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What Happens When the Next Financial Crisis Strikes?
Tue Sep 11 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
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 poiso...
How Struggling Dayton, Ohio, Reveals the Chasm Among American Cities
Tue Sep 11 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
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....
GIJN’s Fundraising Primer for Nonprofit Media Groups
Tue Sep 11 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
One of the leading requests GIJN receives is for help with fundraising....
“The Beauty Of The Constitution Is That It Compels Us To Unlearn Our Prejudices”: Menaka Guruswamy Discusses The Section 377 Judgment
Mon Sep 10 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
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 relation...
Here’s What Happened to the 99 Immigrant Children Separated From Their Parents and Sent to Chicago
Mon Sep 10 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
Confidential records reveal details about struggles to find parents and traumatic experiences during the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance crackdown....
Pune Police Is Diverting The Bhima Koregaon Investigation, Protecting Bhide, Ekbote: Deputy Mayor Siddharth Dhende
Sun Sep 09 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Caravan publishes report of police-appointed committee, headed by Dhende, that finds Hindutva outfits “pre-planned” the Bhima Koregaon violence...
The Pentagon plans to spend $2 billion to help inject more artificial intelligence into its weaponry
Sat Sep 08 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
Officials say they want computers to be capable of explaining their decisions to military commanders ...
Top Cancer Researcher Fails to Disclose Corporate Financial Ties in Major Research Journals
Sat Sep 08 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
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 ...
What The Protesters At The Kisan-Mazdoor Sangharsh Rally Want To Tell The Modi Government
Fri Sep 07 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
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, h...
School Shootings, Trains vs Planes, Ukraine-Russia Trade, UK Airport Crimes
Fri Sep 07 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
What’s the global data journalism community tweeting about this week?...
Shridhar Damle: Modi Gave Idea For RSS Book; Promotions Deliberately Focused On White-Skinned Andersen
Fri Sep 07 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
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Heart Surgery “Legend” a Factor in Transplant Deaths, a St. Luke’s Colleague Told Inspector
Fri Sep 07 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
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 e...
There Was a Plan to Save This City From Flooding. But When the Rains Came, So Did Hesitance.
Thu Sep 06 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
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 ...
As Months Pass in Chicago Shelters, Immigrant Children Contemplate Escape, Even Suicide
Thu Sep 06 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
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 s...
State hate crime laws vary, often leaving out LBGTQ protections
Thu Sep 06 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
Five states don't have laws that specifically criminalize hate crimes. Laws in 45 other states differ....
The Dirty Words Journalists Have to Say Without Blushing
Thu Sep 06 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
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....
Company using foreign workers botches U.S. Senate campaign finance records
Thu Sep 06 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
A new spending bill contains a fix for an error-prone disclosure system. But will Congress act?...
White extremist groups are growing — and changing
Wed Sep 05 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
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...
Millions could lose low-cost phone service under FCC reforms
Wed Sep 05 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
Government wants to cut Lifeline program citing waste, fraud and abuse ...
How to Share Sensitive Documents, Mine Twitter and Monitor Website Updates
Wed Sep 05 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
When it comes to document management one of my favorite tools is DocumentCloud. ...