InvestigationBusiness, Environment, Health Worse Than Lead? The chemical industry strikes again, shifting from lead to flame retardants that also sicken and kill. Jamie Lincoln KitmanThe NationAugust 15, 2018
InvestigationPolitics, World A Slaughter in Silence How a brutal ethnic cleansing campaign in DRC was made worse by Trump's "America First" policies and the world's neglect. Nick TurseViceAugust 1, 2018
InvestigationWorld The Survivors of Ituri’s Ethnic Cleansing Campaign Sometimes, the best thing a reporter can do is simply get out of the way and let people tell their own stories in their own words. Nick TurseViceAugust 1, 2018
InvestigationBusiness, Environment, Health 3M Knew About Dangers of Toxic Chemicals Decades Ago Internal studies and other documents show that 3M knew by the 1970s that PFOA and PFOS were toxic and accumulating in people's blood. Sharon LernerThe InterceptJuly 31, 2018
InvestigationBusiness, Environment, Health Are Cosmetics Used in YouTube Makeup Tutorials Safe? The FDA restricts or prohibits use of just 11 ingredients in cosmetics. The EU, by contrast, bans or restricts more than 1,000. Torey Van OotMicJuly 26, 2018
InvestigationImmigration, Justice For Some Migrant Families, a Second Separation Awaits Facing a legal labyrinth, deported parents may be forced to leave their children behind so that they can seek asylum. Renée FeltzThe NationJuly 11, 2018
InvestigationLabor, Politics This Conservative Group Worked 60 Years to Crush Labor Now, the Janus decision has helped push the National Right to Work Committee and its sister organizations closer to that goal. Moshe Z. MarvitThe NationJuly 5, 2018
InvestigationImmigration The Threat of Adoption for Separated Migrant Children Are the children separated from their parents in the border crisis and put in the federal government’s care at risk of international adoptions? Kathryn JoyceThe InterceptJuly 1, 2018
InvestigationJustice How Elite Charter Schools Exclude Minorities Loose laws let scores of charters create policies that favor white students. Emmanuel FeltonThe Hechinger Report, NBC NewsJune 17, 2018
InvestigationJustice, Politics South Carolina Sought Exemption for Faith-Based Agency Governor Henry McMaster personally intervened with the Department of Health and Human Services on behalf of Miracle Hill Ministries, a child placement agency. Sarah PosnerThe NationJune 15, 2018