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The New Cold War Comes to Kodiak

Adam Federman — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 08:30:00 +0000

This story was produced in partnership with Grist and was supported by the Pulitzer Center. Last August, Christine Burton got an unexpected call from her sister, an employee at the Pacific Spaceport Complex in Kodiak, Alaska. The state-owned facility was about to conduct an unannounced test launch of what was likely a hypersonic missile and […]

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An Illinois Sheriff Faces No Serious Competition. His Employees Poured $71,000 Into His Campaign.

Max Blaisdell — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000

This story was produced as part of the Springboard Project. Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart raked in tens of thousands of dollars in campaign cash from more than 100 of his own employees despite facing little competition in his reelection campaign, according to an analysis by South Side Weekly and Type Investigations. Almost all of that […]

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When Phone Calls Are Shut Off for Prisoners

Katie Rose Quandt — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 13:00:00 +0000

This article was produced in partnership with In These Times. When Mallory Tice’s husband, Ian, was booked into Baxter County Jail in December 2025, their three children missed him terribly. Any time the phone rang, their three-year-old son would ask if it was Dad. But it never was. Ian was left isolated from his family […]

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Springboard Project

Paco Alvarez — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:52:45 +0000

The Springboard Project launched in 2023 to help local newsrooms and publications serving historically marginalized communities publish complex investigations and develop the resources to produce investigative work for years to come. Applications for Type Investigations’s Springboard Project are now open.

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The Backstory: Katia Savchuk

Paco Alvarez — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 11:00:00 +0000

Paco Alvarez: Just to get us started, what inspired your investigation? Katia Savchuk: So I had coffee with Amanda Silverman, who’s an editor at MIT Tech Review, and she had seen a headline in the New York Times that was just a brief news story about this pastor who had claimed that God told him […]

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God told them to sell crypto. Their investors lost everything.

Katia Savchuk — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000

This article was produced in partnership with MIT Technology Review and with support from the Fund for Investigative Journalism. When Eli Regalado first heard God speak to him, he wondered whether he was hallucinating. Now he likens the experience to having “a thought that is not my thought.” Divine words echo in his mind like […]

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America’s 911 System Is Facing Its Own Emergency

Byard Duncan — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 19:57:31 +0000

On July 4, 2023, Caitlin Ditta had just finished hosting a barbecue with her husband and baby daughter when she felt a strange sensation. Ditta, a 33-year-old school therapist living in Oakland, California, had suffered a hemorrhage after giving birth in the hospital a few weeks earlier. She recovered quickly, but the doctors issued a stark […]

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How ideas of a vast censorship network moved from the online fringe to Trump policy

Eileen Guo — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:01:21 +0000

This article was produced in partnership with MIT Technology Review, with support from the Wayne Barrett Project. One morning in April 2025, employees of a small office in the US State Department got the email many of them had been dreading. For months, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency had been cutting a wide swath […]

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‘Gag order’: More than 100 Louisiana state employees signed NDAs with Gov. Landry’s office

Drew Hawkins — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000

This story was produced as part of the Springboard Project. Like any executive, whenever Gov. Jeff Landry makes a decision, reviews legislation, weighs a policy proposal, or schedules a meeting with a company his administration hopes to convince to set up shop in Louisiana, there’s a team of people behind him. Chiefs of staff advise and […]

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The Backstory: Byard Duncan

Paco Alvarez — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0000

Paco Alvarez: So my first question is, how did you get your start in investigative journalism? Byard Duncan: Back in 2015, I joined Reveal as their community manager. So my first role there was managing their social, doing a little bit of engagement reporting work and handling newsletters, things like that. And even though I […]

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