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Billionaire Tax Breaks, A Military Rape Trial 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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3 Things Mayor de Blasio and AG Schneiderman Didn’t Say About Housing...
by Marcelo Rochabrun On Thursday, Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman proudly announced they plan to steer $5 million collected from a “crackdown” on landlords who...
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Inside the Immigration Abuses of America’s Little-Known Guest Worker System
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5 Things You Should Know About the FCC’s Proposed Privacy Rules
by Julia Angwin Last week, the Federal Communications Commission proposed new privacy rules for Internet providers. The proposal was immediately praised by privacy advocates as “a major step forward”...
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About Face: U.S. Military Seeks Historic Overhaul of Justice System
by T. Christian Miller WASHINGTON—After years of concern over sexual assault in the military, the Defense Department has proposed the most far-reaching reforms to its justice system in decades. The...
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Another Senator Calls for Action on Social Media Abuse of Nursing Home Residents
by Charles Ornstein The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee is asking the U.S. Justice Department for information about how aggressively it pursues elder abuse in nursing homes, particularly...
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The Most Terrific Reporting on Trump
by Sarah Smith If elected president, Donald Trump has promised to “open up” libel laws so he can sue news organizations like they’ve “never got sued before.” While the First Amendment is still intact,...
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ProPublica Adds Teaching Hospitals to Dollars for Docs
by Charles Ornstein Related story: Now There’s Proof: Docs Who Get Company Cash Tend to Prescribe More Brand-Name Meds The largesse of the pharmaceutical and medical device industry extends well...
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Now There’s Proof: Docs Who Get Company Cash Tend to Prescribe More...
by Charles Ornstein, Ryann Grochowski Jones and Mike Tigas, ProPublica, This story was co-published with NPR, the Boston Globe and the Tampa Bay Times. Doctors have long disputed that the payments...
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How a For-Profit College Targeted the Homeless and Kids With Low Self-Esteem
by Annie Waldman Perhaps you remember Corinthian Colleges. It was the country’s second largest chain of for-profit colleges, before it collapsed into bankruptcy last year amid evidence of phony...
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Dollars for Docs, Lead in the Water, and More in MuckReads Weekly
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Vietnam Vets’ Fight for Benefits Gets New Crowdsourcing Boost
by Cynthia Gordy .player_box { display: none; } div.article-inline-image.Right.demobbed {display: none;} It’s been four decades since the end of the Vietnam War, but the conflict has gotten renewed...
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Yet Another Scandal Rocks Utah Home for Vulnerable Children
by Joaquin Sapien In 2014, an employee at a group home for troubled children in Utah said they informed superiors that a staff member was having sex with one of the boys the home was charged with...
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What’s at Stake in the Latest Supreme Court Showdown Over Contraception and...
by Sarah Smith and Nina Martin This story was co-published with Mother Jones. Three weeks after oral arguments in what could be the most important abortion rights case in a generation, the U.S....
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Belgium’s Deadly Circles of Terror
by Sebastian Rotella This story was co-produced with Frontline. Over the past several months, Belgian counterterror officials told me they were working nonstop to prevent an attack and that the danger...
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Department of Education Report Calls on Colleges to Step Up Support for Poor...
by Annie Waldman Colleges should be doing more to recruit low-income students and to support them as they work to finish their degrees, says a new report released today by the U.S. Department of...
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Wisconsin’s Voter ID Law Requires an Education Campaign, Which the State...
by Sarah Smith On April 5, when voters cast ballots in Wisconsin’s Republican and Democratic primaries, the state’s controversial voter ID bill will face its biggest test since Governor Scott Walker...
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The Best Reporting on Europe’s Terrorism Threat
by Adam Harris This week, terrorists bombed multiple locations in Brussels, claiming at least 31 lives and making Belgium the latest flashpoint in a wave of attacks across Europe. We've compiled some...
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Cellmates in Solitary, a Secret Gang Database and More in MuckReads Weekly
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Insiders Say NYPD’s Nuisance Unit Skirts the Law and Relies on Unconfirmed...
by Sarah Ryley for ProPublica and the New York Daily News, This story was co-published with the New York Daily News. Amid outrage over a law that empowers the NYPD to remove people from their homes...
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