Years of Warnings, Then Death and Disaster
“The men and women of the Navy deserve better.”
Fight the Ship: Death and Valor on an American Warship Doomed By Its Own Navy
When a cargo ship plowed into the USS Fitzgerald, it tore a hole in the destroyer as big as a tractor trailer; seven sailors ultimately died. A cargo ship should be hard to miss, so how did it happen?
How the IRS Was Gutted
Tax evaders, rejoice: the Internal Revenue Service may not have enough resources to come after the vast majority of those offshore bank accounts. It also doesn’t have enough resources to investigate white collar crime, curb suspicious corporate activity, shore up the nation’s rising budget deficit, or answer tens of millions of law-abiding taxpayers’ questions. And now, just when morale is at its lowest, the IRS stands to lose a third of its most valuable and experienced workers next year as the organization’s most senior cohort becomes eligible for retirement.
‘I Don’t Want to Shoot You, Brother’
Officer Stephen Mader chose not to shoot R.J. Williams, choosing instead to de-escalate. He was right — Williams’ gun wasn’t loaded, so he was never a real threat — but another office on the scene shot him anyway. And then Mader got fired.
Unprotected
Katie Meyler founded the More Than Me Academy in Liberia to educate girls and get them off the street. She also hired the man who would rape dozens of MTM’s 11 and 12 year old students, impregnating some and leaving others HIV positive.
The Child Abuse Contrarian
Ehlers-Danlos syndrome is a rare condition that may cause injuries that mimic child abuse. What are the chances that 100% of the allegedly abused children Dr. Michael Horlick sees have it?
The Disappeared
“For Miguel’s family and many others terrorized by MS-13, the police response came too late, and remains too little.”
Blood-Spatter Expert in Joe Bryan Case Says “My Conclusions Were Wrong”
Pamela Colloff’s ProPublica/New York Times investigation into the murder conviction of Joe Bryant exposed huge flaws in the prosecution, and now they’re coming to light in court.
Blood Will Tell, Part II
The conclusion to Pamela Colloff’s intensive investigation into the murder conviction of Joe Bryan and the flawed forensic “science” — blood spatter analysis — on which it rests.
Blood Will Tell, Part One
Mickey Bryan’s, husband, a beloved high school principal, was charged with killing her. Did he do it, or had there been a terrible mistake?