How the sugar industry makes political friends and influences elections ~food Article 3340 words 2 votes
Kidney failure, emergency rooms and medical debt: The unseen costs of food poisoning ~health healthcare Article 2581 words 3 votes
China unleashed its propaganda machine on Peng Shuai’s #MeToo accusation. Her story still got out. ~tech internet Article 1827 words 19 votes
Black children were jailed for a crime that doesn’t exist. Almost nothing happened to the adults in charge. ~life Article 10 460 words 13 votes
Shared parenting is usually better for children — but the model fails for many women forced to co-parent with their abusers ~life parenting Article 5244 words 11 votes
Black Snow: To harvest America’s cane sugar, billion-dollar companies set fire to fields, a money-saving practice that’s being banned by other countries ~enviro pollution.air Article 6981 words 12 votes
The secret IRS files: Trove of never-before-seen records reveal how the wealthiest avoid income tax ~finance economics Article 5786 words 19 votes
The broken front line: What lasting impact will the pandemic have on America's first responders? ~health healthcare Article 5971 words 7 votes
The climate crisis is worse than you can imagine. Here’s what happens if you try. ~enviro climate change Article 27 votes
New Jersey police union contracts fund six-figure “sick day” payouts, $2,500 “perfect attendance” bonuses and lucrative “extra duty” assignments ~life work Article 4285 words 5 votes
All a gig-economy pioneer had to do was “politely disagree” it was violating Federal law and the Labor Department walked away ~finance business Article 2019 words 8 votes
What Parler saw during the attack on the Capitol: Curated videos, arranged on a timeline ~news usa.dc politics Article 158 words 23 votes
Hawaii is famous for its spectacular beaches. But over the past century, three of the state’s major islands have lost roughly one-quarter of their sandy shores. ~enviro climate change Article 12 votes
Inside Donald Trump and Bill Barr's last-minute killing spree: The outgoing administration is using its final days to execute the most federal prisoners since World War II ~misc politics Article 4043 words 12 votes
Tethered to the machine: For years, Jamarcus Crews tried to get a new kidney, but corporate healthcare stood in the way ~health healthcare Article 7754 words, published Dec 15 2020 7 votes
As Covid-19 ravaged Waterloo, Iowa, officials discovered meatpacking executives were the ones in charge ~health Article 9116 words 12 votes
Rapid antigen testing is less accurate than the US government wants to admit ~health healthcare Article 2801 words 5 votes
Arizona is known as the best state in the US for people with developmental challenges. But its Division of Developmental Disabilities has turned down thousands of people because of paperwork issues. ~life Article 5566 words 7 votes
Inside the fall of the CDC: How the world’s greatest public health organization was brought to its knees, causing damage that could last much longer than the coronavirus ~health Article 11 058 words 13 votes
New maps show how climate change is making California's "fire weather" worse ~enviro climate change Article 1050 words 4 votes
Meet the customer service reps for Disney and Airbnb who have to pay to talk to you ~tech Article 6824 words 29 votes
Climate change will force a new American migration - Life is becoming increasingly untenable in the hardest-hit areas, which could cause millions of people to relocate ~enviro climate change Article 6048 words 20 votes
For election administrators in the US, death threats have become part of the job ~misc politics Article 1881 words 10 votes
University of North Carolina researchers were potentially exposed to lab-created coronaviruses in several incidents since 2015, highlighting the risks even in respected research facilities ~health Article 2674 words 8 votes
US hospitals are suddenly short of young doctors — because of Donald Trump’s visa ban ~health healthcare Article 2078 words 9 votes
You can make millions selling masks to the government in three easy steps ~health Article 1873 words 10 votes
"All the hospitals are full": In Houston, overwhelmed ICUs leave COVID-19 patients waiting in emergency rooms ~health healthcare Article 1864 words 18 votes
Internal messages reveal crisis at Houston hospitals as coronavirus cases surge ~health healthcare Article 2155 words 7 votes
The true cost of dollar stores - discount chains are thriving, but fostering violence and neglect in poor communities ~life Article 6374 words 7 votes
Marion Correctional Institution in Ohio was built to hold 1,500 inmates. It had over 2,000 coronavirus cases ~health Article 3394 words 6 votes
The Trump administration paid millions for test tubes — and got unusable mini soda bottles ~health Article 2039 words 9 votes
Wall Street investment funds took control of Oregon’s private forests. Now, wealthy timber corporations reap the benefits of tax cuts that have cost rural counties billions ~enviro Article 4450 words 9 votes
How Germany saved its workforce from unemployment while spending less per person than the US ~finance economics Article 2924 words 12 votes
The Black American amputation epidemic ~health healthcare Article 7462 words, published May 19 2020 7 votes
How New York suffered nearly ten times the number of deaths as California ~health Article 11 354 words 6 votes
“Immune to evidence”: How dangerous coronavirus conspiracies spread ~health Article 1305 words 7 votes
Both Senator Richard Burr and his brother-in-law may have traded stocks on insider information related to the coronavirus ~finance Article 1089 words 9 votes
A nurse bought protective supplies for her colleagues using GoFundMe. The hospital suspended her. ~health healthcare Article 1993 words 8 votes
What we need to understand about asymptomatic carriers if we’re going to beat the coronavirus ~health Article 3397 words 4 votes
A major medical staffing company just slashed benefits for doctors and nurses fighting coronavirus ~health healthcare Article 1057 words 9 votes
United States taxpayers paid millions to design a low-cost ventilator for a pandemic. Instead, the company is selling versions of it overseas ~health Article 3365 words 16 votes
A medical worker describes terrifying lung failure from COVID-19 — even in his young patients ~health healthcare Article 2132 words 12 votes
Senator Richard Burr dumped up to $1.6 million of stock after reassuring public about coronavirus preparedness ~finance Article 1099 words 27 votes