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24 alternatives to ProPublica - How Did The Flint Water Crisis Happen?

Report Ron Fonger explains how it unfolded

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. ProPublica - How Did The Flint Water Crisis Happen? launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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Reveal - Do not drink: The water crisis in Flint, Michigan▲61
How Flint, MI went from trusting tap water to fearing it
2016 · its alternatives →
2
Fix Flint's Water▲80
Apply for funding based on Elon's pledge
2018 · its alternatives →
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Detroit Water Project▲130
Connects donors to unpaid water bills
2015 · its alternatives →
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Give Water to Flint▲92
Help the people of Flint now in less than 5 minutes.
2016 · its alternatives →
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Internet History Podcast #126 - How the Dotcom Bubble Happened▲61
The background and root causes of the dotcom bubble.
2017 · its alternatives →
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Reveal- Water Bills Bleeding Them Dry▲60
The soaring costs of water in NYC in low-income areas
2015 · its alternatives →
7
Fresh Air - Lead Wars▲53
Flint, MI isn't the only place with lead problems
2016 · its alternatives →
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I simulated closing the Strait of Hormuz on real oil trade data▲244
OP here: I created this visualization tool as the byproduct of a supply chain class I taught at Columbia. The pedagogical exercise grew into a full blown visualization and paper about global oil trade. The model: The mechanics are the same as the financial network Eisenberg-Noe: Instead of banks, every country consumes oil interconnected via bilateral trading. Shocks propagate throughout the network, depleting oil reserves when bottleneck nodes (such as the Strait of Hormuz) are blocked. Insights: The interesting part is the mechanics of how the crisis unfolds: for example, France receives 0…
Jul 2026 · globaloilnetwork.staffinganalytics.io · its alternatives →
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On the media - What Did Exxon Know?▲55
@Bobosphere confronts @RDKeil1 on climate change
2015 · its alternatives →
10
The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know About Itself▲65
Andrew Pettegree tells us how the news spread before print
2016 · its alternatives →
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The Shock Doctrine▲62
The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
2017 · its alternatives →
12
Brewed in Bangkok - Surviving a Tsunami▲61
Eye witness talks about surviving the huge tsunami in 2004.
2016 · its alternatives →
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Planet Money #731: How Venezuela Imploded▲56
A huge economic collapse that was entirely avoidable
2016 · its alternatives →
14
Vox▲124
Understand the news.
2014 · its alternatives →
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How Do We Fix It - #39: Why Obamacare Might Collapse▲62
Is Obamacare the victim of "an adverse death spiral"?
2016 · its alternatives →
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Planet Money - Giant pool of money' mortgage crisis follow up▲61
Follow-up to the 2008 Mortgage Crisis
2015 · its alternatives →
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Reply All - #40 The Flower Child▲90
Fascinating investigation into the man behind Ripoff Report
2015 · its alternatives →
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The Invisible Bridge▲66
The fall of Nixon and the rise of Reagan
2015 · its alternatives →
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York▲62
Amazing detail on the level of impact one man had on NYC.
2015 · its alternatives →
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For God, Country, and Coca-Cola▲67
America's socio-economic history through the "glass"
2016 · its alternatives →
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Open Faucet▲135
Securely share documents with verified journalists
2017 · its alternatives →
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The Last of the President's Men▲55
The story of the Nixon whistleblower: Alexander Butterfield
2015 · its alternatives →
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Some Noise - When the Tides Change [Part II of II]▲52
How a fisherman fought NY state law w/ pre-colonial law
2016 · its alternatives →
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On the Media - Behind the Panama Papers▲54
Director of the ICIJ discusses coordinating #PanamaPapers
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