InvestigationEnvironment, World Toxic Sand: Another Enemy in Afghanistan? US forces in Afghanistan may be facing another enemy: toxic sand. A new Navy study has found returning soldiers have memory loss and difficulty concentrating, which can’t be attributed to brain injuries. Sheila KaplanPolitics DailyJune 25, 2010
InvestigationWorld US Hikers Were Seized in Iraq Two independent eyewitnesses say Iranian forces crossed the border into Iraq to arrest the three Americans last July. Then a rogue officer took over custody. Babak SarfarazThe NationJune 24, 2010
InvestigationWorld None of Us Were Like This Before American Soldiers and Torture Joshua E. S. PhillipsVerso BooksJune 24, 2010
AnalysisPolitics A Backstory We Like Most everyone has probably read freelance reporter Michael Hastings’ high-impact profile in Rolling Stone of the (now former) top commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal. Jayati VoraJune 24, 2010
InvestigationWorld Who Killed Roque Dalton? Former Salvadoran revolutionary Joaquin Villalobos has remade himself as an author, commentator and Oxford scholar. But questions remain about his role in the death of the bard of the Latin American left. Ben EhrenreichLondon Review of BooksJune 22, 2010
ImpactJournalism Dean Starkman wins Mirror Award Congratulations to Dean Starkman, whose Investigative Fund-supported cover story in the Columbia Journalism Review, has won the Mirror Award… Jayati VoraJune 22, 2010
InvestigationWorld Congressional Investigation Confirms: US Funds Afghan Warlords The congressional report was sparked by an Investigative Fund/Nation magazine probe. Aram RostonThe NationJune 21, 2010
InvestigationJustice Maciel’s Son Details Abuse Raul Gonzalez, son of the late Marciel Maciel Degollado, founder of the Legionaries of Christ, reveals that his father sexually abused him — and charges that the Catholic order facilitated the abuse. Jason BerryNational Catholic ReporterJune 20, 2010
NewsEnvironment, Health Frisco on the Verge of Signing Law to Post Cell Phone Radiation San Francisco will be the first city in the nation to pass a law requiring that retailers post the “specific absorption rate” or SAR of each cell phone they are selling, the LA Times… Jayati VoraJune 18, 2010
NewsBusiness, Environment Despite BP’s History, Obama Administration Let it Get Away With Murder Tim Dickinson has a meaty investigative piece in Rolling Stone about the regulatory failure at the MMS under President Obama. Despite knowing that the agency was riddled with corruption… Jayati VoraJune 15, 2010