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

Farmworkers find their employers pocketed their Social Security payments — rendering them ineligible for benefits.

Why are Teach for America and a California billionaire investing in a tiny local election?

Once a bastion of good jobs, manufacturing has gone gaga for temps.

Green chiles are a hot commodity, but the fields are overgrown with wage theft.

What happened to the students pushed out by high-stakes testing?

For sexual harassers, undocumented farmworkers make the “perfect victims.”

Nebraska child welfare officials took Maria Luis’s kids, then US immigration officers sent her back to Guatemala. How deportation is tearing apart families.

A politically connected waste management company operates a radioactive waste dump in Texas that sits atop one of North America’s largest aquifers — a recipe for environmental disaster.

Whistleblowers and company documents reveal that global food-service provider Sodexo has taken hundreds of millions of dollars of kickbacks from suppliers.

Are the new wave of public school military academies a veiled attempt to recruit American youth to fight unpopular wars?

In this sidebar to her story on taser-related deaths, Talvi shows how Taser’s promotional materials demonstrate how to use this “less-than-lethal” weapon on nonviolent protesters.

There have been 200 Taser-related deaths from 2001 to 2006, leading critics to call for better training and evaluation in their use.

The “secular” Character Training Institute is a front for evangelist Bill Gothard’s reconstructionist Christian vision, trying to change America one school, one police force, one city at a time.