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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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Renter Beware: Ten Ways Unscrupulous Landlords Cheat NYC Tenants
by Cezary Podkul and Lena Groeger Here are the top 10 ways unscrupulous landlords take advantage of tenants, and what you can do about it.
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The DIY Scientist, the Olympian, and the Mutated Gene
by David Epstein ProPublica Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate The DIY Scientist, the Olympian, and the Mutated Gene How a woman whose muscles disappeared discovered she shared a...
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Why ProPublica Joined the Dark Web
by Cynthia Gordy .player_box { display: none; } div.article-inline-image.Right.demobbed {display: none;} You may have heard about the so-called “dark web” as a place where drugs and guns are sold on...
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Afghanistan Waste Exhibit A: Kajaki Dam, More Than $300M Spent and Still Not...
by Megan McCloskey The five-day mission was dangerous and grueling. Thousands of troops hauled a 220-ton turbine piecemeal on trucks the entire length of a Taliban-infested province in southern...
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Nursing Assistant Fired, Charged After Posting Nude Video of 93-Year-Old on...
by Charles Ornstein Clarification, Jan. 19, 2016: This post has been clarified to explain how imprisonment in Wisconsin consists of both confinement behind bars as well as extended supervision. A...
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I Ramped Up My Internet Security, and You Should Too
by Julia Angwin Some people make dieting resolutions in the New Year. I make security and privacy resolutions, because those are the things that keep me up at night. After all, as a journalist, it’s...
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Lawmakers to Pentagon: Goats, Carpets and Jewelry Helped Afghanistan How?
by Megan McCloskey Is it true that rare Italian goats were airlifted to Afghanistan? Did Defense Department employees go to carpet tradeshows in Europe? How about on jewelry-related trips to India?...
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Campaign Donations Reflect the Sharp Split in Congress Among Republicans
by Derek Willis This story was co-published with The Daily Beast. The Republican split that defines this year’s presidential campaign has been on display in Congress for years, with the most...
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The Flint Water Crisis: MuckReads
by Adam Harris The outcry over the public health crisis in Flint, Michigan, has intensified in recent days, with President Obama promising $80 million in water infrastructure money and the head of the...
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