Series

Temp Land

Lost Wages, High Injury Rates, Few Benefits

Terror in Little Saigon

Tracking Unsolved Murders

The $3 Million Research Breakdown

University of Illinois at Chicago’s Troubling Study

The Bad Bet

How Illinois Bet on Video Gambling and Lost

The Breakdown

How politics and government really work, and why they don’t.

The Cutting

Investigating Industrial Logging in Oregon

The Drone War

The End of Aid

Trump Destroyed USAID. What Happens Now?

The Etan Patz Case

The disappearance of a 6-year-old New York boy has mystified and frustrated police for decades. The trial of his alleged killer ended with a hung jury, a dozen people who spent 18 days unsuccessfully trying to reach unanimity.

The Extortion Economy

U.S. Companies and Ransomware

The Failure Track

Alternative Schools and Accountability

The Great Climate Migration

A Warming Planet and a Shifting Population

The Hospice Hustle

How a Visionary Movement Became a Plaything for Profiteers

The Inside Edge

How the Rich and Well-Connected Exploit Investment Advantages

The Insurrection

The Effort to Overturn the Election

The Long Burn

The Slow Recovery From New Mexico’s Largest Wildfire

The Money Game

Tracking the Illinois Governor’s Race

The New Debtors Prisons

How companies are putting borrowers behind bars

The New Immigration

How Recent Arrivals at the Border Have Changed the Country and Its Attitudes

The New Power Brokers

West Virginia’s Natural Gas Industry