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The Trump Team Has a Plan to Not Fight Climate Change

It may take decades to see the worst effects of global warming. Yet Jim Reilly, the director of the US Geological Survey, is committed to short-term thinking.

Adam Federman
September 15, 2020 | Wired

What Will It Take for the Atlanta Police Department to Change the Way It Polices Itself?

Our investigation of thousands of pages of internal-affairs documents raises questions about reform at the beleaguered department.

Sonam Vashi |
September 18, 2020 | Atlanta

COVID-19: Inside the Crisis

Read all of Type Investigations’ coverage of the coronavirus pandemic.

Confinement and Contagion

The coronavirus has made those in women’s prisons still more vulnerable.

Justine van der Leun |
September 17, 2020 | The New York Review of Books COVID-19: Inside the Crisis

Chicago Has Been Quietly Intercepting Millions From State Tax Refunds During the Pandemic

The Lighfoot administration intercepted at least $27 million in 2020 from residents’ state tax refunds to collect on debt, disproportionately hitting lower income neighborhoods and communities of color.

Simon Davis-Cohen
September 15, 2020 | The Chicago Reporter COVID-19: Inside the Crisis

The Immokalee Way: Protecting Farmworkers Amid a Pandemic

While some companies do everything to escape accountability, the Fair Food Program proves there’s an alternative.

John Bowe
September 14, 2020 | The Nation COVID-19: Inside the Crisis

Trump’s National Labor Relations Board Is Sabotaging Its Own Mission

The federal agency that’s supposed to protect union rights is instead championing the interests of bosses.

Michelle Chen
September 7, 2020 | The Nation

The Fintech Debt Trap

Aggressive online lenders are preying on desperate borrowers and could trigger a new consumer financial crisis.

Alyssa Katz
August 30, 2020 | The Intercept

Trump Comes Up Empty When Pressed for Evidence of Election Fraud in Court

The Trump campaign’s 524-page response to a discovery demand turned up precisely zero instances of mail-in vote fraud.

Richard Salame
August 20, 2020 | The Intercept

Fire Drill

This Black community can’t escape sugar industry pollution. Even their school district is in on it.

Gilda Di Carli
August 19, 2020 | Grist Ida B. Wells Fellowship

Monumental Lies: Update

Civil War-era myths are kept alive at Confederate monuments with stories of “benevolent slave owners” and enslaved people “contented with their lot.”

Brian Palmer & Seth Freed Wessler
August 15, 2020 | Reveal

Cold as ICE

How local sheriffs are driving Trump’s deportation agenda.

Seth Freed Wessler
August 10, 2020 | Mother Jones

The Man Determined to Deliver Trump’s Alaskan Oil Promise

A political appointee at the Department of Interior has played a key, and sometimes controversial, role in opening a pristine wildlife refuge to drilling.

Adam Federman
August 8, 2020 | Politico Magazine

The Defund Movement Aims to Change the Policing and Prosecution of Domestic Violence

Though domestic violence is often cited as a reason to maintain the carceral status quo, advocates say there are more humane—and effective—alternatives.

Jessica Pishko
July 28, 2020 | The Appeal

How a Trip to Prison Cost Kenneth Clark His Right to Be a Parent

Clark wanted desperately to be a father to his kids. But prison, along with a Clinton-era child welfare law, conspired to take them away from him—for good.

Sylvia A. Harvey
July 20, 2020 | The Nation

Neglected in Care

Long before the coronavirus devastated nursing homes, inadequate staffing in for-profit Texas facilities endangered residents, leading to injuries and deaths.

Elena Mejia Lutz
July 13, 2020 | The Texas Observer COVID-19: Inside the Crisis

Domestic Terror in the Age of Trump

A new database of domestic terror incidents shows attacks by far-right extremists have become far more lethal since Donald Trump became president.

David Neiwert
July 9, 2020 | Reveal

Prisoners Face ‘Undue Punishment’ as the IRS Claws Back Their Stimulus Checks

Legal experts say the IRS is illegally denying CARES Act payments to incarcerated people.

Jordan Michael Smith
July 8, 2020 | The Appeal COVID-19: Inside the Crisis

The Catholic Church Siphoned Away $30 Million Paid to Native People for Stolen Land

Free, government-funded schools were rarely built on reservations—meaning that for many Native families, Catholic mission schools were the only option.

Mary Annette Pember
July 7, 2020 | In These Times Ida B. Wells Fellowship

En Puerto Rico, Una Epidemia de Violencia Doméstica Se Esconde a Simple Vista

Luego del huracán María, el número de mujeres asesinadas por sus parejas se duplicó. Sobrevivientes dicen que la respuesta desacertada del gobierno ha puesto aún más vidas en peligro.

Andrea González-Ramírez
June 30, 2020 | GEN Ida B. Wells Fellowship

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