Parenthood scandal, and a...
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Racist Temp Hiring, a Guest Worker Empire and More in Muckreads Weekly
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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Meet the People Taking on New York City Landlords
by Cynthia Gordy .player_box { display: none; } div.article-inline-image.Right.demobbed {display: none;} High rent is a fact of New York City living. Residents lucky enough to live in one of the...
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100,000 NYC School Children Face Airport-Style Security Screening Every Day
by Cecilia Reyes, ProPublica, and Jenny Ye, WNYC, This story was co-published with WNYC. On the coldest morning New York City has seen this winter, a stream of teenage students hit a bottleneck at the...
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A Primer to President Obama’s Final State of the Union
by Adam Harris President Obama delivers his final State of the Union address this evening, and all signs point to a shift from tradition as he prepares a speech more suited to the campaign trail than...
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NY Lawmakers Want Stiffer Penalties for Landlords Who Ignore Rent Limits
by Cezary Podkul and Marcelo Rochabrun New York landlords who overcharge tenants in rent-stabilized apartments would face sharply higher financial penalties under new legislation unveiled in Albany....
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Scene from ‘Making a Murderer’ Echoes in Etan Patz Case
by Joe Sexton Update, Jan. 14, 2016: This story has been updated to include the formal response by the district attorney’s office. It is one of the most controversial moments from the Netflix...
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The U.S. Spent a Half Billion on Mining in Afghanistan With ‘Limited Progress’
by Megan McCloskey The United States has spent nearly half a billion dollars and five years developing Afghanistan’s oil, gas and minerals industries — and has little to show for it, a government...
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From Metal Detectors to a Mass Exodus: MuckReads Weekly
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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