A US Border Patrol agent reveals what it’s really like to guard migrant children ~life Article 2724 words, published Jul 16 2019 15 votes
US Border Patrol agents are passing around a commemorative coin mocking care for migrant kids ~news usa politics Article 1331 words 10 votes
In response to mass shootings, some schools and hospitals are installing microphones equipped with algorithms ~tech Article 1964 words 12 votes
An (even more) inconvenient truth: Why carbon credits for forest preservation may be worse than nothing ~enviro climate change Article 5587 words, published May 22 2019 7 votes
Separated by design: How some of America’s richest towns fight affordable housing ~design urban planning Article 5420 words, published May 22 2019 6 votes
Soon you may not even have to click on a website contract to be bound by its terms ~tech internet Article 1696 words 7 votes
The trade secret - Firms that promised high-tech ransomware solutions almost always just pay the hackers ~tech security.cyber Article 9166 words 9 votes
The birth-tissue profiteers - How well-meaning donations end up fueling an unproven, virtually unregulated $2 billion stem cell industry ~science biology medicine Article 6868 words, published May 7 2019 8 votes
Once defiant, all four white supremacists charged in Charlottesville violence plead guilty ~news usa.va.charlottesville Article 892 words 13 votes
Saudi fugitives accused of serious crimes get help to flee while US officials look the other way ~society politics Article 4758 words 4 votes
Many Americans are too broke for bankruptcy. A new report suggests some fixes. ~finance economics Article 619 words 6 votes
US Appeals Court rules key anti-age discrimination protections don’t apply to job seekers, only employees ~life work Article 1020 words 10 votes
Death and valor on a warship doomed by its own Navy - An investigation into the crash of the USS Fitzgerald ~humanities.history Article 6 votes
OxyContin maker explored expansion into “attractive” anti-addiction market ~health medicine Article 2460 words 7 votes
Facebook moves to block ad transparency tools- including ours ~tech facebook social media privacy Article 1337 words 8 votes
You snooze, you lose: Insurers make the old adage literally true – Propublica/NPR investigation into billing and privacy concerns for sleep apnea patients ~health Article 2764 words 12 votes
Unprotected: "An acclaimed American charity said it was saving some of the world’s most vulnerable girls from sexual exploitation. But from the very beginning, girls were being raped." ~life Article published Oct 11 2018 9 votes
The shadow rulers of the Veterans Affairs - How Marvel Entertainment chairman Ike Perlmutter and two other Mar-a-Lago members are secretly shaping the Trump administration’s veterans policies ~society politics Article 4009 words 5 votes
Health insurers are vacuuming up details about you — and it could raise your rates ~health healthcare Article 3267 words 10 votes
Listen to children who’ve just been separated from their parents at the border ~life family Article 1147 words 13 votes
Hell on wheels: Fatal accidents, off-the-books workers, a union once run by a mobster - The rogue world of one of New York’s major trash haulers ~life work Article 7742 words 3 votes