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Racial Justice
Examining Race and Racism in America
All Topics
Biden Administration
The 46th President and His Administration
- A Year of Empty Threats and a “Smokescreen” Policy: How the State Department Let Israel Get Away With Horrors in Gaza
- The Biden Administration Is Separating Families at the Border. It Doesn’t Always Say Why.
- Microsoft’s “Free” Plan to Upgrade Government Cybersecurity Was Designed to Box Out Competitors and Drive Profits, Insiders Say
- Help Us Report on How the Department of Education Is Handling Civil Rights Cases
- “They Don’t Care About Civil Rights”: Trump’s Shuttering of DHS Oversight Arm Freezes 600 Cases, Imperils Human Rights
- New Mexico AG to Investigate Gallup-McKinley School District for Harsh Discipline of Native American Students
Courts
An Eye on the American Judicial System
Criminal Justice
Accountability in Crime and Law
- Columbia Will Pay Survivors of Abusive Doctor $750 Million After ProPublica Revealed University’s Failures
- Louisiana Judge Nullifies Death Row Inmate’s Murder Conviction That Was Based on Junk Science
- An Algorithm Deemed This Nearly Blind 70-Year-Old Prisoner a “Moderate Risk.” Now He’s No Longer Eligible for Parole.
Debt
What Americans Owe and Why
Democracy
Inside Voting in America
- N.C. Lawmakers Move to Stop Votes From Being Discarded Based on Postelection Rule Changes
- They Followed North Carolina Election Rules When They Cast Their Ballots. Now Their Votes Could Be Tossed Anyway.
- North Carolina Supreme Court Candidate Wants Military Absentee Votes Tossed. Years Earlier, That’s How He Voted.
DOGE
How Elon Musk and His Associates Are Remaking the Federal Bureaucracy
- Musk Adviser May Make as Much as $1 Million a Year While Helping to Dismantle Agency that Regulates Tesla and X
- The Department of Education Forced Idaho to Stop Denying Disabled Students an Education. Then Trump Gutted Its Staff.
- Trump’s NIH Axed Research Grants Even After a Judge Blocked the Cuts, Internal Records Show
Education
Inside Our Schools
- The Department of Education Forced Idaho to Stop Denying Disabled Students an Education. Then Trump Gutted Its Staff.
- Help Us Report on How the Department of Education Is Handling Civil Rights Cases
- A Gutted Education Department’s New Agenda: Roll Back Civil Rights Cases, Target Transgender Students
Environment
The Tension Between Humans and Nature
- Higher Prices, Rolling Blackouts: The Northwest Is Bracing for the Effects of a Lagging Green Energy Push
- Liberal Oregon and Washington Vowed to Pioneer Green Energy. Almost Every Other State Is Beating Them.
- Millions of People Depend on the Great Lakes’ Water Supply. Trump Decimated the Lab Protecting It.
Health Care
Pulling Back the Curtain on the Health Industry and Regulation
Immigration
How Policy Impacts Migrants
- An Agency Tasked With Protecting Immigrant Children Is Becoming an Enforcement Arm, Current and Former Staffers Say
- ICE Air Has a New Contractor. This State Is Asking How It Will Protect the Detainees on Board.
- ICE Awarded a $3.8 Billion Contract to Hold Immigrants on a Military Base. Days Later, It Was Canceled.
Labor
What Work Is Like in the U.S.
Military
Accountability for the Armed Forces
- Have You Been Affected by Changes at the Department of Veterans Affairs? Tell Us About It.
- A Defense Department Directive to Expand Access to Military Courts Falls Short of Federal Law’s Requirements
- This Icebreaker Has Design Problems and a History of Failure. It’s America’s Latest Military Vessel.
Politics
Holding Political Actors Accountable
- Texas Lawmakers Are Again Pushing to Spend Millions on Kits to Find Missing Kids. Experts Say They Don’t Work.
- The Untold Story of How Ed Martin Ghostwrote Online Attacks Against a Judge — and Still Became a Top Trump Prosecutor
- North Carolina Lawmakers Ask for Investigation Into Funding Disruptions for Sexual Abuse Survivors
- An Algorithm Deemed This Nearly Blind 70-Year-Old Prisoner a “Moderate Risk.” Now He’s No Longer Eligible for Parole.
- Is a New Mississippi Law Decreasing Jailings of People Awaiting Mental Health Treatment? The State Doesn’t Know.
- “Everyone Will Die in Prison”: How Louisiana’s Plan to Lock People Up Longer Imperils Its Sickest Inmates
Regulation
The Efforts to Keep Industry in Check
Technology
How Big Tech Impacts Our Lives
- White Supremacist Terrorgram Network Allegedly Inspired Teen Accused of Killing Parents and Plotting Trump Assassination
- Microsoft Hooked the Government on Its Products With Freebies. Could Elon Musk’s Starlink Be Doing the Same?
- A “Goofy” DJ’s Secret Life at the Center of an Online Terrorism Network
Trump Administration
The 45th and 47th President and His Administration
- U.S. AG Pam Bondi Sold More than $1 Million in Trump Media Stock the Day Trump Announced Sweeping Tariffs
- Musk Adviser May Make as Much as $1 Million a Year While Helping to Dismantle Agency that Regulates Tesla and X
- An Agency Tasked With Protecting Immigrant Children Is Becoming an Enforcement Arm, Current and Former Staffers Say
USAID
Inside the Destruction of the Aid Agency
- Tổng thống Trump đã dừng hoạt động xử lý chất độc da cam. Việc làm này khiến cho hàng trăm nghìn người gặp nguy cơ bị nhiễm độc.
- Trump Halted an Agent Orange Cleanup. That Puts Hundreds of Thousands at Risk for Poisoning.
- Internal Memos: Senior USAID Leaders Warned Trump Appointees of Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths From Closing Agency
