Week of May 8, 2017 Archives
RCI -
Other Investigations
Monday, May 8
More Than 100 Veterans Died Waiting for Care at Los Angeles VA
Free Beacon
U.S. Life Spans Climb, but People in Some Places Die Younger
FiveThirtyEight
Scammers Target Ex-NFL Players Linked to Concussion Suit
New York Post
Tuesday, May 9
Real Madrid Star and Hushed-Up Rape Case
Der Spiegel
The Era of Cheap Suburban Growth Is Over
Richard Florida, City Lab
Why the American Prairie Is a Threatened Ecosystem
David. J. Unger, Undark
Why Fed Workers Out-Earn Private Sector: Benefits
Leahy
,
RealClearInvestigations
The Long, Hard, Unprecedented Fall of Sears
Kim Bhasin and Lance Lambert
,
Bloomberg
You Have a Right to an Attorney After Spending Months in Jail
Ciaramella
,
Reason
A Stealth Conservative Plan to Win Influence on Campuses
Chronicle of Higher Ed
Why Do Gas Station Prices Constantly Change? Blame the Algorithm
WS Journal
Why Car Mechanics Are Scarce and Your Repair Bills Are High
New York Times
Low-Income Housing Program Costs More, Shelters Fewer
NPR, Frontline
Wednesday, May 10
How ShotSpotter Locates Gunfire, Helps Police Catch Shooters
Washington Post
The Political Isolation of Jim Comey
Garrett M. Graff
,
Politico Magazine
Why IRS Puts White-Nationalist Groups in Same Class as Zoos
Washington Post
Russian Domestic Hacking Hoists Kremlin on Its Own Petard
Wall Street Journal
Raising the Gas Tax Is No Longer Taboo In Many States
Vock
,
Governing.com
Thursday, May 11
The Doomsday Glacier
Jeff Goodell
,
Rolling Stone
A Decade Later, a Patient Finds Out Her Genetic Test Was Wrong
The Atlantic
U.S. Officials Warned Colleagues Charity Was a Cult, to No Avail
Reveal
Associated Press Made Secret Deal with Nazis on Photos
Washington Post
With President Trump After Hours
Michael Scherer & Zeke J. Miller,
Time
Criminals Peg Global Digital Extortion to McDonald's Prices
Observer
Is Famine Really an Issue on College Campuses?
Peter A. Coclanis
,
City Journal
How Homeownership Became the Engine of American Inequality
NYT Magazine
A Third of FDA-Approved Drugs Go On to Have Major Safety Issues
Ars Technica
Friday, May 12
Pentagon Financial Office Not Complying with Improper Payments Law
GovExec
Bob Dole, Trump Campaign Aide to Lobby for Congolese Government
Levine
,
CPI
Christians, in an Epochal Shift, Are Leaving the Middle East
Wall Street Journal
Quiet Wave of 'Have' School Districts Forming Apart From 'Have-Nots'
U.S. News
Why U.S. Has Worst Maternal Death Rate in Developed World
ProPublica/NPR