BackstoryEnvironment, Immigration, Journalism, Politics The Backstory: Adam Federman, Tanvi Misra, and Kathryn Joyce How Reporters Can Prepare for the Second Trump Administration Paco AlvarezJanuary 17, 2025
InvestigationEnvironment, Politics Trump’s Greenland Problem As the president-elect’s call to buy—or take—a sovereign country moves from punchline to possibility, a look at the real stakes of the Arctic’s mounting cold war. Adam FedermanIn These TimesJanuary 16, 2025
InvestigationJustice, Politics Prisons Have Become Finishing Schools for the Alt-Right As right-wing extremists do time for increasingly serious crimes, today’s young neofascists are becoming more radicalized. Ali WinstonVanity FairOctober 15, 2024
InvestigationEnvironment, Politics If Trump Wins the Election, U.S. Parks and Wildlife Face a New Age of Mining As president, Trump would dramatically weaken environmental protections and remake America’s public lands. Adam Federman & Jimmy TobiasThe GuardianSeptember 28, 2024
InvestigationJustice, Politics The Crackdown on Campus Protests is Just Beginning At least a dozen colleges and universities have changed their policies to make it harder to protest the war on Gaza. More may follow this summer. Adam FedermanIn These TimesJune 20, 2024
BackstoryJustice, Politics The Backstory: Adam Federman Reporting on the War on Protest Paco AlvarezApril 23, 2024
InvestigationJustice, Politics The War on Protest Political repression is on the rise as the state finds new ways to criminalize dissent and collective action. Adam FedermanIn These TimesApril 17, 2024
InvestigationPolitics The Eric Adams Table of Success Mayor Adams has said that “all my haters become my waiters when I sit down at the table of success.” Who’s at the table? How are they related? Why do they matter? Christopher Robbins, Esther Wang, Max Rivlin-Nadler, Nick Pinto, Adlan Jackson & Katie WayHell GateDecember 18, 2023
InvestigationEnvironment, Politics The New Cold War in the Arctic Amid rising geopolitical tensions, the U.S. is expanding its military presence in Greenland, increasing the risk of something going very wrong. Adam FedermanIn These TimesOctober 30, 2023
InvestigationJustice, Politics Prisoners Say New Jersey’s Alternative To Solitary Confinement Is Pretty Much The Same Progressives celebrated a 2019 law meant to reform solitary confinement. But the state’s Department of Corrections doesn’t seem to be following it. Christopher Blackwell & Nina ZweigHuffPostOctober 7, 2023