Kanhaiya Kumar Says Narendra Modi Can’t 'Divert' People From High Petrol Prices, Unemployment And Corruption Anymore
In an interview, Kanhaiya Kumar explains why he thinks Narendra Modi's 'Divert And Rule' politics is over. | Read more|
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Churu Drug Trials: Four Months On, Dalit Victims Report Severe Damage To Health And Caste-Based Harassment
It was mid April, the onset of the heat wave in Rajasthan. | Read more|
Authorities Can Now Deny Visa and Green Card Applications Without Giving Applicants a Chance to Fix Errors
Immigration lawyers call the policy change, which kicks in today, another brick in Trump’s “invisible wall” to make legal immigration as difficult as possible. | Read more|
What Happens When the Next Financial Crisis Strikes?
As the 10-year anniversary of the last crash nears, pundits are predicting the next one. That’ll bring another problem: Who’s going to solve the crisis when our president has poisoned relations with the institutions that helped fix the last one? | Read more|
How Struggling Dayton, Ohio, Reveals the Chasm Among American Cities
As a ProPublica/Frontline documentary shows, the economic and social gaps among cities are growing as dramatic as the gaps between urban and rural areas. | Read more|
Collaborations Help Strengthen Journalism in Venezuela
Amid protests, human rights violations, social instability and an unprecedented food crisis, collaborative journalism is getting stronger in Venezuela. | Read more|
UIDAI’s Aadhaar Software Hacked, ID Database Compromised, Experts Confirm
Skilled hackers disabled security features of Aadhaar enrolment software, circulated hack on Whatsapp | Read more|
“The Beauty Of The Constitution Is That It Compels Us To Unlearn Our Prejudices”: Menaka Guruswamy Discusses The Section 377 Judgment
On 6 September, in a landmark unanimous verdict, a five-judge bench of the Supreme Court partially struck down Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code to decriminalise sexual relations between consenting adults. | Read more|
GIJN’s Fundraising Primer for Nonprofit Media Groups
One of the leading requests GIJN receives is for help with fundraising. | Read more|
Here’s What Happened to the 99 Immigrant Children Separated From Their Parents and Sent to Chicago
Confidential records reveal details about struggles to find parents and traumatic experiences during the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance crackdown. | Read more|
Pune Police Is Diverting The Bhima Koregaon Investigation, Protecting Bhide, Ekbote: Deputy Mayor Siddharth Dhende
The Caravan publishes report of police-appointed committee, headed by Dhende, that finds Hindutva outfits “pre-planned” the Bhima Koregaon violence | Read more|
What The Protesters At The Kisan-Mazdoor Sangharsh Rally Want To Tell The Modi Government
The farmers' demands include proper implementation of government schemes, including increasing the minimum wages under the MGNREGA, as well as better access to health, education, housing and food security. | Read more|
The Pentagon plans to spend $2 billion to help inject more artificial intelligence into its weaponry
Officials say they want computers to be capable of explaining their decisions to military commanders | Read more|
Top Cancer Researcher Fails to Disclose Corporate Financial Ties in Major Research Journals
A senior official at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has received millions of dollars in payments from companies that are involved in medical research. His omissions expose how weakly conflict-of-interest rules are enforced by journals. | Read more|
Shridhar Damle: Modi Gave Idea For RSS Book; Promotions Deliberately Focused On White-Skinned Andersen
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Heart Surgery “Legend” a Factor in Transplant Deaths, a St. Luke’s Colleague Told Inspector
Notes released by a federal agency indicate that one of the hospital’s top heart transplant doctors spoke about “a retiring surgeon” who “wouldn’t stop performing transplants” in explaining a rash of patient deaths. Only Dr. O.H. “Bud” Frazier matches that description. | Read more|
There Was a Plan to Save This City From Flooding. But When the Rains Came, So Did Hesitance.
The Army Corps of Engineers’ delay in activating a floodway — land designated to take on water — cost millions of dollars in damage to Cairo, Illinois, and surrounding communities in 2011. | Read more|
As Months Pass in Chicago Shelters, Immigrant Children Contemplate Escape, Even Suicide
ZERO TOLERANCE As Months Pass in Chicago Shelters, Immigrant Children Contemplate Escape, Even Suicide Internal documents reveal despair and tedium in one of the nation’s largest shelter networks for unaccompanied minors. | Read more|
School Shootings, Trains vs Planes, Ukraine-Russia Trade, UK Airport Crimes
What’s the global data journalism community tweeting about this week? | Read more|
State hate crime laws vary, often leaving out LBGTQ protections
Five states don't have laws that specifically criminalize hate crimes. Laws in 45 other states differ. | Read more|
At Hearing for Bronx Trash Hauler, More Questions About Safety and Oversight
Unregistered employees. Dangerously long driving schedules. Sanitation Salvage’s bid last week to have its suspension lifted produced more damning findings and fresh questions about why it took regulators so long to act. | Read more|
Why Am I Seeing This? Interesting Facebook Ads From Our Political Ad Collector
We're highlighting examples from our Facebook political ad collection that are interesting because of how they're targeted, what they say or how they can help explain how Facebook's advertising system works — and how it can be gamed. | Read more|
The Dirty Words Journalists Have to Say Without Blushing
The following text is a translation from the Spanish version of a lecture James Breiner gave at the University of La Sabana in Bogotá, Colombia, on August 22. | Read more|
Company using foreign workers botches U.S. Senate campaign finance records
A new spending bill contains a fix for an error-prone disclosure system. But will Congress act? | Read more|
White extremist groups are growing — and changing
Experts say the term 'hate group' is increasingly difficult to define, as extremist groups grow in number, diversify in ideology and use codewords to spread their messages | Read more|
Millions could lose low-cost phone service under FCC reforms
Government wants to cut Lifeline program citing waste, fraud and abuse | Read more|
How to Share Sensitive Documents, Mine Twitter and Monitor Website Updates
When it comes to document management one of my favorite tools is DocumentCloud. | Read more|
The Imam’s Widow
As the wife of a Muslim religious leader, she came to America with uncertainty and hope. A suspected hate crime snuffed out the hope. | Read more|
CJI Dipak Misra recommends Justice Ranjan Gogoi as his successor
Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra has written to the government recommending Justice Ranjan Gogoi as his successor. | Read more|
The Database Documenting 60 Years of Conflict in Colombia
For five years, about 100 people processed 10,236 datasets from 592 sources and documented 353,531 facts for the Memory and Conflict Observatory, a project that seeks to document the violent events that occurred during the Colombian war. The results can be summarized into a shocking number: 262,197 fatalities over 60 y | Read more|
The Many Plots To Assassinate Narendra Modi
The circumstances surrounding all the purported assassination plots against Narendra Modi are intriguing—for the backgrounds of the individuals allegedly plotting the murder, for the political climate in which they were revealed, and for the media organisations that break the news. | Read more|
If You Raise Questions, You Are Anti-Government, Anti-National: Adivasi-Rights Activist Stan Swamy On The Bhima-Koregaon Crackdown
On 28 August, the Pune Police raided the homes of nine prominent human-rights activists and intellectuals across the country. | Read more|
From Ministry to Muckraking: The Biblical Basis for Investigative Reporting
Some people say journalists are “godless.” But I spent five years in full-time Christian ministry, and my faith has made me a better reporter. | Read more|
Despite outrage over immigrant detention, private prisons' bottom line is still strong
Two of the nation’s largest private prison companies expect to cash in on additional federal contracts, according to August earnings calls. | Read more|
Jain monk Tarun Sagar passes away at 51
Tarun Sagar was born as Pawan Kumar Jain on 1967 in Damoh, Madhya Prdaesh. | Read more|