InvestigationEnvironment, Labor, Politics Rules Should Follow Small Fishermen Is the government destroying fisheries in order to save them? Tom GogolaNewsdayJuly 29, 2011
InvestigationBusiness The Billion Dollar Bank Heist How the financial industry is buying off Washington and killing reform. The only winners seem to be well-paid lobbyists and the legislators who are being showered with campaign dollars. Gary RivlinNewsweekJuly 12, 2011
InvestigationWorld The Shelters That Clinton Built After Haiti’s earthquake, the Clinton Foundation promised hurricane shelters that would double as classrooms. But they delivered shoddy, formaldehyde-tainted trailers from the same company that supplied FEMA after Katrina. Isabel Macdonald & Isabeau DoucetThe NationJuly 11, 2011
InvestigationEnvironment, Labor, Politics Bycatch 22 As a twisted consequence of overfishing regulations, commercial fishermen have no choice but to catch sea bass, flounder, monkfish, and tuna — and throw them dead back into the sea. Tom GogolaNew YorkJuly 10, 2011
InvestigationWorld Doubt, Suspicion at Cambodia War Trial A UN court brings some former Khmer Rouge leaders to justice amid suspicions that it whitewashed related investigations. Douglas GillisonTimeJune 28, 2011
InvestigationWorld Operation Birthright How a small group of wealthy American Jews and Israeli politicians set out to create the next generation of Zionists. Kiera FeldmanThe NationJune 16, 2011
InvestigationBusiness, Politics The Bank Lobby v. Elizabeth Warren The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is poised to launch on July 21. But banks, payday lenders, and the GOP have joined forces to try to gut it first. Ari BermanThe NationJune 2, 2011
InvestigationPolitics How Workers Learned to Fear Unions in Wisconsin During the 2010 elections, WSJ editorial board member Stephen Moore carried the Koch agenda to Wisconsin workers — in workplace seminars called by their bosses. Adele M StanAlterNetJune 2, 2011
InvestigationEnvironment, World Feast and Famine India is growing, but Indians are still starving: 43 percent of children under the age of five are malnourished. Will a new drive toward modernization make a difference? Siddhartha DebThe Boston ReviewMay 31, 2011
InvestigationBusiness How Safe Are Your Savings: A White Paper How high-risk derivative products are being aggressively marketed to seniors as “safe and secure” — imperiling their retirement security. John WasikDemosMay 17, 2011