InvestigationWorld Dissident Thunder How a pro-democracy insurgency — comprised of activists in exile, in prison, or underground — returned to take Burma’s military junta by storm. Delphine SchrankVirginia Quarterly ReviewAugust 13, 2012
ImpactBusiness The Pink Pyramid’s Digital Trail After Investigative Fund reporter Virginia Sole-Smith’s Harper’s cover story, “The Pink Pyramid Scheme,” hit newsstands two weeks ago, a deluge of blog posts and interviews followed… Robert Owen BrownAugust 9, 2012
AnalysisJustice An Irregular Army Since the War on Terror was declared more than a decade ago, the US military has done all it can to train its troops to fight — but among its ranks lurk some of the most violent neo-Nazis and white supremacists in America. Matt KennardAugust 8, 2012
AnalysisImmigration, Justice State Audit Considered for Escondido On Wednesday August 8, 2012 the Joint Legislative Auditing Committee (JLAC) of California will consider whether to direct the State Bureau of Audits to look into Escondido’s suspect towing and impound programs. California State Senator Christine Kehoe submitted the request to JLAC after an… John Carlos FreyAugust 5, 2012
AnalysisJustice What’s Stop and Frisk Got To Do With It? Many critics of the New York Police Department’s mass stop-and-question or frisk policy focus not on the race of the people stopped but on the sheer volume of encounters. They say this reflects a larger problem for the NYPD: an obsession with metrics. The incredible decrease in crime during the… Jarrett MurphyAugust 3, 2012
NewsJustice A “Revelatory” Reporter Reveals… Nieman Reports — the quarterly magazine for Harvard University’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism and a website we follow; you should, too — has a great new… Jayati VoraAugust 2, 2012
AnalysisImmigration, Justice Addressing Abuse by the US Border Patrol The US Customs and Border Patrol has been in the headlines for the past few weeks — and for all the wrong reasons. There was the investigation I led into acts of abuse by border officials that aired on July… John Carlos FreyJuly 30, 2012
ImpactJournalism Making it to HBO Here at The Investigative Fund, we usually measure our success by media pick-up, raising awareness of the issues we are writing about, and once in a lucky while, honest-to-goodness real-world impact such as the Jayati VoraJuly 27, 2012
InvestigationPolitics Romney Steered a Key Olympic Project to a Friend Did the insider deal violate Romney’s own Salt Lake ethics rules? Wayne BarrettMother JonesJuly 27, 2012
AnalysisBusiness, Labor Why Mary Kay is Only the Beginning In my Investigative Fund article, “The Pink Pyramid Scheme,” which appeared as the cover story of the August issue of Harper’s, cosmetics direct sales giant Mary Kay claimed “it employs multiple sales directors who earn more than $1 million a year…” Virginia Sole-SmithJuly 27, 2012