RCI -
Other Investigations
Thursday, August 16
Shopify Deletes Free Speech Pledge, Purges Gun Retailers
Stephen Gutowski
,
WFB
SEC Subpoenas Tesla Over Musk Tweets
Emily Glazer
,
Wall Street Journal
Traces of Controversial Herbicide in Cheerios, Quaker Oats
Mihir Zaveri
,
NY Times
'Abolish Prisons' Is the Left's New 'Abolish ICE'
Ruari Arrieta-Kenna
,
Politico Magazine
Wednesday, August 15
Bribes, Backdoor Deals, Pay to Play -- and Bad Rosé
Victoria James
,
Bon Appétit
Bleak New Estimate of Overdose Deaths: 72,000 in 2017
Margot Sanger-Katz
, NYT
Tuesday, August 14
Taxpayers Get the Bill as Medicare's Drug Premiums Stay Low
Austin Frakt
,
NYT
Uber Drivers Take Riders the Long Way—at Uber’s Expense
Greg Bensinger
,
WSJ
Meet the U.S. Farm Subsidy $1 Million Club
Adam Andrzejewski
,
Forbes
Iranians Posing as Anti-Immigrant Americans Online
Peter Hasson
,
Daily Caller
The Activists Who Took on Silicon Valley — and Won
Nicholas Confessore
,
NYT Mag
What a Grieving Orca Whale Tells Us
Ed Yong
,
Atlantic
1,400 Years Ago, Warrior Had Knife for an Arm
Joe Pappalardo
,
Popular Mechanics
Monday, August 13
Actually, Hacking the Electric Grid Is Hard
Maggie Koerth-Baker
,
FiveThirtyEight
Meet Virgin Galactic's Spaceship Test Pilot
Nicolas Schmidle
,
New Yorker
How Cities Trick You Into Better Behaviour
Nikhil Hemrajani
,
BBC
Companies Needing Skilled Workers Look to High Schools
Michelle Hackman
, WSJ
Will Found Marilyn Nude Scene Mean Posthumous Sexploitation?
Yohana Desta
,
VF
Banks, Retailers Tracking How You Type, Swipe, Tap
Stacy Cowley
,
New York Times
Sunday, August 12
Google Tracks Your Movements, Like It or Not
Ryan Nakashima
,
Associated Press
How the #VanLife Movement Is Influencing Car Design
Jesus Diaz
,
Fast Company
Time to End the Tyranny of Open-Concept Design
Kate Wagner
,
City Lab
Vegas FBI Sting, Fitness Models, Diet Clinics, and Hitman
Trevor Aaronson
,
Intercept
Food Gene-Editing: Fast, Cheap, Out of Control?
Caitlin Dewey
,
Washington Post
In Opioid Era, Hard to Tell Murderers From Victims
John Keilman
,
Chicago Tribune
The Scam of 'Free' Tablets for the Incarcerated
Michael Waters
,
Outline
Denaturalizing U.S. Citizens Is on the Rise
Brittany Mejia,
Los Angeles Times
Saturday, August 11
The Flourishing Business of Fake YouTube Views
Michael H. Keller,
New York Times
Friday, August 10
Post-Millennial Gen Z Poised to Kill Malls, Football
Riley Griffin
,
Bloomberg
Opioid Addiction Among Pregnant Women Has Quadrupled
Julia Lurie
,
Mother Jones
Inside the Controversial Business of Dog Cloning
David Ewing Duncan
,
Vanity Fair
The 'Steely-Eyed Killer' Fox News Star Now Hiding from the Law
Keith Kloor
,
Politico
Murdered as Transgender, but ID'd as Men
Lucas Waldron
,
Ken Schwencke
,
ProPublica
Tech Giants Punish Activists for Posting 3D Gun Files
Stephen Gutowski
, Free Beacon
That 'McScam' Article Behind H'wood Bidding War? It Was a Plant
Chris Lee
,
Vulture
Thursday, August 9
The Super-Secret Sand That Makes Your Phone Possible
Vince Beiser
,
Wired
How to Guard Our Electrical Grid
Manimaran Govindarasu
&
Adam Hahn
,
The Conversation
SEC Probe Over Musk Tweet
Michael Rapoport
&
Dave Michaels
,
Wall Street Journal
Everyone Pours Bacon Fat Down the Drain, Everyone Lies About It
Lara Kane
,
WSJ
Asbestos, Lead Found in Popular School Supplies
Ursula Perano
&
Amanda Watts
,
CNN
DIY Diabetics Hack Themselves a Pancreas
Naomi Kresge
&
Michelle Cortez
,
Bloomberg
Colleagues Accuse Top Empathy Researcher of Bullying
Kai Kupferschmidt, Science
The Nasty Feud Over What Killed the Dinosaurs
Bianca Bosker
,
Atlantic
Wednesday, August 8
Why U.S. Wildfires Have Gotten So Much Worse
Michael Bastasch
,
Daily Caller
The Conspiracy to Humiliate Baseball Umpire Steve Fields
Dave McKenna
,
Deadspin
Why Solar Will Leave World's Poor Short on Electricity
Bjorn Lomborg
,
Proj. Syndicate
FDA Buys 'Fresh' Fetal Tissue to Create Humanized Mice
Terrence P. Jeffrey
,
CNS
600,000-Plus Foreigners Overstayed U.S. Visas in 2017
Alan Gomez
,
USA Today
Tuesday, August 7
The Disgusting Origins of the Color Purple
Kelly Grovier
,
BBC
How We Got the Summer of Plastic-Straw Bans
Bob Tita
&
Corrine Ramey
,
WSJ
Facebook to Banks: Give Us Your Data, We'll Give You Our Users
Glazer
et al.,
WSJ
As Crashes Persist, Copter Industry Slow to Upgrade Fuel Tanks
Andy Pasztor
,
WSJ
Farrakhan's Anti-Semitism Doesn't Violate Facebook 'Hate' Rules
Peter Hasson
,
DC
Monday, August 6
'Gundamentalists' Pressure NRA From Within
Daniel Trotta
,
Reuters
Cardiac Survival Rate Rises for Women Treated by Female Docs
Ed Yong
,
Atlantic
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