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Two Decades Later, Democrats Say Giuliani Was Wrong About Rent Limits
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Congressman to Red Cross: ‘How Do You Get Lost Going to a Disaster Area?’
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Most Drugs Aren’t Tested on Pregnant Women. This Anti-nausea Cure Shows Why...
by Nina Martin This story was co-published with Mother Jones and AL.com. Marquita Smiley’s first surprise was discovering she was pregnant. Her second was how miserable being pregnant felt. With her...
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Bank of America’s Winning Excuse: We Didn’t Mean To
by Jesse Eisinger This story was co-published with The New Yorker. It is not subject to our Creative Commons license. Back in the late-housing-bubble period, in 2007, Countrywide Home Loans, which was...
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‘On Like Donkey Kong’: How a Dubious Super PAC Boosted a Questionable Penny...
by Robert Faturechi and Derek Willis This story was co-published with The Daily Beast. A little more than a year ago, Hillary Clinton’s imminent entry into the race for the Democratic presidential...
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For Many of Connecticut’s Disabled, Home Is Where the Harm Is
by Joaquin Sapien The woman was sent to a Connecticut emergency room 19 times in 15 months. Her injuries were ghastly. She swallowed pieces of razor blades. She burned herself. She inserted pins,...
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SRSLY: Like ‘Minority Report,’ But Without Tom Cruise or Accuracy
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Stung by Yelp Reviews, Health Providers Spill Patient Secrets
by Charles Ornstein This story was co-published with The Washington Post. Burned by negative reviews, some health providers are casting their patients’ privacy aside and sharing intimate details...
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Algorithmic Injustice, a Visa Mill and More in MuckReads Weekly
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As One of Its Chief Sources of Water Dries Up, California Eases Restrictions...
by Abrahm Lustgarten Earlier this month, California lifted its sweeping restrictions on how its towns and cities use their water, signaling that even though much of the state continues to face...
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How We Decided to Test Racial Bias in Algorithms
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A Call to Reopen Investigation of Terror Campaign Against Journalists
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The Dig: Easy Recipes for Investigative Stories in Three-Dot Bursts
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Nonprofit Hospital Stops Suing So Many Poor Patients: Will Others Follow?
by Paul Kiel, ProPublica, and Chris Arnold, NPR, This story was co-published with NPR. For years, Heartland Regional Medical Center, a nonprofit hospital in the small city of St. Joseph, Missouri, had...
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A Gunfight in Guatemala
by Sebastian Rotella ProPublica Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate Loading… See the gunfight › ‹ Watch again Read the story Enrique Degenhart leaves his home in Guatemala City, driving...
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Alabama Mom’s Charges Are Dropped, But Only After an Arduous Battle
by Nina Martin Sixteen months after her arrest, Katie Darovitz — one of at least 500 women prosecuted under Alabama’s toughest-in-the-nation chemical endangerment law — has had her case dismissed....
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SRSLY: Whatever the Opposite of Art for Art’s Sake Is
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