InvestigationBusiness, Justice, Politics What the Bureau of Prisons Knew The US Department of Justice says it will reduce and eventually end its use of private prisons. Seth Freed WesslerRevealAugust 27, 2016
InvestigationBusiness, Labor, World Nike Says It Empowers Women Around the World But the young women who make its products in Vietnam are intimidated, belittled, and underpaid. Maria HengeveldSlate MagazineAugust 26, 2016
InvestigationPolitics How Trump Won Over Europe’s Far Right The Trump campaign has made common cause with ethno-nationalist political parties across the Atlantic. Josh HarkinsonMother JonesAugust 25, 2016
InvestigationPolitics How Stephen Bannon Created an Online Haven for White Nationalists Breitbart News, boasts Donald Trump’s new campaign chief, is “the platform for the alt-right” Sarah PosnerMother JonesAugust 22, 2016
ImpactJustice, Politics Justice Department to End All Federal Private Prisons The announcement was made following our yearlong probe uncovering dozens of questionable deaths and years of dire warnings from internal monitors. Seth Freed WesslerAugust 18, 2016
ImpactImmigration, Justice The Feds Will Shut Down a Troubled Private Prison The facility is among several in which our reporting has uncovered dozens of deaths that involved substandard medical care. Seth Freed WesslerAugust 15, 2016
InvestigationBusiness, Justice The Fear Industry My weekend of gun training in the desert. Patrick BlanchfieldThe NationAugust 10, 2016
InvestigationEnvironment How Septic Tanks May Imperil an Ecosystem In Florida, one of the nation’s largest waterways is in danger. Lisa Desai & Yasmeen QureshiPBS NewshourAugust 6, 2016
InvestigationBusiness, Environment Big Oil Takes Aim at Local Control of Fracking As much as local communities in Colorado may want to ban the process, their hands are tied. Simon Davis-CohenFusionAugust 3, 2016
AnalysisJustice, Labor Whistleblower Retaliation Alive and Well at Hanford Washington state’s attorney general and others filed an emergency motion to force the Department of Energy and a federal contractor to protect workers from toxic vapor exposure at the nuclear cleanup site. Joshua FrankAugust 3, 2016