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December 28, 2016

The Enemy Within: Bribes Bore a Hole in the U.S. Border

A New York Times investigation found that employees at the Department of Homeland Security, which is charged with securing the border and enforcing immigration laws, have taken $15 million in bribes from drug cartels and others since 2006.

Article by ronnixon / Uncategorized

November 15, 2016

Teachers Unions Spend Big On 2016 Election But Come Up Short

Teacher unions spent millions during the 2016 presidential and congress elections in support of Democrats but came up short.

Article by ronnixon / Uncategorized

July 7, 2016

Busted

Widespread evidence shows that these tests routinely produce false positives. Why are police departments and prosecutors across the country still using them?

Article by jes5970 / Uncategorized

June 4, 2014

The Case for Reparations

Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.

Article by Ta-Nehisi Paul Coates / Uncategorized

April 16, 2014

Segregation Now

In Tuscaloosa today, nearly one in three black students attends a school that looks as if Brown v. Board of Education never happened. Though James Dent could watch Central High School’s homecoming parade from the porch of his faded white bungalow, it had been years since he’d bothered. But last fall, Dent’s oldest granddaughter, D’Leisha,…

Article by Nikole Hannah-Jones / Uncategorized

July 3, 2013

U.S. Postal Service Logging All Mail for Law Enforcement

Leslie James Pickering noticed something odd in his mail last September: a handwritten card, apparently delivered by mistake, with instructions for postal workers to pay special attention to the letters and packages sent to his home. “Show all mail to supv” — supervisor — “for copying prior to going out on the street,” read the…

Article by ronnixon / Uncategorized

May 20, 2013

Privacy on the Line

Article by Lawan Hamilton / Uncategorized

April 7, 2011

Lax oversight of school construction raises doubts about earthquake safety

State regulators have routinely failed to enforce California’s landmark earthquake safety law for public schools, allowing children and teachers to occupy buildings with structural flaws and potential safety hazards reported during construction. Top management with the Division of the State Architect – the chief regulator of school construction – for years did nothing about nearly…

Article by coreyjohnson / Uncategorized

July 31, 2006

The Race Beat

This is the story of how America awakened to its race problem, of how a nation that longed for unity after World War II came instead to see, hear, and learn about the shocking indignities and injustices of racial segregation in the South—and the brutality used to enforce it.

Article by Hank Klibanoff / Uncategorized

July 31, 1999

Strip-Searched at O’Hare

Reporter Renee Ferguson coolly and convincingly uncovers racial discrimination by immigration agents at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. Black women were disproportionately targeted for strip-searches by customs agents, who suspected them of carrying drugs. Customs guidelines were surprisingly vague and contradictory, yet immigration agents inspected black women twice as often as white women and subjected them…

Article by jes5970 / Uncategorized

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