AnalysisPolitics Veterans Day Reads Just in time for Veterans Day, the Senate is preparing to endorse a bill that would provide tax credits of up to $9,600 for companies that hire disabled veterans. Angela AiutoNovember 11, 2011
NewsEnvironment, Health Burned Out Conclusions in scientific studies can often be discovered not at the end but between the proverbial lines of any given report. Certainly that is the case in the recent Institute of Medicine study, “Long-Term Health… J. Malcolm GarciaNovember 10, 2011
InvestigationHealth, World Transforming the Global Health Agenda Over the past 30 years, public funding for global health has dried up. Private companies have stepped into the breach, with troubling results. Sonia ShahForeign AffairsNovember 9, 2011
AnalysisBusiness, Justice Investigating “The Greatest Show on Earth” Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Deborah Nelson has a heartbreaking expose in the November/December 2011 issue of Mother Jones about ritual animal abuse, specifically… Jayati VoraNovember 8, 2011
InvestigationBusiness, Health, Politics Milked The United States has finally joined a global consensus about the health benefits of breast milk. So why does a federal agency with huge sway over infant nutrition still pay for most of the infant formula sold in the nation? Molly M. GintyWomensEnewsNovember 7, 2011
InvestigationBusiness, World Render Unto Rome An investigation of epic financial intrigue, Render Unto Rome exposes the secrecy and deceit that run counter to the values of the Catholic Church. Jason BerryRandom House, Inc.November 3, 2011
AnalysisJustice Police Raid on Occupy Oakland Nothing New Over 2,500 people have been arrested across the United States as the Occupy Wall Street movement has spread from its genesis in Lower Manhattan to over 1,000 American cities and municipalities… Ali WinstonOctober 28, 2011
InvestigationBusiness The Turnaround Men A $36 billion Ponzi scheme, a charismatic entrepreneur, an ex-con turned devout Christian, and the politicians — from Michelle Bachmann to Tim Pawlenty — who championed them. Mariah BlakeNew RepublicOctober 27, 2011
InvestigationWorld In the New Gangland of El Salvador Inside the Salvadoran gang las maras, run by former U.S. immigrants who started gangs in LA and — once deported — brought their violent ways back home. Alma GuillermoprietoThe New York Review of BooksOctober 24, 2011
AnalysisImmigration, World Letter from Oaxaca If there’s one experience that Mexicans have in common more than any other, more even than hatred and repudiation of the mutual violence of the narcos and the government, it’s migration. David BaconOctober 24, 2011