After decades of discriminating against Black farmers and ignoring their complaints, the USDA is promising to do better. Again.
Corporate Accountability
The Subprime Solar Trap for Low-Income Homeowners
Predatory deals from the financial crisis are back in time for the climate crisis.
A Former Trump Operative Used GiveSendGo to Push Claims of Election Fraud and Rake in Hundreds of Thousands
The Christian crowdfunding platform has been a friendly resource for Trumpworld.
I Tested My Tap Water, Household Products and Cat for Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’
The extent of PFAS contamination is only now coming into focus. Here’s what I learned from investigating my home.
Was Election Denial Just a Get-Rich-Quick Scheme? Donors’ Lawsuits Look for Answers
Widespread voter fraud is a fake problem, but some conservative donors say they’re getting scammed out of real money.
Payday Lenders Gave Trump Millions. Then He Helped Them Cash in on the Working Poor.
The investment in Trump has continued paying off during the pandemic.
The Risk Makers
Viral hate, election interference, and hacked accounts: inside the tech industry’s decades-long failure to reckon with risk.
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.
The Fintech Debt Trap
Aggressive online lenders are preying on desperate borrowers and could trigger a new consumer financial crisis.
They Were Warned Not to Take Sick Days — Then Six Workers at Their Warehouse Died of Coronavirus
The workers also expressed concerns that delays in the provision of personal protective equipment like masks and gloves made an outbreak inevitable.
Retail COVID-19 testing is a massive failure for black communities
Since the White House announced this “historic public-private partnership,” 63 sites have opened nationwide. Just eight are in black neighborhoods.
The Factory Oversight Industry Protects Profits, Not People
An investigation into the dangerously irresponsible business of “ethical factory” audits.
How Much Is an Unkosher Torah Worth?
Inside the murky world of Torah appraisal and a prominent evangelical’s gift to the Museum of the Bible of thousands of unusable scrolls.
As Coronavirus Spread, Financial Services Contractor Told Warehouse Workers They Aren’t Allowed to Get Sick
In a Long Island warehouse, immigrants work long hours doing mailings for a multibillion-dollar financial services company. Now they’re getting sick.
The stimulus halts a corporate trick that gouges workers. But it comes too late.
Stock buybacks enriched companies and their leaders — at everyone else’s expense.
‘This Is the Wild West Out Here’
How Washington is bending over backward for mining companies in Nevada at the expense of environmental rules.
‘Dump it down the drain’
How contaminants from prescription-drug factories pollute waterways.
Why Prisoners Get the Doctors No One Else Wants
Even after a major class action suit required Illinois to revamp its prison healthcare system, doctors whose alleged neglect resulted in major injury or death still remain on the prison system payroll.
Sexual Misconduct at Work, Again
The #MeToo movement is shedding renewed light on sexual harassment at work. The fight has a decades-long history.
Stark Lessons from Wall Street’s #MeToo Moment
On Wall Street, most men accused of sexual harassment continue to pursue their careers — even after paying large judgements.