The Price of Paradise Imagine the salty air of St. Croix, the gentle Caribbean breeze rustling through the palms. It’s a place people dream of whilst stuck in their dingy ass cubicle working a shitty office job. Now, picture a…
Corporate Misconduct Case Study: Homeworks Construction and Its Impact on Indiana and Michigan Families An Invisible Poison Imagine an invisible poison unleashed in your home. You can’t see it or smell it, but it’s there. It settles on the floors…
Imagine you are playing a poker game. You think it’s fair. Suddenly, you realize one player has a hidden device. It tells him exactly what cards you are holding. He isn’t winning because he’s better. He is winning because he…
The Threat Beneath the Streets This here was a story that unfolded in silence, deep beneath the pavement of a Baltimore neighborhood. At the Brody Trucking Co., Inc. facility in Baltimore, two massive tanks lie buried in the earth. One…
The $183 Million Shell Game Medicaid was supposed to be a massively lifesaving promise our government makes to low-income Americans: when you get sick, you won’t be left behind. It pays for doctor visits and life-saving prescriptions. We, the taxpayers,…
Imagine being a key witness in a major fraud case. You testified under oath years ago, telling federal regulators that your former boss, a man named Frank Harmon Black, had openly lied to them. You watched as he was barred…
Imagine this. You need a car. Not a fancy one because you’re a broke ass like me, just something reliable to get you to work, to shuttle the kids, to live your life. You find a used car dealership in…
The Poison We Pay For It starts with a cough. Or maybe a stomachache. For a child, the world is a landscape to be touched and tasted. A windowsill, a floorboard, a tiny hand tracing the peeling paint on a…
Imagine sitting down with a financial advisor at a big, trusted bank. You’re planning for retirement. The advisor looks at your variable annuity—a complex but common retirement product—and suggests an “upgrade.” A new one, they say, with better features. It…
A River of Excuses West Virginia has some rivers. The ones relevant to this story are the Elk, the Kanawha, the Pocatalico. Picture the water slipping over ancient stones, the glint of sunlight on the surface. These are the places…