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When a Brain Surgeon Becomes a Malpractice Lawyer
by Marshall Allen The line drive ripped off the hitter’s bat and rocketed into the right hand of Dr. Lawrence Schlachter, shattering bones and ending his career as a neurosurgeon. The Atlanta doctor,...
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Florida Lawmakers Look to Roll Back Favored Status For For-Profit Group Home
by Heather Vogell This story was co-published with the Tampa Bay Times. Florida legislators are looking to end what one lawmaker calls a “monopoly” written into state law that benefits a for-profit...
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My Story as a DMV Edge Case: How to Battle Bureaucracy and Win
by Hannah Birch “I don’t know what this is,” she said, sliding the form back to me. “I’m not a doctor.” Thank you, I thought. I realize that. You work at the Department of Motor Vehicles. I was at a...
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Why Is Mitch McConnell Picking This Fight?
by Alec MacGillis This story was co-published with The New York Times. In early 2009, as Barack Obama was about to take office, Mitch McConnell, the leader of the Republican minority in the Senate,...
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A Broken System of Background Checks 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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Turning the Housing Bubble into Movie Magic in “The Big Short”
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Brooklyn Prosecutors Admit Woman Spent 10 Years in Prison for Crime She...
by Joaquin Sapien Updated (Feb. 23, 2016): At a hearing in Brooklyn Supreme Court on Tuesday afternoon, Judge Matthew D’Emic endorsed District Attorney’s request to vacate the manslaughter conviction...
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NYC Housing Official Pans Rent Reforms As ‘Waste’
by Cezary Podkul New York City Council legislation requiring landlords to register their rent-regulated apartments with the city or face fines is a “waste of taxpayers’ resources.” That was the blunt...
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The TSA Releases Data on Air Marshal Misconduct, 7 Years After We Asked
by Michael Grabell Seven and a half years ago, as a new reporter here, I filed a Freedom of Information Act request for all reports of misconduct by federal air marshals. It had been several years...
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The Best MuckReads on America’s Troubled History With Race
by Adam Harris There have been several events throughout American history that have, for some, signaled the beginning of a post-racial society. The election of Barack Obama to the office of President...
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‘Bridge of Spies’: The True Story is Even Stranger Than Fiction
by Tim Weiner, special to ProPublica, Hollywood loves the smoke and mirrors of espionage. For decades, it has made a dirty, dangerous business look glamorous on silver screens. “Bridge of Spies,” the...
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What’s Really at Stake in the Apple Encryption Debate
by Julia Angwin The FBI’s much-discussed request to Apple can seem innocuous: Help us extract six weeks of encrypted data from the locked iPhone of Syed Farook, an employee of San Bernardino’s health...
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‘Spotlight’ Gets Investigative Journalism Right
by Stephen Engelberg There’s a moment in almost every movie when people in the audience who really know the line of work depicted on screen cry out in frustration and say: “Oh, come on!” “Absurd.”...
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Celebrating ‘Spotlight’: ProPublica Picks Our Favorite MuckRaking Films
by Amanda Zamora This weekend, the journalism world will be watching the Oscars with an unusual level of excitement and expectation. Forty years after Hollywood made journalism glamorous in All the...
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Listen to Our Collaboration with This American Life
This story was co-published with The Marshall Project. “An Anatomy of Doubt,” a collaboration between ProPublica, The Marshall Project and Chicago’s WBEZ’s “This American Life,” airs this weekend. In...
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Who’s Regulating For-Profit Schools? Execs From For-Profit Colleges
by Annie Waldman This story was co-published with The Chronicle of Higher Education. Updated (Feb. 26, 2016): ACICS has responded to our story with a letter to the editor. College accreditors have...
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Help ProPublica Research More Than 700 Navy Ships That Served in Vietnam
by Terry Parris Jr. Vietnam veteran Dale Worcester, who served aboard the gasoline tanker U.S.S. Tombigbee from 1966 to 1967, emailed ProPublica recently looking for a connection. He wrote: “Do you...
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The Most Important Abortion Case You Never Heard About
by Nina Martin This story was co-published with Mother Jones. Everyone considers Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that established a woman’s right to an abortion, to be the most important ruling ever on...
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One Professor’s Discovery About Speaking Truth to Power
by Cynthia Gordy .player_box { display: none; } div.article-inline-image.Right.demobbed {display: none;} In his new book, Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World, Adam Grant examines the...
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Corporate Campaign to Ditch Workers’ Comp Stalls
by Michael Grabell, ProPublica, and Howard Berkes, NPR, This story was co-published with NPR. A campaign by some of America’s biggest companies to “opt out” of state workers’ compensation — and write...
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