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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
Courts
An Eye on the American Judicial System
Criminal Justice
Accountability in Crime and Law
Debt
What Americans Owe and Why
Democracy
Inside Voting in America
- Democrats Won a North Carolina Supreme Court Seat. But They Lost Control Over the Board That Sets Election Rules.
- 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.
DOGE
How Elon Musk and His Associates Are Remaking the Federal Bureaucracy
Education
Inside Our Schools
- Tennessee’s Law on School Threats Ensnared Students Who Posed No Risks. Two States Passed Similar Laws.
- Trump Wants to Cut Tribal College Funding by Nearly 90%, Putting Them at Risk of Closing
- A Tennessee School Agreed to Pay $100,000 to Family of 11-Year-Old Student Arrested Under School Threats Law
Environment
The Tension Between Humans and Nature
- EPA Drops Legal Case Against the GEO Group, a Major Trump Donor, Over Its Misuse of Harmful Disinfectant in an ICE Facility
- Newtok, Alaska, Was Supposed to Be a Model for Climate Relocation. Here’s How It Went Wrong.
- Prescient Warnings About Helene Didn’t Reach People in Harm’s Way. Here Are 5 Lessons for the Next Hurricane.
Health Care
Pulling Back the Curtain on the Health Industry and Regulation
- He Died Without Getting Mental Health Care He Sought. A New Lawsuit Says His Insurer’s Ghost Network Is to Blame.
- He Became the Face of Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirement. Now He’s Fed Up With It.
- The Firm Running Georgia’s Struggling Medicaid Experiment Was Also Paid Millions to Sell It to the Public
- He Died Without Getting Mental Health Care He Sought. A New Lawsuit Says His Insurer’s Ghost Network Is to Blame.
- He Became the Face of Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirement. Now He’s Fed Up With It.
- The Firm Running Georgia’s Struggling Medicaid Experiment Was Also Paid Millions to Sell It to the Public
Immigration
How Policy Impacts Migrants
Labor
What Work Is Like in the U.S.
- Texas Talks Tough on Immigration. But Lawmakers Won’t Force Most Private Companies to Check Employment Authorization.
- In Cambodia, Our Journalists Put Nike’s Claims About Factory Conditions to the Test
- Nike Repeatedly Raised Concerns About Repression in Cambodia. It Expanded Its Factory Workforce There Anyway.
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
- North Dakota Ethics Commission Has No Authority to Punish Officials Violating Ethics Laws, State Leaders Argue
- Texas Lawmakers Pull Funding for Child Identification Kits Again After Newsrooms Report They Don’t Work
- Red State Voters Approved Progressive Measures. GOP Lawmakers Are Trying to Undermine Them.
- 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
Trump Administration
The 45th and 47th President and His Administration
USAID
Inside the Destruction of the Aid Agency
- Death, Sexual Violence and Human Trafficking: Fallout From U.S. Aid Withdrawal Hits the World’s Most Fragile Locations
- 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.
