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Whack-a-Mole: How Payday Lenders Bounce Back When States Crack Down
by Paul KielA version of this story was co-published with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.In 2008, payday lenders suffered a major defeat when the Ohio legislature banned high-cost loans. That same year,...
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How One State Succeeded in Restricting Payday Loans
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The Surveillance Reforms Obama Supported Before He Was President
by Kara BrandeiskyWhen the House of Representatives recently considered an amendment that would have dismantled the NSA’s bulk phone records collection program, the White House swiftly condemned the...
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SEC Reportedly Passes on Charging Magnetar
by Jake Bernstein The Securities and Exchange Commission appears to be concluding its investigation of Magnetar, a hedge fund that played a pivotal role in the disastrous mortgage bond market that...
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New Study Finds High Levels of Arsenic in Groundwater Near Fracking Sites
by Theodoric MeyerA recently published study by researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington found elevated levels of arsenic and other heavy metals in groundwater near natural gas fracking...
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How Unpaid Interns Aren’t Protected Against Sexual Harassment
by Blair Hickman and Christie ThompsonIn 1994, Bridget O’Connor began an internship at Rockland Psychiatric Center, where one of the doctors allegedly began to refer to her as Miss Sexual Harassment,...
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Does the U.S. Pay Families When Drones Kill Innocent Yemenis?
by Cora CurrierThere have been nine drone strikesreported in Yemen in the past two weeks – an uptick apparently connected to the Al Qaeda threat that shut down U.S. embassies across the Middle East...
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Unfair Share: How Oil and Gas Drillers Avoid Paying Royalties
by Abrahm Lustgarten Don Feusner ran dairy cattle on his 370-acre slice of northern Pennsylvania until he could no longer turn a profit by farming. Then, at age 60, he sold all but a few Angus and...
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Meet Our Kickstarter Intern!
by Blair HickmanWe’re very pleased to announce that we have selected an intern to help us investigate the intern economy. Meet Casey McDermott! Casey is a recent graduate of Penn State University,...
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Podcast: What You Need to Know About Assisted Living
by Mike Webb Earlier this month, ProPublica reporter A.C. Thompson and Jonathan Jones – in partnership with PBS Frontline - published a revealing expose on the assisted living industry and the largest...
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The Sweeping Presidential Power to Help Prisoners That Holder Didn’t Mention
by Cora CurrierThis week, Attorney General Eric Holder spoke out against the impacts of “draconian” sentences for nonviolent drug offenders. “Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too...
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New York Promised Help for Mentally Ill Inmates – But Still Sticks Many in...
by Christie Thompson This story was co-produced with WNYC. When Amir Hall entered New York state prison for a parole violation in November 2009, he came with a long list of psychological problems....
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Sandberg’s Lean In Called For an Unpaid Intern – And That’s Apparently Legal
by Blair HickmanAug. 16: This post has been corrected and updated.A top editor at Lean In, the nonprofit offshoot of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s book about empowering women to achieve their goals,...
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A Powerful Legal Tool, and Its Potential for Abuse
by Joaquin SapienAug. 16: This story has been updated. The 20-year-old document – labeled the Hotel Custody log by the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office – is not easy to decipher. It contains a list...
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The Best Reporting on Mental Illness in Prisons
by Christie ThompsonLast week, we published an investigation into the New York prison system, and how, despite protections, inmates with severe mental illness are still ending up in solitary...
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What NSA Transparency Looks Like
by Justin ElliottLast week, the Washington Post published an internal audit finding the NSA had violated privacy rules thousands of times in recent years.In response, the spy agency held a rare...
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F.A.Q. on U.S. Aid to Egypt: Where Does the Money Go, And How Is It Spent?
by Marian Wang and Theodoric MeyerThis article has been updated to reflect new developments. It was first published on Jan. 31, 2011.Questions about the United States’ aid to Egypt have intensified in...
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Overdozed on A-Rod? Here are Other Great Reads on Doping
We know, we know. Enough already. But as baroquely banal as Alex Rodriguez’s saga with performance enhancing drugs has become, the subject of sports and drugs is a serious and, it seems, eternal...
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The Best Reporting on Hurricanes and Their Aftermaths
by Theodoric MeyerMid-August marks the start of peak hurricane season, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has warned that this year’s is likely to be worse than usual, with a...
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Workers Win $2 Million Settlement From Assisted Living Giant
by Joe Sexton Emeritus Senior Living, the country’s largest assisted living company, has agreed to pay up to $2.2 million to settle claims that it routinely underpaid workers at dozens of its...
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