December 18, 2017 Archives

Week of December 18, 2017 Archives

RCI - Other Investigations

Monday, December 18

Prosecutors Now Treating Opioid ODs as Homicides

Joseph Walker, Wall Street Journal

The Drug Decimating Russian Women

Anna Nemtsova, Daily Beast

Dorm-Room Minecraft Scam Brought Down the Internet

Garrett M. Graff, Wired

Explosives Poisoning America's Water and Soil

Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica

The Budding Director and His Dead Girlfriend

Scott Johnson, Hollywood Reporter

The Myth of the Playground Pusher

C.J. Ciaramella & Lauren Krisai, Reason

Tuesday, December 19

Marvel Comics Editor's Dubious Past as a Fake Asian Writer

Asher Elbein, Atlantic

100-Meter Champ Gatlin Faces New Doping Scandal

Newell et al., Telegraph

Death and Deliverance From 27,000 Feet

John Branch, New York Times

Wednesday, December 20

Most Awesome Codebreaker in World War II Was a Woman

Jason Fagone, Wired

The Most Expensive Weather Year Ever

Annie Lowrey, Atlantic

Universities Strive for 'Christmas'-Free Campuses

Anthony Gockowski, Campus Reform

Why Americans Have More Pain Than Others Elsewhere

Olga Khazan, Atlantic

Firms Using Facebook Ads to Exclude Older Workers

Angwin et al., ProPublica, NYT

Thursday, December 21

The Big Business of Prisoner Care Packages

Taylor Elizabeth Eldridge, Marshall Project

Friday, December 22

100 Families Own Land Almost the Size of New England

Christopher Ingraham, WaPo

Facebook Team Enables Regimes' Propaganda

Etter et al., Bloomberg Technology

High-Drama World of Youth Competition Dance

Lizzie Feidelson, New York Times Mag

Apple Hid Practice of Stifling Older iPhones

Jason Koebler, Motherboard

A Cute Toy Just Brought a Hacker Into Your Home

Sheera Frenkel, New York Times

Skyrocketing Childbirth Complications

Katherine Ellison & Nina Martin, ProPublica

Saturday, December 23

West Point Let Grid Star Break Rules; He Died

James Laporta, Brandy Zadrozny, D. Beast

RealClearInvestigations' Picks of the Week

The Editors, RealClearInvestigations

FBI Saw Communist Devices in 'It's a Wonderful Life'

Kat Eschner, Smithsonian

Investigative Classics: Amazon's March of the Fulfillment Soldiers

The Editors, RCI

Doctors Practice on Cadavers at U.S. Hotels

Elizabeth Culliford, Reuters Investigates