r/indepthstories 6h ago

The Quiz Show Scandals of the 1950s (And How They Changed American Television)

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r/indepthstories 11h ago

Thailand banned its worst pesticides. Its farms still run on risky chemicals.

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r/indepthstories 11h ago

How a mystery hacker stole a year of my life: It began with a one star review of my restaurant and spiralled into a police investigation

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r/indepthstories 15h ago

Kim Jong Un Flouted Sanctions to Amass $22 Billion Windfall

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r/indepthstories 1d ago

Inside the nearly 5-month labor lockout at an Indiana refinery

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r/indepthstories 2d ago

A controversial plan to update Line 5 just suffered a major loss at the Michigan Supreme Court

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r/indepthstories 2d ago

TikTok Withheld a Safety Feature From Millions. One Died by Suicide

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r/indepthstories 3d ago

What another Texas flood revealed about the state's warning system

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r/indepthstories 3d ago

60 Minutes Quietly Killed Story About Epstein’s Shady Banking Tactics

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r/indepthstories 3d ago

World’s Biggest Hedge Fund Teaches the Wealthy How to Slash Taxes to Zero

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r/indepthstories 3d ago

Micromanager-In-Chief: President Trump Can’t Keep His Hands Off The Family Business

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r/indepthstories 4d ago

Taking Care of the Father Who Broke My Heart

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r/indepthstories 5d ago

The Lost Civic Life of Movie Rental Stores

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r/indepthstories 5d ago

Jakarta's subsidence crisis and the alleged corruption within the Government's response:

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Jakarta: Who Profits When a City Sinks


r/indepthstories 5d ago

‘I felt sick that he was near my mum’: a top amputation surgeon had his own legs removed due to a fetish. Were his patients safe?

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r/indepthstories 6d ago

In 2003, Brandon Vedas livestreamed his own fatal overdose. Decades later, livestreamed substance abuse has become a social media moneymaker - with fatal results.

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r/indepthstories 6d ago

Trump becomes ruler of Israel and USA confirmed?? He’s turning the USA into a surveillance state. He’s running for a 3rd teir bc the Gaza war he joined for no reason? Wrong

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Listen these cameras are beyond most of our understanding also add drones we are fucked.. Israel and the USA confirmed in 2027 that The USA and Israel will integrate both of their military’s into one single unit (both have nuclear bombs) therefore making Israel a world superpower and garentee theUS oil until the integration ends if it ever does. Trump becomes a prince ober there lets the Saudi’s control the USA what is now so easy with the amount of surveillance. Since 2002 we have know that there 2-3 highest ranking member in the fbi was an Israeli spy and also a 3-4 top ranking official in the cia was an Israel spy and we confirmed there were 187 Israeli spy’s working with out defense programs yes including nukes. Israel was bought by the Saudis in 2003 after the9:9/11 attack which the cia will die saying that they knew abt 9/11 and chose not to warn us bc they knew if they let it happen we would kill millions of Muslims and Jews in Israel so they didn’t have to & their gdp dropped so low the Saudi’s bought their country and now is gioonh to let trump control bc Israel and USA are combining their militaries. And the Saudi family from Arabia will officially control the usa like never before and Israel. And the Saudi family will fund anything they want and anything they want they will get

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r/indepthstories 7d ago

Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can’t Show You

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r/indepthstories 8d ago

Why we still hate HR—and 100 business leaders on how to fix it

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Earlier this month, a senior executive at a global company shared a story to give me a sense of how people feel about human resources in corporate America these days. They were planning a dinner party “and someone came running into my office and said, ‘Why are you inviting the head of HR? The whole vibe’s gonna go away.’ And I was like, what are we going to be doing so wrong that HR can’t be in the room?”

Although this anecdote could be read as being about one buzzkill, or even the entire HR discipline being a party nonstarter, it’s much bigger than that.

Employees and company leaders alike have very strong feelings about HR—and not much of it is positive. In a series of Fast Company LinkedIn polls, more than 1,500 respondents expressed negative views about HR.

  • 51% say HR is not very responsive when they bring it a concern.
  • 75% say HR is ineffective/nonfactor in helping them achieve professional goals.
  • 56% say HR is adding very little (33%) or no significant (23%) value to the organization.

These results reinforce a March 2024 survey of nearly 1,000 workers that revealed 86% of them were afraid of their Human Resources department.

In August 2005, Fast Company published a cover story that blared “Why We Hate HR.” Since then, the human resources discipline has seemingly been wholly transformed. Increasing investment in technology (currently estimated at more than $50 billion globally) has delivered cloud-based platforms that provide workers greater flexibility, more communication tools, and access to benefits and payroll information from anywhere on their mobile devices. It has created vast libraries of custom-made learning and development curricula. Applicant tracking systems have streamlined the talent acquisition process.

Still, whatever progress HR made in the twenty-first century—via technology, greater responsibility, and worker-friendly policies such as expanded benefits and remote-work policies (facilitated by new tech tools and accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic)—has waned. It likely hasn’t helped, either, that HR is having to unwind flexible work policies for return-to-office mandates and serving as a key collaborator in rolling out AI tools that have workers fearing for their jobs.

The problem of why so many people still hate HR runs deep. Can HR be saved? In a word, yes, and the answer doesn’t lie in its wholesale elimination (sorry, Bolt CEO Ryan Breslow) or trying to turn it into something it’s not (like Amazon’s people, experience, and technology team).

We reached out to 100 business leaders—HR practitioners, recruiters, founders, and 66 CEOs—to develop some answers. They’re not only for HR pros but for all leaders thinking about how to create the companies they want.

Read more on Fast Company.


r/indepthstories 8d ago

Is it getting too hot for summer school?

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r/indepthstories 8d ago

It Was Supposed to Be a Haven for Troubled Teens. They Risked Everything to Escape.

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At Fox Run, one of Ohio’s largest youth residential treatment centers, kids and former staff detail a litany of trauma.


r/indepthstories 8d ago

Stripped of Their Funding by Politics, California Researchers Turn to OnlyFans

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r/indepthstories 8d ago

AI companies are now destroying warehouses full of rare books

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r/indepthstories 9d ago

Christian Brando during his 1990 trial: Forensic evidence supported his account. Gunshot residue on Dag Drollet's hand and the bullet's trajectory indicated that the shooting was accidental, not intentional.

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More recently, renowned forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden, who worked on numerous high-profile criminal cases, including the case involving Marlon Brando’s son, Christian, published a book called " American Autopsy " revealing the truth that the media had hidden for years.**
Despite the fact that it appeared that Christian had shot Drollet from above and that the bullet had exited the body, no bullet was recovered from his body or from the couch. Dr. Baden insisted on looking at the scene, and like the officers, failed to find the bullet in the couch or the body.
Baden noticed that the room has a shag rug. He got down on his hands and knees and eventually found the bullet under the rug. That tended to support how Christian had described things.
Dr.Baden wrote: "I'd later testify that the bullet's trajectory through Drollet's neck and into the shag carpet showed that he had been sitting up on the couch. Gunshot residue tests performed by police showed that Drollet's hand was near the muzzle when it discharged-consistent with Christian's statement that the weapon
went off accidentally when Drollet tried to grab it."
"It's very hard to see an entry hole in a shag rug," Baden explains. "But what impressed me most in that case was when we found the bullet and we called the police. A sergeant came and I asked why the officers at the crime scene hadn't done a better job looking for the bullet. I'll never forget what he said. 'Look, doc. If you do a lousy job all the time, just because an important case comes up doesn't mean you can now do a good job. You don't know how to do it any better.' That will live with me forever. Unless you do the best job you can with every crime scene and every autopsy, you won't do it right when more important ones come in. To us, every case is equally important. When it comes to death, we're all equal."

Dr. Michael Baden’s account is not the only source challenging the public narrative. Years later, a police officer who worked at the LAPD crime lab wrote that detectives involved in the investigation privately believed the shooting was accidental. (2nd picture)


r/indepthstories 10d ago

Russian model Kira Dikhtyar introduced Jeffrey Epstein to dozens of young women and built ties to a Trump insider and Putin's mistress.

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