ImpactBusiness Students Demand Georgetown Cut Ties With Nike Students stormed the Office of the President after a monitoring agency reported persistent workers’ rights abuses at a Nike supplier’s factory in Vietnam. Maria HengeveldDecember 22, 2016
ImpactJustice, Politics Obama’s DOJ Says It One More Time: Private Prisons Aren’t Working Another audit is perhaps the final piece of official evidence countering Donald Trump’s belief in for-profit incarceration. Seth Freed WesslerDecember 21, 2016
ProjectHealth, Immigration, Justice Dying in Private Prisons The federal Bureau of Prisons repeatedly ignored its own watchdogs as dozens of immigrants died in the wake of medical neglect in segregated, privatized prisons. Seth Freed WesslerDecember 21, 2016
InvestigationJustice The Making of an American Terrorist Robert Dear shot up a Planned Parenthood clinic, killing three people. Did the right-wing media help turn a disturbed loner into a mass murderer? Amanda RobbNew RepublicDecember 19, 2016
ProjectLabor The Grind A year-long series on the myriad ways workers are being shortchanged, revealing the exploitative and dangerous labor conditions behind our holidays and rituals — from New Year’s resolutions to Christmas shopping. James Hannaham, Gabriel Thompson, Michelle Chen, Noy Thrupkaew, Maria Hengeveld & Hella WinstonDecember 15, 2016
InvestigationBusiness, Labor, World ‘We Are Nothing But Machines to Them’ Three years after a deadly collapse, Bangladesh's apparel factories have safer structures — and working conditions so oppressive they're killing people. Anjali KamatSlate MagazineDecember 15, 2016
InvestigationPolitics ‘Radically Mainstream’ Why the alt-right is celebrating Trump's win. Sarah PosnerRolling StoneDecember 1, 2016
ProjectPolitics The Alt Right A close look at the rising white nationalist movement and its ties to the Trump campaign and the Trump administration. Sarah Posner, David Neiwert & Josh HarkinsonDecember 1, 2016
InvestigationImmigration, Justice, Politics Donald Trump’s Looming Mass Criminalization The only way to quickly deport 3 million immigrants is to first make them into criminals — and he’ll have the tools to do so on day one. Seth Freed WesslerThe NationNovember 28, 2016
NewsJustice, Labor ‘Really it is a he-said she-said matter’ Trucking giant’s HR head testifies on systems for dealing with sexual harassment at the CRST. Mary PilonNovember 23, 2016