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I.F. Stone Award

The I.F. Stone Award honored Stone’s legacy of tireless investigations into issues of vital national interest by creating a pathway for emerging reporters to produce their first journalistic investigations. This is what they produced.

Investigations

Merchants of Meth

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.

The Woman Who Took on the DC Police

Arrested and placed in a male cellblock, Patti Hammond Shaw faced violence and discrimination. Now she's changing how police treat transgender people.

The Devil Underground

Guns, gold, and blowback from the failed drug war in Colombia.

River of Death

Factories, many of them US-owned, are dumping toxic chemicals into one of Mexico's main waterways.

Nike Says It Empowers Women Around the World

But the young women who make its products in Vietnam are intimidated, belittled, and underpaid.

Contract Selling Is Back in Chicago

Fifty years after Martin Luther King Jr. fought against predatory sales, Wall Street-backed firms are duping would-be homebuyers again.