Decca Muldowney

Reporter-Researcher

Decca Muldowney is a former reporter-researcher for The Daily Beast. She was previously an investigative researcher at Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting, a Senior Research Fellow at ProPublica; and an NYC real estate reporter. Send her tips: decca.muldowney@thedailybeast.com or tips@thedailybeast.com. You can also use our anonymous document submission system, SecureDrop. Click here to find out how.

Karen England holds a book she has targeted for bans.

CHIEF PUPPETEER

Meet the Woman Training Parents How to Get Books Banned

Karen England is successfully teaching people how to remove books from school libraries, even outside of their school districts, starting with refusing to use the term “book ban.”

Decca Muldowney

Kari Lake, Laura Loomer and Naomi Wolf all love The Wellness Company

GOOP FOR THE GOP

MAGA Influencers Are Sold on This Grifty Wellness Company

The Wellness Company has helped underwrite the online programming of Kari Lake, Laura Loomer, Naomi Wolf, and others. But critics say the Goop-like firm is a “prolific grift.”

William Bredderman

Ottawa County Health Officer Adeline Hambley

NO RETURN POLICY

Far-Right Board Now Feels $4M Resignation Offer Is Excessive

Michigan's Ottawa County made its Health Department boss an offer she couldn’t refuse to quit. Now, it appears the ultraconservative group thinks it may have overdone it.

Decca Muldowney