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Entire Industries Are Being Blacklisted by Insurers Over #MeToo Liability
Companies with high-profile executives, big-name stars, or iffy corporate cultures are getting increased scrutiny.
By Susan Antilla in the Intercept.
Following Exposé of Labor Violations, Centerplate Agrees to $5.45m Settlement
The lawsuit alleges that Centerplate broke a long list of state labor laws. By Gabriel Thompson for Type Investigations.
Chemours is Using the U.S. as an Unregulated Dump for Europe’s Toxic GenX Waste
After many years of treating the developing world as its environmental dumping ground, the U.S. is finally getting a taste of what it feels like to be on the receiving end of another country’s dangerous garbage. By Sharon Lerner in the Intercept.
How Afghans Have Adapted to Life After Losing a Limb
“What is most difficult for us to imagine is not tragedy but the prospect of living in its aftermath.” By Matthieu Aikins in the New York Times Magazine, with photographs by Ross McDonnell.
Broken Justice in the 42
In the poorest congressional district in the country, where thousands of people are arrested each year, one former cop with a complicated past has made high-profile prosecutions fall apart.
By Saki Knafo in The New York Times Magazine.
Are St. Louis police following their own rules to protect citizens’ privacy?
The first piece from Type Investigations’ Ida B. Wells Fellowship, class of 2018.
By Rebecca Rivas in
Expecting Care
How Texas is failing foster kids and contributing to an alarming teen pregnancy rate.
By Rebecca Grant in Texas Observer.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Doesn’t Have Time to ‘Learn the Job.’ Neither Did Shirley Chisholm.
Ocasio-Cortez, like Chisholm before her, is driven by an urgency not typically found in American politicians.
By Mychal Denzel Smith in Esquire.
Seth Freed Wessler and Type Investigations win 2019 John Jay College/Harry Frank Guggenheim Excellence in Criminal Justice Reporting Award
Congratulations to Seth Freed Wessler and Type Investigations, who won for “The Coast Guard’s ‘Floating Guantánamos.’”
Introducing Type Investigations
Great video capturing what Type Investigations is all about.
What Does Socialism Have to Do with Sex?
The New Yorker discovers Kristen R. Ghodsee‘s “smart, accessible book” Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism.
Shout Out to Criminal Justice Reformers
As the Justice in America Podcast returns for a second season, our fellow Josie Duffy Rice and Clint Smith III talk to Colorlines about the activists and organizations fighting to remake the nation’s criminal justice system.
By Josie Duffy Rice in Colorlines.
‘This Model of Education Is Not Sustainable’
Yes, raises are important, but LA’s teachers are striking so their students have a fair shot at an education.
By Sarah Jaffe in The Nation.
The Law That Just Passed In New York Is A Huge Win For Voting Rights
The state had some of the worst voting laws in the country. It’s about to have some of the best.
By Ari Berman in Mother Jones.
The American Dream Isn’t for Black Millennials
What I learned from talking to more than 70 of my peers — and trying to buy a house.
By Reniqua Allen in the New York Times
“I’m Doing Great”: A Black Millennial On His $100,000 Student Debt
Michael is trying to free himself from nearly $100,000 in student debt the only way he knows how: getting another degree.
By Reniqua Allen in BuzzFeed
After Words on C-SPAN
Is the “American Dream” is still attainable?
Reniqua Allen on Book TV’s After Words.
Could socialist policies give American women better lives?
PBS NewsHour invited Kristen Ghodsee, author of “Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism,” to discuss socialist concepts would make women’s lives more autonomous, manageable and fulfilling.
Juan Cole’s Muhammad is a New York Times Review editor’s choice
“Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires is not just eruditely informative, but also ambitiously revisionist.”
Stepping Up
As the incarceration of mothers increases in the United States, who cares for the children left behind?
By Sylvia A. Harvey, in Virginia Quarterly Review
Our 2018 Gala
We were humbled to honor co-founders of March For Our Lives with the 2018 Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship. Thanks to Wyatt Cenac for a moving tribute to the courageous work of Delaney Tarr, Jaclyn Corin, and Avalon Fenster, and so many others.
The Costs of the Confederacy
Taxpayers have spent at least $40 million on Confederate monuments and groups that perpetuate racist ideology — in the last decade alone.
By Brian Palmer and Seth Freed Wessler in Smithsonian Magazine
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