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Racial Justice
Examining Race and Racism in America
- Tribal Leaders Warned Border Wall Construction Would Disturb Native American Remains. They Were Right.
- In a Newly Drawn District, Black Voters May Get a Representative Who Spent Years Undermining Their Interests
- Judge Denies Efforts to End Oversight of Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office as Racial Profiling of Latinos Persists
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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
Civil Rights
- At 17, He Was Tear-Gassed at Selma. At 78, He’s Watching Kids Tear-Gassed During Trump’s Deportation Campaign.
- She Was in Labor at a Florida Hospital. Then She Was in Zoom Court for Refusing a C-Section.
- A Mississippi Synagogue Was Attacked in 1967 and 2026. The Antisemitic Rhetoric Looked the Same Then and Now.
Climate and Environment
Documenting the Causes of a Planetary Crisis
Courts
An Eye on the American Judicial System
- “Devoid of Any Factual Basis”: Again and Again, Judges Have Dismissed Trump’s Voter Data Lawsuits
- Frustrated by Losses in the Courts, Missouri Republicans Want to Change How Top Judges Are Selected
- He Waited Nine Years in Prison for His Lawyer to File a Single Brief. In This State, There’s No Rule Against It.
Criminal Justice
Accountability in Crime and Law
Debt
What Americans Owe and Why
- “A Slap in the Face”: Trump’s DOJ Plans to Settle Predatory Lending Case Without Compensating Victims
- New Portland Trail Blazers Owner Played Key Role at Company Oregon Accused of Predatory Lending
- These Health Centers Are Supposed to Make Care Affordable. One Has Sued Patients for as Little as $59 in Unpaid Bills.
DOGE
How Elon Musk and His Associates Are Remaking the Federal Bureaucracy
Health Care
Pulling Back the Curtain on the Health Industry and Regulation
- Bird Flu Is Raging on a Mink Farm. It Could Spark a Human Pandemic, Experts Say, but Officials Won’t Act.
- Nuclear Weapons Waste Made Workers Sick. Despite a Law Meant to Help, the DOE Keeps Fighting Their Claims.
- Ken Paxton’s Anti-Abortion Influence Already Extended Beyond Texas. He Could Take It Further in the Senate.
Immigration
How Policy Impacts Migrants
Labor
What Work Is Like in the U.S.
- How the Government’s Obligation to Keep Foreign Workers Safe Collided With Its Efforts to Keep Farms Afloat
- My Maddening Quest to Find Out if Blueberries Come From Farms Where Workers Were Harmed
- Nike Wants Factory Workers to Earn a Decent Living. In Indonesia, It’s Moved Into Areas Where Workers Don’t.
Prison
- He Waited Nine Years in Prison for His Lawyer to File a Single Brief. In This State, There’s No Rule Against It.
- I’ve Covered Death Row Cases for Nearly a Decade. What Happened to Christa Pike Wasn’t an Anomaly.
- I Wrote About His Wrongful Conviction. He Got Only 13 Years of Freedom Before Cancer Took His Life.
Regulation
The Efforts to Keep Industry in Check
Technology
How Big Tech Impacts Our Lives
- Cybersecurity CEO Indicted for Allegedly Scamming Millions From Ransomware Victims
- Club Med, a Disney Cruise and an Exploding Starship: SpaceX Used Bystander Videos to Track Falling Debris
- Anthropic’s New AI Model Can Identify More Software Bugs Than Ever. Microsoft Is Struggling to Fix Them Fast Enough.
Trump Administration
The President and His Administration
