InvestigationBusiness, Environment What BP Doesn’t Want You To Know about the Gulf Spill On the third anniversary of the Gulf of Mexico disaster, a secret manual suggests that BP sacrificed clean-up workers’ health to make the oil spill “disappear.” Mark HertsgaardNewsweekApril 19, 2013
InvestigationBusiness Renting to Addicts for Profit In the wake of the housing crash, unscrupulous landlords are making a profit by renting rooms in “sober houses” to recovering addicts. Sarah Gross & Lisa DesaiMarketplaceApril 5, 2013
InvestigationWorld The New Roma Ghettos Welcome to Slovakia, where scapegoating and isolating the country’s most precarious minority has become sport for skinheads and elected officials alike. Aaron Lake SmithViceApril 4, 2013
InvestigationPolitics The Right Leans In Media-savvy conservative nonprofits take aim and fire at progressive power bases in the states. Lee FangThe NationMarch 28, 2013
InvestigationJustice Gideon and the Decline of the Public Defender Fifty years ago Gideon v. Wainwright gave poor people the right free legal counsel. But in many states, that right now only exists on paper. Karen HouppertAl JazeeraMarch 27, 2013
InvestigationJustice Obama’s Crackdown on Whistle-blowers The NSA Four reveal how a toxic mix of cronyism and fraud blinded the agency in the lead-up to 9/11. Tim ShorrockThe NationMarch 26, 2013
InvestigationJustice Who Shot Valerie Finley? Rodney Stanberry has served 17 years for attempted murder, despite a mountain of exonerating evidence. A tale of what can happen when there’s no DNA. Beth SchwartzapfelThe Boston ReviewMarch 19, 2013
InvestigationWorld When the Jihad Came to Mali How diplomatic and military miscalculations helped sweep Islamic rebels into power. Joshua HammerThe New York Review of BooksMarch 5, 2013
InvestigationWorld Inside Baseball’s Dominican Sweatshop System Teen shortstop Yewri Guillén died the day the Nationals were supposed to ship him to America. Has Major League Baseball learned from the tragedy? Ian GordonMother JonesMarch 4, 2013
InvestigationImmigration, Justice, Politics How Private Prisons Game Immigration Reform Corrections Corporation of America and Geo Group dominate the big business of immigrant detention. And they’ve made a lot of friends in Washington. Lee FangThe NationFebruary 28, 2013