InvestigationPolitics The Children Left Behind What happened to the students pushed out by high-stakes testing? Debbie NathanIn These TimesOctober 28, 2013
InvestigationBusiness, Politics Scholars for Sale Academics get paid by financial firms to testify against Dodd-Frank regulations. But do they kiss and tell? Lee FangThe NationOctober 24, 2013
InvestigationBusiness, Environment Sewage Waste Lands Biosolid fertilizer comes cheap, but it may be putting farming communities at risk. Aaron Lake SmithAl Jazeera AmericaOctober 23, 2013
InvestigationBusiness Miami: Where Luxury Real Estate Meets Dirty Money The buyers come from all over the globe, bearing cash and complicated pasts. Ken SilversteinThe NationOctober 3, 2013
InvestigationBusiness How Jose Pedro de Morais Jr. Came to Miami The former finance minister of a notoriously corrupt regime in Angola is living in high style. Ken SilversteinThe NationOctober 3, 2013
InvestigationPolitics The Great Charter Tryout Are New Orleans’s schools a model for the nation — or a cautionary tale? Andrea GaborNewsweekSeptember 20, 2013
InvestigationWorld Mass Casualty Attacks in the Afghan War A recounting of three horrific civilian massacres by coalition forces — and a probe of the inadequate safeguards put in place after the fact. Robert DreyfussThe NationSeptember 19, 2013
InvestigationWorld Blood Money Coalition forces in Afghanistan pay compensation to civilian victims and their survivors — but keep no comprehensive records, and the US military denies all responsibility. Nick TurseThe NationSeptember 19, 2013
InvestigationWorld Lethal Profiling of Afghan Men Despite rules of engagement to the contrary, targeting of military-age males pervades the entire chain of command — up to the Oval Office. Nick TurseThe NationSeptember 19, 2013
InvestigationWorld How the US Fueled the Taliban Insurgency Gen. Stanley McChrystal put it best: “Because of civilian casualties, I think we have just about eroded our credibility here.” Robert DreyfussThe NationSeptember 19, 2013