InvestigationBusiness How Safe Are Your Savings? Your broker may peddle them as “low-risk” investments. But many structured products are so risky they could destroy your life savings. Welcome to the no-regulation zone. John WasikAARP MagazineMarch 3, 2011
InvestigationJustice How We Train Our Cops to Fear Islam There aren’t nearly enough counterterrorism experts to instruct all of America’s police. So we got these guys instead. Meg Stalcup & Joshua CrazeWashington MonthlyMarch 2, 2011
InvestigationEnvironment Firm Pays Government to Challenge Pesticide Research A private company responsible for conducting research on pesticides has paid a US government agency to prove that some chemicals in question are in fact safe. Sheila KaplanPolitics DailyMarch 1, 2011
InvestigationJustice How To Stop Suicide by Cop Some say many of the 400 people killed by cops each year wanted to die. But is “suicide by cop” just a way to avoid police accountability? Julia DahlMiller-McCuneFebruary 24, 2011
InvestigationPolitics, World Teodorin’s World Playboy bunnies. $2 million Bugattis. Bags full of cash. Meet the world’s richest minister of agriculture and forestry. Ken SilversteinForeign PolicyFebruary 22, 2011
InvestigationPolitics How Bloomberg Does Business How Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Bloomberg LP helped fix the NBC-Comcast merger — and protect Bloomberg’s media empire. Aram RostonThe NationFebruary 11, 2011
InvestigationJustice Tiny Little Laws A plague of sexual violence persists in Indian Country — while law enforcement turns a blind eye. Kathy DobieHarper'sJanuary 19, 2011
InvestigationWorld The Will to Resist Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan Dahr JamailHaymarket BooksJanuary 12, 2011
InvestigationEnvironment Drugs in the System There are half a million foster kids in the U.S. and they’re prescribed antipsychotics nine times more often than their counterparts. Does this unregulated system financially reward overmedication? Sarah Fitzpatrick & Mar CabraNeed to KnowJanuary 7, 2011
InvestigationJustice, Politics Military Sexual Abuse ‘Staggering’ Despite a “zero-tolerance” policy, rapes in the military are on the rise — and evidence shows that officials go to great lengths to protect the perpetrators. Part 2 of a 2-part series. Read part 1 here. Dahr JamailAl JazeeraDecember 23, 2010