Category: investigations

The journalism that made our jaws drop.

For 50 years, Enthusiastic Sobriety programs have offered to help teenagers kick drugs and alcohol. But former followers say ES doesn’t save lives—it destroys them.

Adolfo Davis hoped a Supreme Court ruling would give him a chance at a new beginning. But nothing about freedom turned out as he expected.

Two women gave birth on the same day in a place called Come By Chance. Half a century later, their children made a shocking discovery.

The story of a Somali family uprooted by war and separated by America’s broken refugee resettlement system — and the siblings who brought them back together.

At the start of the COVID-19 outbreak, cruise companies “went to great lengths to repatriate vacationers.” But for crew members, it was a different story.

Having trouble finding bucatini? You are not alone.

“Donated kidneys are a precious, limited resource, and once again, Black Americans are at a disadvantage.”

Our top picks for investigative journalism this year.

“Workers who worked Monday through Saturday without missing a day were given a bonus of $50, later raised to $100, which was accompanied by a box of meat valued at $200 to $300.”

Three asylum seekers navigate coronavirus and climate change at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Has the U.S. government already betrayed the activists seeking regime change in North Korea?

Gabriel Thompson takes us into San Francisco Immigration Court and the labyrinthine system that asylum seekers—and attorneys and judges—are up against.

How reporting domestic violence works against women in family court.

Discover a website that solves crimes without its members ever leaving home.

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.’