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 Cor​p​watch​.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/​p​h​o​t​o​s​/​t​e​r​r​y​a​l​l​e​n​/​a​lbums. Terry can be contacted at tallen@​igc.​org or through www​.ter​ry​jallen​.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.

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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.
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Rural America
Undocumented in Vermont: The Hidden Life of a Migrant Farmworker​
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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.
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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.
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The Vermont-New York Heroin-and-Guns Carousel That Can Make Dealers a 1,400% Profit
Shooting up in Vermont, shooting up New York.
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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.
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Why Eric Garner Couldn’t Breathe
The chokehold is only half the story of homicidal violence.
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Do You Want Shrapnel with That Airbag?
Culpable carmakers and captive regulators make a deadly combo.
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The Pandemic We Are Ignoring
A possible cure for hep-C comes at a great cost to the sick.
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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.
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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.
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Why Paid Sick Days Are a No-Brainer
They keep you--and everyone else--healthy.
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The Hypocritical Oath: Make a Healthy Profit
Practitioners of both traditional and alternative medicine rake in cash from the credulous.
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Compounders Slip Through Deadly FDA Loophole
A Big-Pharma-funded Congress has tied regulators' hands. The result? Lethal drugs.
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Death in Pleasant Valley
Some California prisoners have contracted a cruel and unusual punishment.
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Starving for Justice at Gitmo
Is force-feeding a form of torture?
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A Flu Shot in the Dark
Does 9 percent success rate in the elderly justify universal vaccination?
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Frack You and the Sand You Rode In On
Fracking's evil twin: the mining of prehistoric sand.
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Clothing to Die For
Bangladesh garment workers earn an average of $43 a month, and sometimes lose their lives.
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Demented Medicine
BigPharma's illegal and abusive treatment of dementia patients.
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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.
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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.
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Doctor Who?
The corporations behind WebMD’s friendly, free advice
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The Deadly Addiction to Cheap Meat
How the overuse of antibiotics on livestock is making us sick.
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Collateral Insanity in Afghanistan
After decades of military devastation, Afghans are traumatized.
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Paula Deen: This Little Piggy Went to Market
Why the TV cooking celebrity waited three years to announce her diabetes.
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U.S. Military Toxins: The Gift That Keeps on Killing
A tragic history of pollution continues in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The Lonesome Death of Josh Dylan Pfenning
A man who is unhoused kills himself at an Occupy encampment, underscoring America's widening chasms.
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CIA Boosts Vaccination Conspiracies
The agency's public health ruse to confirm Bin Laden's whereabouts caused collateral damage.
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U.S. Drug Shortage:  Big Pharma, Big Phuck-Up
An under-regulated industry collapses in on itself; the sick pay the price.
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Global Land Grab
Fear of unrest and hunger for profit are sparking massive acquisitions of farmland.
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Cut Waste and Fraud, Not Medicare
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Resistance Is Fatal
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Vermonters Exercise Their Nuclear Option
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A Spoonful of Subsidies for Big Pharma
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Urology’s Golden Revenue Stream
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How to Manufacture a Disease
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Let Them Drink Soda
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Coal Ash: The Glowing National Security Threat
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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.
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The Cruel Irony of Organic Standards
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Dispatch
BP: Dispersing Oil or Criticism?
Toxic chemicals helped the oil giant save face, but their health and environmental impacts are unknown
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U.S. Nuclear Plants: Old and Incontinent
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BP Bets the Planet—We Lose
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The Global Volcanic Feedback Loop
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Offshoring Human Drug Trials
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Balls, Blows and NFL Eunuchs
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Death by Privatization
For-profit prison healthcare system implicated in death of inmate.
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