Bryce Covert is an independent journalist who writes about the economy. She is a contributing writer at The Nation, and her work has appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, Bloomberg ...
Across the U.S., about 30,000 municipal fire departments have used Class B aqueous film-forming foam (AFFF) for decades, assured it was safe as dish soap. Spreading the billowing foam on ...
Matt Russell is a producer at Tortoise, a British news website.
The recent firefighting foam spill in Brunswick points to a much larger problem Maine has ignored During 21 years working as a municipal firefighter, “I had hyper-exposure” to foam, recalled ...
A Fire Hose of 'Forever Chemicals'. Video courtesy of the Maine Morning Star. The Maine Morning Star in partnership with the Pulitzer Center has published a 3-part investigative series by independent ...
Madeline Cantrell is a senior journalism and political science undergraduate from the University of Oklahoma specializing in political and investigative reporting. From Kansas City, Missouri, she is ...
The relationship between conflict and the spread of “superbugs” has been one of increasing concern. Image by Ann Peters. United States. A pediatric physician in the final months of his residency and ...
Vincenzo Romano accompanies his twin children, Anna and Nicola, to school in Naples, Italy. Image by Camillo Barone. 2023. Vincenzo Romano had only been a father for 26 days when in the middle of a ...
Image courtesy of Méuri Elle/ Intercept Brasil. While reducing its public safety team, X tried to clean up the service’s image by paying cents for tasks on an AI training platform. Brazilian workers ...
AI still faces hurdles in making the world more accessible to the disabled. “Let us get back to you on um, specifically, uh, people with, um, you know, um, with limited functionality.” I was ...
Pierce "Sparni" Sparnroft, left, and Steve Nelson outside of Smoke Jazz Club. Image by Ania Gruszczyńska. United States, 2023. It was the final rehearsal of the semester, five days before the winter ...