As many as 400,000 people are estimated to be affected by diseases, such as cancers, and mental illnesses linked to September 11. This figure includes those who lived and worked within a mile and a half of Ground Zero in Manhattan and Brooklyn, the vast majority of whom still don’t know they’re at risk. Mark Farfel, director of the World Trade Center Health Registry, which tracks the health of more than 71,000 rescue workers and survivors, says, “Many people don’t connect the symptoms they have today to September 11.”
Home Stories Podcast Jersey Books Why Volkswagen’s Emissions Scandal Could Happen Again Leah McGrath Goodman Newsweek June 15, 2016 In a repeat of the events that preceded Volkswagen’s emissions cheating scandal, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency...
Late last year, at the height of its “Dieselgate” scandal, Volkswagen unfurled a white banner across the front of its iconic 1930s-era plant in Wolfsburg, Germany. Written on it was an appeal in German that translated to: “We need transparency, energy and courage—but most of all, we need you.”
Of all the rarefied niches on Wall Street, perhaps the most opaque and exclusive is the hedge fund industry, where traders are handed millions and even billions of dollars to invest on behalf of banks, endowments, pension funds and the superrich.
As Wealth Inequality Soars, One City Shows the Way Leah McGrath GoodmanNewsweekSeptember 24, 2015 Traffic travels under a sign on Washington Boulevard in Ogden, Utah, August 17. The city, together with its neighboring communities, has the narrowest wealth gap among...
Survivors Question Role of U.K. Home Office in Child Abuse Inquiry Leah McGrath GoodmanNewsweekAugust 18, 2015 After years of horrifying revelations about sexual abuse of children by people of power and influence, Britain called in a judge from New Zealand in a bid to...
