Inside TI

Iraq After Invasion Bloodiest Country for Journalists

Another journalist was gunned down in Iraq today, prominent Al-Iraqiya television anchor, Riad al-Saray. According to Iraqi police al-Saray was ambushed by gunmen using silencers outside his car. The Committee to Protect Journalists…

Marissa Colon-MargoliesSeptember 7, 2010

ImpactImmigration, Labor

Federal Indictments in Human Trafficking Scheme

Mordechai Orian, the target of an Investigative Fund probe into human trafficking, is now under federal indictment, in the largest such federal case in history.

Esther KaplanSeptember 7, 2010

AnalysisBusiness, Environment

Worker Abuses Abound in Oil Cleanup Scandal

Unthinkably, another oil rig has exploded off the Gulf Coast. No one died in the explosion that occurred around 9 a.m. this morning, but there have been conflicting reports of worker injuries. An oil slick a mile long and 100 feet wide has already been spotted…

Marissa Colon-MargoliesSeptember 2, 2010

AnalysisJustice

‘Take Back New Orleans’

One phrase haunts both Law & Disorder and If God is Willing and da Creek Don’t Rise, two television documentaries released this week featuring the work of Investigative Fund reporter A.C. Thompson: “Take back New Orleans.”

George WarnerAugust 27, 2010

InvestigationJustice

Crossing the Line

In Texas, the combination of abstinence education and anti-abortion stigma is driving some women away from abortion clinics — to unsafe do-it-yourself chemical abortions at home. Is the post-Roe era already here?

Laura TillmanThe NationAugust 26, 2010

ImpactJournalism

Investigative Fund reporters on PBS and Fresh Air

Tune in to tonight’s episode of PBS’ Frontline to catch the story of Henry Glover, a victim of police violence in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. His murder was first uncovered by The Investigative Fund’s A.C. Thompson…

Jayati VoraAugust 25, 2010

AnalysisBusiness, Politics

The Kochtopus Goes to War

Don’t miss Jane Mayer’s excellent probe into the Koch brothers in this week’s New Yorker. It makes a persuasive case that David and Charles Koch, owners of Koch Industries, are the country’s most important conservative political donors — and the ideological and financial fathers of the Tea Party movement…

Esther KaplanAugust 25, 2010

InvestigationEnvironment, World

Tanzanian Highway Threatens the Serengeti

One of the world’s greatest wildlife spectacles, the annual wildebeest migration, is jeopardized by plans to build a highway right through the Serengeti.

Jesse DukesGlobal PostAugust 19, 2010

AnalysisPolitics

What Freedom of Information?

So I received in the mail yesterday a slim letter from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve in response to a Freedom of Information Request I sent in January 2009, more than nineteen months ago. “Board staff has been unable to respond to your request to date…”

Esther KaplanAugust 18, 2010

InvestigationJustice, World

Straight Man’s Burden

It was a Ugandan member of parliament who introduced the bill that would penalize homosexuality with life imprisonment or death, but the idea traces back to a secretive American evangelical movement known as The Family.

Jeff SharletHarper'sAugust 18, 2010

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