InvestigationBusiness, Health, Politics Milked The United States has finally joined a global consensus about the health benefits of breast milk. So why does a federal agency with huge sway over infant nutrition still pay for most of the infant formula sold in the nation? Molly M. GintyWomensEnewsNovember 7, 2011
InvestigationBusiness, World Render Unto Rome An investigation of epic financial intrigue, Render Unto Rome exposes the secrecy and deceit that run counter to the values of the Catholic Church. Jason BerryRandom House, Inc.November 3, 2011
AnalysisJustice Police Raid on Occupy Oakland Nothing New Over 2,500 people have been arrested across the United States as the Occupy Wall Street movement has spread from its genesis in Lower Manhattan to over 1,000 American cities and municipalities… Ali WinstonOctober 28, 2011
InvestigationBusiness The Turnaround Men A $36 billion Ponzi scheme, a charismatic entrepreneur, an ex-con turned devout Christian, and the politicians — from Michelle Bachmann to Tim Pawlenty — who championed them. Mariah BlakeNew RepublicOctober 27, 2011
InvestigationWorld In the New Gangland of El Salvador Inside the Salvadoran gang las maras, run by former U.S. immigrants who started gangs in LA and — once deported — brought their violent ways back home. Alma GuillermoprietoThe New York Review of BooksOctober 24, 2011
AnalysisImmigration, World Letter from Oaxaca If there’s one experience that Mexicans have in common more than any other, more even than hatred and repudiation of the mutual violence of the narcos and the government, it’s migration. David BaconOctober 24, 2011
InvestigationWorld Angelina Jolie’s Legacy in Cambodia Did actress and humanitarian Angelina Jolie do business in Cambodia with a Khmer Rouge war criminal? Douglas GillisonGlobal PostOctober 24, 2011
AnalysisBusiness, Technology Facebook for the One Percent The homepage of LittleSis proclaims it the opposite of Big Brother, “a free database of who-knows-who at the heights of business and government.” Its creators call it an involuntary Facebook for powerful people… Erika EichelbergerOctober 21, 2011
InvestigationBusiness, Environment, Politics Hanford’s Nuclear Option Department of Energy scientists allege catastrophic mismanagement by Bechtel of the costliest environmental cleanup in world history. Joshua FrankSeattle WeeklyOctober 19, 2011
InvestigationEnvironment, Politics, World Bolivia’s March Against Evo Morales Bolivia’s president, Evo Morales, the country’s first indigenous head of state, faces a major challenge from his allies over plans to build a highway in the Amazon. Jean Friedman-RudovskyTimeOctober 17, 2011