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Why Pharma Payments to Doctors Were So Hard to Parse
by Charles Ornstein , Mike Tigas and Ryann Grochowski JonesThis story was co-published with the New York Times' The Upshot.You'd think drug and medical device makers would know how to spell the names...
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Obama Wants You to Have Cheap, Fast Internet, But Many Cities Aren’t Allowed...
by Leticia MirandaOn Tuesday evening during the State of the Union address, President Obama pledged "to protect a free and open Internet, extend its reach to every classroom, and every community, and...
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Using Your Tax Dollars to Fund This Cow’s Abnormal Triplets, Plus More From...
by Terry Parris JrCows normally have one calf, not twins or triplets. Pigs generally have eight piglets, not 14. "Easy care" sheep sounds more like a product than a herd left to die in the elements....
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Podcast: Why Tracking Is Scarier With Zombie Cookies
by Sara Afzal .player_box { display: none; }What are ‘zombie cookies’? Sadly, not innocent baked goods shaped like Halloween creatures, but a kind of tracking cookie that lives on your computer and...
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Pentagon Finally Identifies the Remains of a POW Lost Since 1942
by Megan McCloskey Missing overseas for 73 years, an American POW who perished in World War II is finally going home.Last week, the Pentagon officially identified the remains of Pvt. Arthur "Bud"...
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A Sheldon Silver Mystery: Did He Betray New York Renters?
by Justin ElliottWhen New York enacted a major rent regulation law in 2011, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver celebrated the passage of the legislation as a victory over real estate interests."Despite...
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U.S. Acknowledges Conviction of David Hicks, Guantanamo Detainee, Should Not...
by Raymond Bonner, Special to ProPublica, SYDNEY – The United States has acknowledged that the conviction of an Australian man held for nearly six years in Guantanamo Bay was not legally valid.The...
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True or False, the Power of Confessions is Great
by Joe SextonOver the next several months, defense lawyers for Pedro Hernandez will seek to undercut the central evidence against him: his videotaped confession to having killed 6-year-old Etan...
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What’s Really Happening with China’s Great Firewall
by Sisi WeiThree popular services that allow users in China to view otherwise-censored content have experienced outages over the past few days, a sign of increasing government efforts to limit what...
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Verizon Will Now Let Users Kill Previously Indestructible Tracking Code
by Julia AngwinVerizon says it will soon offer customers a way to opt out from having their smartphone and tablet browsing tracked via a hidden un-killable tracking identifier.The decision came after...
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We Are Treating Heroin Addiction Wrong Even Though We Know Better (MuckReads...
by Terry Parris JrWhy heroin addiction treatment is stuck in a "scientific dark age." Standard treatment for heroin addicts is not all that different today than it was decades ago: willpower over...
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Podcast: The Pentagon’s Failure to Find Long Lost Soldiers
by Sara Afzal .player_box { display: none; }Losing a loved one to war is hard enough but when thousands of U.S. soldiers missing overseas from combat in Vietnam, Korea and World War II have yet to...
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Uber Claims Credit for Drop in Drunk Driving Accidents. But Where’s the...
by Ryann Grochowski JonesLast week Uber revealed another way the ridesharing service is revolutionizing travel: Cities that use Uber see a reduction in drunk driving accidents among young people, a...
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Firestone and the Warlord
by T. Christian Miller and Jonathan Jones, closeSave Your SpotEnter your email address and we’ll send you a bookmark to your current spot. It remembers what page you’re on and how far you’ve scrolled,...
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Lethal Rejection: Will the Supreme Court’s Lethal Injection Review Kill the...
by Annie WaldmanLast week, the Supreme Court put three executions in Oklahoma on hold as it reviews the constitutionality of the state's death penalty protocol.If the nation's top court strikes down...
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The World’s Email Encryption Software Relies on One Guy, Who is Going Broke
by Julia AngwinThe man who built the free email encryption software used by whistleblower Edward Snowden, as well as hundreds of thousands of journalists, dissidents and security-minded people around...
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Sen. Warren, Rep. Cummings Press Federal Reserve For Details of Leak...
by Jake BernsteinTwo congressional Democrats have asked the Federal Reserve Board for a briefing about its investigation into a leak of confidential Fed policy deliberations two years ago.Sen....
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Huge Prescriber of Risky Antipsychotic Drug to Plead Guilty to Taking Kickbacks
by Charles OrnsteinA former Chicago psychiatrist who was the nation's top prescriber of the most powerful and riskiest antipsychotic drug intends to plead guilty to a federal felony charge of taking...
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States Fail to Keep School Vaccination Data and More in MuckReads Weekly
by Amanda ZamoraHow prepared are U.S. schools for measles? Most states don't keep those records.A USA Today analysis found just 13 states met federal standards for collecting school-level immunization...
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Unapproved, but Used in Surgery
by Marshall Allen and Olga PierceThis story was co-published with the New York Times.Carla Muss-Jacobs didn't give much thought to the tools her surgeon would use to replace her knee. Like most...
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