InvestigationJustice, Politics The War on Protest Political repression is on the rise as the state finds new ways to criminalize dissent and collective action. Adam FedermanIn These TimesApril 17, 2024
InvestigationJustice Revealed: how companies made $100m clearing California homeless camps Public spending on private sweep contractors is soaring across the state – and unhoused people allege poor treatment Brian BarthThe GuardianApril 16, 2024
InvestigationHealth When the State Comes for Your Estate Medicaid was designed to provide healthcare for the poorest Americans. But after death, their relatives can be socked with massive bills, as one Charlotte family learned. Safiya CharlesThe AssemblyApril 8, 2024
InvestigationEnvironment How the U.S. Government Began Its Decade-Long Campaign Against the Anti-Pipeline Movement Newly released documents show the FBI monitoring anti-Keystone protesters much earlier than previously known. Young Native activists were among its first targets. Adam FedermanGristFebruary 14, 2024
InvestigationJustice Louisiana Law Gives Judges a Financial Incentive to Set High Bail and Secure Convictions Years after a federal court declared the practice unconstitutional, judges continue to take money from criminal defendants. Some spend it on resort stays, luxury cars. Garrett HazelwoodWWNOJanuary 31, 2024
InvestigationBusiness, Labor A Death at Walmart Janikka Perry never made it home from her shift at the bakery of a supercenter in Arkansas. She was one of many Walmart workers who have been pressured to work through illness or pain, sometimes with devastating consequences. Jasper CravenNew RepublicJanuary 16, 2024
InvestigationPolitics The Eric Adams Table of Success Mayor Adams has said that “all my haters become my waiters when I sit down at the table of success.” Who’s at the table? How are they related? Why do they matter? Christopher Robbins, Esther Wang, Max Rivlin-Nadler, Nick Pinto, Adlan Jackson & Katie WayHell GateDecember 18, 2023
InvestigationJustice The Truth Behind The Experimental Therapy That Kids Say Starts With ‘Legalized Kidnapping’ Hundreds of children across the U.S. have been sent into controversial treatment programs where they’re cut off from the parent they trust and forced to live with the one they fear. Olivia Gentile, Erica Berenstein & Mark Adam MillerBusiness Insider, Retro Report on PBSNovember 6, 2023
InvestigationEnvironment, Justice The Climate Crisis Is Pushing Washington’s Prisons to the Brink Why not let people out? Sarah Sax & Christopher BlackwellHigh Country NewsNovember 1, 2023
InvestigationEnvironment, Politics The New Cold War in the Arctic Amid rising geopolitical tensions, the U.S. is expanding its military presence in Greenland, increasing the risk of something going very wrong. Adam FedermanIn These TimesOctober 30, 2023