Terry J. Allen - In These Times

Terry J. Allen is a veteran investigative reporter/editor who has covered local and international politics and health and science issues. Her work has appeared in the Guardian, Boston Globe, Times Argus, Harper’s, the Nation.com, Salon.com, and New Scientist . She has been an editor at Amnesty International, In These Times , and Corpwatch.com. She is also a photographer. Her portraits of people sitting in some of the 1900 cars lined up outside a Newport, Vt., food drop can be seen on www.flickr.com/photos/terryallen/albums. Terry can be contacted at tallen@igc.org or through www.terryjallen.com.

She was senior researcher for the book The Impeachment of George W. Bush (2007), and contributed to the Sundance prize-winning documentary film Trouble The Water (2008). Contact her at tallen@igc.org.

Tear Gas and Pepper Spray Can Be Deadly, But the U.S. Won’t Regulate Police Use

Despite widespread use, chemical agents sold for police purposes aren't monitored by any federal agency.

Undocumented in Vermont: The Hidden Life of a Migrant Farmworker

Trump Can’t Follow Through on His Promises—And Will Need A Scapegoat

The more he fails to deliver on his economic pledges, the more he’ll try to shift the blame.

Trump Bullies, Boasts and Bullshits in Bernie’s Burlington

Sitting in the audience was like watching blood dry—a convergence of the compellingly grotesque and the mind-numbingly boring.

The Vermont-New York Heroin-and-Guns Carousel That Can Make Dealers a 1,400% Profit

Shooting up in Vermont, shooting up New York.

Salman Rushdie on Charlie Hebdo: ‘Vilifying … These Fallen Artists’ Is ‘Disgraceful’

The target of an infamous fatwa weighs in on satire, free speech and religion.

Why Eric Garner Couldn’t Breathe

The chokehold is only half the story of homicidal violence.

Do You Want Shrapnel with That Airbag?

Culpable carmakers and captive regulators make a deadly combo.

The Pandemic We Are Ignoring

A possible cure for hep-C comes at a great cost to the sick.

Anaphylactic Sticker Shock

Road trip! Or, two middle-aged women go on a Hunter S. Thompson-esque drug-buying spree across an international border. And score.

Polio: Syria’s War on Children

The spread of polio is a public health emergency. In Syria, it's also being used to suppress the opposition.

Why Paid Sick Days Are a No-Brainer

They keep you--and everyone else--healthy.

The Hypocritical Oath: Make a Healthy Profit

Practitioners of both traditional and alternative medicine rake in cash from the credulous.

Compounders Slip Through Deadly FDA Loophole

A Big-Pharma-funded Congress has tied regulators' hands. The result? Lethal drugs.

Death in Pleasant Valley

Some California prisoners have contracted a cruel and unusual punishment.

Starving for Justice at Gitmo

Is force-feeding a form of torture?

A Flu Shot in the Dark

Does 9 percent success rate in the elderly justify universal vaccination?

Frack You and the Sand You Rode In On

Fracking's evil twin: the mining of prehistoric sand.

Clothing to Die For

Bangladesh garment workers earn an average of $43 a month, and sometimes lose their lives.

Demented Medicine

BigPharma's illegal and abusive treatment of dementia patients.

Paul Ryan Hefts White Man’s Burden

The real news isn’t Paul Ryan cutting off an interview; it’s the racist comment he made just before.

Bain’s Birth by Death Squads

Romney scrutinized over investments from Salvadoran families that ran a corrupt government, 12 years of murderous civil war and death squads.

The corporations behind WebMD’s friendly, free advice

The Deadly Addiction to Cheap Meat

How the overuse of antibiotics on livestock is making us sick.

Collateral Insanity in Afghanistan

After decades of military devastation, Afghans are traumatized.

Paula Deen: This Little Piggy Went to Market

Why the TV cooking celebrity waited three years to announce her diabetes.

U.S. Military Toxins: The Gift That Keeps on Killing

A tragic history of pollution continues in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Lonesome Death of Josh Dylan Pfenning

A man who is unhoused kills himself at an Occupy encampment, underscoring America's widening chasms.

CIA Boosts Vaccination Conspiracies

The agency's public health ruse to confirm Bin Laden's whereabouts caused collateral damage.

U.S. Drug Shortage: Big Pharma, Big Phuck-Up

An under-regulated industry collapses in on itself; the sick pay the price.

Global Land Grab

Fear of unrest and hunger for profit are sparking massive acquisitions of farmland.

Cut Waste and Fraud, Not Medicare

Resistance Is Fatal

Vermonters Exercise Their Nuclear Option

A Spoonful of Subsidies for Big Pharma

Urology’s Golden Revenue Stream

How to Manufacture a Disease

Let Them Drink Soda

Coal Ash: The Glowing National Security Threat

In Vermont, Shades of McCarthy

The state's Republican candidate for governor waves a bogus list—but this time the enemies are prisoners, not communists.

The Cruel Irony of Organic Standards

BP: Dispersing Oil or Criticism?

Toxic chemicals helped the oil giant save face, but their health and environmental impacts are unknown

U.S. Nuclear Plants: Old and Incontinent

BP Bets the Planet—We Lose

The Global Volcanic Feedback Loop

Offshoring Human Drug Trials

Balls, Blows and NFL Eunuchs

Death by Privatization

For-profit prison healthcare system implicated in death of inmate.

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