InvestigationBusiness From Kurdistan to K Street How small-time businessman Shlomi Michaels became a key middleman in Washington’s covert foreign policy machine. Laura RozenMother JonesNovember 18, 2008
InvestigationBusiness, Politics Three Years After Hurricane Katrina, Homelessness Looms Where are families evacuated after Hurricane Katrina supposed to go once FEMA kicks them out of government trailer parks? Deepa FernandesMother JonesSeptember 28, 2008
InvestigationBusiness The Subprime Swindle The mortgage industry’s predatory lending practices are not only destroying home ownership – they’re bankrupting black America. Kai WrightThe NationJuly 14, 2008
InvestigationBusiness, Politics Why the Economy Went South A reformed Wall Streeter explains where Congress went wrong on lending. Nomi PrinsMother JonesJuly 6, 2008
InvestigationBusiness, Politics Where Credit Is Due: A Timeline of the Mortgage Crisis A field guide to the loan sharks and politicos who got us into the predatory lending mess, from 1913 to 2008 Nomi PrinsMother JonesJuly 1, 2008
InvestigationBusiness, Labor Meet the Wealth Gap The super rich fund think tanks and lobbyists to increase the distance between them and everyone else – while those at the bottom face the economic draft. Gabriel ThompsonThe NationJune 30, 2008
InvestigationBusiness Identity Crisis Rupert Murdoch is giving The Wall Street Journal more global reach, but he’s sacrificed in-depth investigations for breaking news. Liza FeatherstoneColumbia Journalism ReviewMay 1, 2008
InvestigationBusiness, Immigration, Politics, Technology Investing in Insecurity Along U.S. Borders Private contractor Boeing Integrated Defense Systems is policing America’s borders with sophisticated surveillance equipment – to the tune of $30 billion. Joseph RicheyNational Radio ProjectDecember 19, 2007
InvestigationBusiness, Health, Labor The High Price of Beauty Cheap beauty products are making Americans sick. How an epidemic is plaguing poorly paid workers at nail salons – while the FDA does nothing. Virginia Sole-SmithThe NationOctober 8, 2007
InvestigationBusiness Medifraud Amok Drug companies are paying off doctors and profiting enormously from off-label use of anti-psychotics in kids. How Big Pharma defrauds Americans. Art LevineThe American ProspectSeptember 26, 2007