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AnalysisJustice

Virginia to Execute Teresa Lewis, IQ 72

In January 2010, Investigative Fund reporter Renee Feltz wrote a shocking cover story for The Texas Observer revealing that the state of Texas has continued to send mentally retarded inmates to death row — despite a U.S. Supreme Court ban. Now, Virginia is about to execute 41-year-old Teresa Lewis, whose IQ is 72…

AnalysisJustice

‘Take Back New Orleans’

One phrase haunts both Law & Disorder and If God is Willing and da Creek Don’t Rise, two television documentaries released this week featuring the work of Investigative Fund reporter A.C. Thompson: “Take back New Orleans.”

AnalysisPolitics

What Freedom of Information?

So I received in the mail yesterday a slim letter from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve in response to a Freedom of Information Request I sent in January 2009, more than nineteen months ago. “Board staff has been unable to respond to your request to date…”

AnalysisBusiness, Politics

RIP The Big Money — And Asking Tough Questions of Capitalism

Earlier this month, Slate shuttered a spinoff news site. It wasn’t the first time; its women’s site XX quickly came and went, after failing to attract enough ad dollars. But the loss of The Big Money after less than two years feels bigger, because it offered something that really isn’t available anywhere else: a space for serious business reporting that dared to question sacred assumptions about how the economy works.