US corporate giants have outsourced the dangerous work of building and maintaining mobile phone communications towers to tiny subcontracting companies. Over the last nine years, nearly 100 workers have died, 50 of them on cell sites. Yet cell phone carriers’ connection to tower climbing deaths has remained invisible. ProPublica (1) and PBS investigate how the money-spinning industry turns its back on the deadly working conditions of men earning $10 an hour.
The Associated Press reports that, in 2007, undercover New York Police Department officers investigated the Muslim community in the US city of Newark, New Jersey, producing a secret report profiling mosques, Islamic schools and Muslim-owned businesses and restaurants.
What was made can be unmade. JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo may have venerable names, but they and the pseudo-venerable Citigroup and Bank of America are all products of countless mergers and agglomerations. There is no rule of markets that requires a financial system dominated by four cobbled-together, lumbering behemoths, writes ProPublica's Jesse Eisingerin.
A number of key members of the family which controlled The Wall Street Journal say they would not have agreed to sell the prestigious daily to Rupert Murdoch if they had been aware of News International's conduct in the phone-hacking scandal at the time of the deal, writes Richard Tofel in this article co-published by ProPublica and The Guardian.
Un certain nombre de membres clés de la famille Bancroft, qui contrôlait Dow Jones & Company, ancien éditeur du Wall Street Journal, regrettent d'avoir cédé le quotidien américain à Rupert Murdoch en 2007 pour 5 milliards de dollars.
The Obama administration’s mortgage modification program is more than two years old. From the beginning, it’s been apparent that the participating banks and mortgage servicers were breaking the program’s rules. Now, after millions of homeowners have been rejected, the government has decided it’s finally time to crack down, writes Paul Kiel from ProPublica.
President Obama is facing a swell of bipartisan criticism for continuing military engagement in Libya without congressional approval. Even supporters of the Libya intervention have complained that the administration is flouting the law. So, is it? This analysis by Marian Wang of ProPublica.
Watch carefully, and you'll see how the three men who saved the world-Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, NY Fed's Timothy Geithner, and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson-get it wrong again and again and again, writes Jesse Eisinger.
Providers of civil legal services to the poor are having to furlough their staff, triage their clients, and turn away more people in need as a result of the congressional budget compromise reached last month.
The arrest of International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn for allegedly sexually assaulting a maid at a Midtown Manhattan hotel has raised many questions. One we had is what role diplomatic immunity might play -- and who else gets it.
