InvestigationHealth, Labor Long Hours, Low Pay, Loneliness, and a Booming Industry The ranks of home health aides are expected to grow more than any other job in the next decade. What kind of work are they being asked to do? Liz Donovan & Muriel AlarcónColumbia Journalism Investigations, The New York TimesSeptember 25, 2021
InvestigationBusiness, Justice Police Are Giving Amazon Ring Cameras to Survivors of Domestic Violence. Is It Helping? Advocates for survivors say the approach could end up doing more harm than good. Eileen GuoMIT Technology Review, Consumer ReportsSeptember 20, 2021
InvestigationPolitics How Does Don Jr. Roll? Donald Trump Jr. teases about a political future. But what do we really know about him? In Charleston County, South Carolina, they know more than most. Joe RubinNew RepublicSeptember 17, 2021
InvestigationEnvironment, Politics How Joe Biden’s Green Agenda Threatens the Alaskan Wilderness Donald Trump wanted to put a road through one of the most remote parts of North America. His successor could finish the job. Adam FedermanPolitico MagazineSeptember 17, 2021
InvestigationImmigration, Justice Secretive CBP Counterterrorism Teams Interrogated Over 180,000 U.S. Citizens Over Two-Year Period Records from an ongoing FOIA lawsuit shed new light on the operations of CBP’s Tactical Terrorism Response Teams. Melissa del BosqueThe InterceptSeptember 7, 2021
InvestigationEnvironment, Politics Joe Manchin’s Dirty Empire The West Virginia senator reaps big financial rewards from a network of coal companies with grim records of pollution, safety violations, and death. Daniel BoguslawThe InterceptSeptember 3, 2021
InvestigationJustice Biden is Expanding Trump’s War on “Domestic Violent Extremism” — and It’s Sweeping Up Black People Far from breaking with Trump’s civil disorder prosecutions, Biden has doubled down with an expansive view of extremism. Aaron Miguel CantúThe InterceptAugust 18, 2021
InvestigationBusiness, Immigration, Labor The Incalculable Cost of Cheap Chicken—and the Hidden Industry That Shoulders It Poultry plants, many of which rely on immigrant labor, already had high rates of occupational illness. Then the pandemic made everything worse. Tina VasquezScalawagJuly 20, 2021
InvestigationJustice, World The AFRICOM Files Pentagon undercounts and ignores military sexual assault in Africa. Nick TurseThe InterceptJuly 6, 2021
InvestigationJustice Inside Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity In “The Turning: The Sisters Who Left,” former nuns raise allegations that they were sexually abused by their mistresses — the nuns in charge of their spiritual formation and day to day life. Kathryn JoyceRococo Punch, iHeartMediaJune 29, 2021