Ian MacDougall
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“I Do Not Want to Die in Here”: Letters From the Houston Jail
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A series of letters from detainees in one of America’s largest jails reveals the mounting dread and uncertainty as the coronavirus spreads inside the 7,500-inmate facility.
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Ian MacDougall Letters from the Houston jail: Well, now I’m in fear for my life, cause I have heart disease Our bunks are about 8 inches apart At this present time I am sick with a bad cold/flu, possibly coronavirus. I am scared My latest & 176d
How McKinsey infiltrated the world of global public health
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The Gates Foundation brought billions of dollars to the sector — and a business-friendly ethos consultants could exploit.
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Ian MacDougall I very highly recommend this excellent piece by & — on & the problems caused by the consultification of the global public health world 311d
Intercepted Podcast: McKinsey’s Work for Insurance Companies, ICE, Drug Manufacturers, and Despots
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Former health insurance executive Wendell Potter, reporter Ian MacDougall, and The Intercept’s Glenn Greenwald are this week’s guests.
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Ian MacDougall Many thanks to for having me on the podcast to discuss McKinsey & Co. and my reporting on the global consulting firm for & . You can listen to the podcast here 311d
New York City Paid McKinsey Millions to Stem Jail Violence. Instead, Violence Soared. — ProPublica
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The corporate consulting firm reported bogus numbers and flailed in a project at Rikers Island. Today, assaults and other attacks there are up almost 50%.
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Ian MacDougall Yesterday, I reported for on a failed $27.5M project to curb violence at NYC’s Rikers Island jail complex. For that story, I reviewed >10k pages of project documents. Let’s take a look at some of them. /1 318d
How McKinsey Helped the Trump Administration Detain and Deport Immigrants — ProPublica
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Newly uncovered documents show the consulting giant helped ICE find “detention savings opportunities” — including some that the agency’s staff viewed as too harsh on immigrants.
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Ian MacDougall This week & reported how consulting giant helped ICE implement the Trump admin’s immigration crackdown. The firm insists its work didn’t touch Trump immigration policy. Let’s look at the facts. /1 324d
How McKinsey Helped the Trump Administration Carry Out Its Immigration Policies
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Newly uncovered documents show the consulting giant helped ICE find “detention savings opportunities” — including measures the agency’s staff sometimes viewed as too harsh on immigrants.
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Ian MacDougall This week & reported how consulting giant helped ICE implement the Trump admin’s immigration crackdown. The firm insists its work didn’t touch Trump immigration policy. Let’s look at the facts. /1 324d
Feb 1 William Emanuel Letter
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Source document contributed to DocumentCloud by Ian MacDougall (ProPublica).
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Ian MacDougall After this story ran, William Emanuel, the NLRB member, told members of Congress he plans to clarify or correct a letter he sent to them last month—a letter we first reported on. We got a hold of the new letter too: 996d
NLRB Member Is Under Investigation for a Conflict of Interest — ProPublica
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William Emanuel, already criticized for allegedly favoring clients of the corporate law firm he used to work for, now faces a probe by the agency’s inspector general.
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Ian MacDougall After this story ran, William Emanuel, the NLRB member, told members of Congress he plans to clarify or correct a letter he sent to them last month—a letter we first reported on. We got a hold of the new letter too: 996d
The Streak of Streaks
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Joe DiMaggio's fifty-six–game hitting streak is both the greatest factual achievement in the history of baseball and a principal icon of American mythology. What shall we do with such a central item of our cultural history?
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Ian MacDougall Thank you for reminding me what an extraordinary essayist Stephen Jay Gould was 1224d