Category: investigations

A headline-grabbing murder-for-hire plot helped expose the dark side of exotic animal ownership in the U.S. Is there now enough momentum to reform the industry?

“Ten Navy sailors were killed and scores more were injured. It was the Navy’s worst accident at sea in 40 years.” And it was all avoidable.

We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in investigative reporting.

Cody Dalton Eyre, a 20-year-old Alaskan Native, was having a mental health crisis on Christmas Eve, 2017 when his mother called 911 for help. So why did police officers end up shooting and killing him?

“When you lay down to go to sleep, you better be prayed up, because there’s no guarantee you’re waking up.”

Boeing’s failings with the 737 MAX reveal a dangerous deviation from its engineering-first culture that used to put the safety of the flying public before profit.

Oh by the way, Airbnb makes money on cancellations, too.

When a hospice takes a man off life support in a case of mistaken identity, who is responsible?

When troopers finally do arrive, violent offenders just hide until they leave.

From global capital to YouTube, carbon credits to indigenous land defenders in their own words, Will Meyer has compiled a reading list on who lit the match and how the fire might be stopped.

The Kingdom of Heaven, borne out of blood

If America collapses, some see that as an opportunity to reboot society. They say they have God on their side.

The story was that a radical man set off a bomb in the desert. But what about everything else that happened?

When a bomb exploded in a tiny desert town, there was no doubt who did it. But no one could understand why.

‘Everything that Manson did with his women was exactly what the CIA was trying to do with people without their knowledge, in the exact same time, at the exact same place.’

Donald Cline justified his deception with choice bible verses, so that makes everything okay.

“Nathan quickly learned that counselors preferred to bash boys’ heads into the door of the refrigerator at the back of Lincoln Hall, hearing the distinct thud and his classmates’ screams from the next room over.”

Journalist Evan Ratliff has uncovered the shocking reach of Paul Le Roux’s criminal enterprise — a global network of pawns, most of whom were unaware of the full extent of the empire.

Personal assistant? Start-up founder? Professional long-lost sister? No, Southern Baptist pastor.

“Thieves and forgers are taking houses from the deceased in ‘hot’ (Philadelphia) neighborhoods — as the city stands by.”

John and his mother Ann, who live in a house in Pretoria, South Africa, were two victims of faulty IP address mapping — and the U.S. government played a big role in the mess.

As AAPI’s become a more powerful, Democrat-leaning voting bloc, efforts to keep them from the polls intensify.

We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in investigative reporting. Lindsay Gellman Senior Researcher for investigative journalist Ronan Farrow Why America’s Black Mothers and Babies Are in a Life-or-Death Crisis (Linda Villarosa, The New York Times) Villarosa’s unflinching examination of […]

Even if one of the last surviving Tolstoyan communes has fallen short of Leo Tolstoy’s ideals, it’s still turned into something meaningful. It’s a place for people who don’t want to be found.

Pamela Colloff took the same 40-hour course that is the sum total of the training many blood spatter experts claim… and it did not inspire confidence in the reliability of this particular forensic “science.”

Workers at Momentive Performance Materials had given their lives to the chemical plant. The strike was supposed to save what little they had left.

This is the story of the last day of 17-year-old Quanice Hayes’s life. It involves a police department that says they have no good way of deciphering between real guns and fake ones, and a family still searching for answers.

After taking over from George Plimpton, Brigid Hughes was pushed out as the editor of The Paris Review and omitted from the magazine’s history.

Investigations into sexual misconduct perpetrated by powerful men across several industries had the biggest impact in 2017.

Londoner Tom Lamont spent months reporting for this GQ piece on the ins, outs, and aftermath of the Grenfell Tower disaster.