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Corrupt practices

The Problem of Pain Management

by Simon Liem, Jonah Campbell,

The makers of OxyContin play dirty

The Octopus and Its Grandchildren

When an 1882 cartoon in San Francisco’s Wasp newspaper depicted the Southern Pacific Railroad as an octopus with the whole state of California in its far-reaching tentacles, it launched an…

The Guantánamo “Suicides,” Revisited

by Scott Horton,

A missing document suggests a possible CIA cover-up

Good Cop, Sad Cop

From remarks by Joseph Esposito, a retired New York City police officer, during a wiretapped phone conversation with another former city employee. Esposito was accused in January of helping some…

Dirty South

by Ken Silverstein, Samuel James,

The foul legacy of Louisiana oil

If Memory Swerves

by Thomas Frank,

September 15 will mark five years since the beginning of the economic slump that defines the world we live in. Disaster was in the air already by that day in…

A Brief History of Scent

by Beau Friedlander,

The smell of life and death — and everything in between

Glaciers for Sale

by McKenzie Funk,

A global-warming get-rich-quick scheme

Plaque Ops

by Russell Mokhiber,

The corporate conquest of a labor-relations school

Long Division

by Vanessa Gregory,

A blueprint for the failure of low-income housing

The Elements of Guile

From more than 3,000 terms used in emails between employees engaged in corporate wrongdoing, collected from fraud investigations since 2009 and used by the accounting firm Ernst & Young in…