The Marshals Service has failed to make sure its detainees are held in safe conditions—even after hundreds of people have died on its watch.

They’re supposed to safeguard pretrial detainees. But America’s oldest law enforcement agency is suffering from a massive dereliction of duty.

President Trump plans to make the poor work for Medicaid and food stamps. That’s highly lucrative for companies like Maximus.

Despite legal concerns, the Trump administration is pushing ahead.

When big oil companies want to monitor activists, they turn to Welund.

Another controversy hits the Interior Department.

And how American universities are acting as willing partners.

The billionaire creator of the Power Rangers has invested millions in Hillary Clinton. So what does he want?

The full story of his connection with far-right extremists.

The Republican nominee for president has not disavowed any of them.

Will they help win over voters?

The Trump campaign has made common cause with ethno-nationalist political parties across the Atlantic.

Breitbart News, boasts Donald Trump’s new campaign chief, is “the platform for the alt-right”

A subprime boom, insane interest rates, predatory lending, a private-equity frenzy. Sound familiar?

Starbucks says it’s solving the world’s water problems — yet it’s profiting off California’s dwindling reserves.

Five years ago, BP dumped nearly 2 million gallons of Corexit into the Gulf of Mexico.

4-H claims its Africa program benefits kids — but is it also creating a market for genetically modified corn?

Lobbyists, guns, and money: inside the shadowy — and very well-connected — bail bonds industry.

To the booming for-profit college industry, low-income students are a treasure trove of federal subsidies, grants, and high-interest loans — all for degrees that fizzle in the job market.

With big profits on the line, the drug industry is pulling out campaign-style dirty tricks to keep selling the meds that cooks turn into crank.

Prisons are nasty places by design, but these 10 stand out as the most brutal and horrific places to do time.

Teen shortstop Yewri Guillén died the day the Nationals were supposed to ship him to America. Has Major League Baseball learned from the tragedy?

Some human rights groups now call solitary confinement “torture.” Yet the State of California throws thousands of men into solitary for little more than the books they read and the company they keep.

Despite piles of research suggesting that Roundup is dangerous, the Big Apple douses its parks with the stuff.

Did the insider deal violate Romney’s own Salt Lake ethics rules?

What happens when outside agitators work with state politicians to pass the nation’s most draconian anti-immigrant law yet? The Cotton State learned the hard way.

Alabama’s new anti-immigration bill, HB 56, is the most draconian in the nation. And it’s already adversely affecting the local economy.

Can rich nations pay a corruption-riddled government to protect its rainforests? A close look at a new UN program to reduce deforestation around the globe.

The policies of Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona, infamous for his zeal against undocumented immigrants, may soon go statewide. The story of one immigrant, who died soon after being deported to Mexico, may serve as a warning sign of the brutality ahead.

Would you like some deforestation with your organic sugar? Federal organic standards have no problem with that.

Enticed by unscrupulous recruiters, saddled with thousands of dollars of debt, and working in exploitive, often abusive conditions, guest workers in the United States are legal — but vulnerable to a modern form of indentured servitude.

An inside look at Burma’s brutal war on its Karen minority through the eyes of the exile activists who risk their lives to document its worst atrocities.

What does global warming look like in the tiny frozen town of Eagle, Alaska, nearly lost to massive floods?

A close look behind the cool image of Fiji Water, a celebrated symbol of purity that depends for its profits on environmental plunder and a military dictatorship. Plus a special animated video.

How American commanders have used Iraq’s Awakening Councils to pay millions of dollars in thinly disguised bribes to Sunni sheikhs.

In pursuit of alleged terrorists, abuse of secrecy and detention rules by federal prosecutors has compromised basic principles of American justice.

How small-time businessman Shlomi Michaels became a key middleman in Washington’s covert foreign policy machine.

Where are families evacuated after Hurricane Katrina supposed to go once FEMA kicks them out of government trailer parks?

A reformed Wall Streeter explains where Congress went wrong on lending.

A field guide to the loan sharks and politicos who got us into the predatory lending mess, from 1913 to 2008

As Freedom’s Watch mounts a campaign to defend the war on Iraq, some conservatives are grumbling about the group – and its wealthy backer, Sheldon Adelson.

Internal documents show OSHA detected dangerous levels of formaldehyde in trailers used to house Katrina evacuees as early as 2005 but FEMA distributed them anyway.

In Indonesia, subsidies for biofuel crops have led to the illegal seizure of tribal lands and the destruction of pristine old growth forest.

Major policy shifts are afoot as Washington hawks warn Israeli policymakers that they could be on their own on Iran.