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Lessons From Trump’s “War” on Chicago
Chicago has been one of the latest stops on the Trump administration’s deportation tour. “Operation Midway Blitz” started in September and, for months...
Trump’s Gilded White House Makeover Is All About Power
The second Trump administration has made tearing down parts of the federal government a priority. And some of those efforts have been literal. In Octo...
The Gaza Flotilla Story You Didn’t Hear
Earlier this fall, hundreds of activists from all over the world crowded onto several dozen boats and set sail for Gaza. Their goal: Break through Isr...
One on One With Trump’s Black MAGA Pastor
More To The Story: Detroit pastor Lorenzo Sewell is one of the most prominent Black conservatives in President Donald Trump’s orbit. It all started la...
Alabama’s Threats to Prosecute Abortion Helpers
In August 2022, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall made a guest appearance on a local conservative talk radio show. It was two months after the U...
What Is Riley Gaines Hiding? We Investigated.
This week, we’re bringing you something a bit different. Our reporter Madison Pauly recently teamed up with journalist and podcaster Pablo Torre for a...
In Rural America Public Radio Saves Lives
When a typhoon hit Alaska, public radio station KYUK was on the air, broadcasting critical information about conditions, evacuations and search and re...
Why America Is Obsessed With True Crime
More To The Story: John J. Lennon thinks true crime is exploitative—and he has a unique perspective. In 2001, he killed a man on a street in New York...
In a Mississippi Jail, Inmates Became Weapons
Chris Mack has been locked up in Mississippi’s Rankin County Jail on and off since he was a teenager. In a lawsuit, he detailed a jailhouse assault th...
Executions Are Rising in the US. This Reverend Witnesses Them.
More To The Story: About 2,100 people are on death row in America. Some have been there for decades, in part because executions have been on the decli...
The Deputies Who Tortured a Mississippi County
When Andrea Dettore-Murphy first moved to Rankin County, Mississippi, she didn’t believe the stories she heard about how brutal the sheriff’s departme...
I Study Fascism. I’ve Already Fled America.
More To The Story: Jason Stanley isn’t afraid to use the F-word when talking about President Donald Trump. The author of How Fascism Works and Erasing...
An Atrocity of War Goes Unpunished
In November 2005, a group of US Marines killed 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq. The case against them became one of the most high-profile war crimes pro...
America Had a Black President. Then Came the Whitelash.
More To The Story: America in these last 10 years has experienced generational political upheaval, clashes over race and identity, and a battle over t...
A Midnight Phone Call. A Missing Movie. Decades of Questions.
Here at the Center for Investigative Reporting, we excel at finding things: government documents, contact information, the misdeeds people have tried...
Al Letson at No Kings: Hope, Fury, and Inflatables
More To The Story: On October 18, roughly 2,700 No Kings demonstrations took place around the US. Organizers estimated that 7 million protesters came...
Exposing a Global Surveillance Empire
In June, a sharp-suited Austrian executive from a global surveillance company told a prospective client that he could “go to prison” for organizing th...
How a Climate Doomsayer Became an Unexpected Optimist
More To The Story: Bill McKibben isn’t known for his rosy outlook on climate change. Back in 1989, the environmentalist wrote The End of Nature, which...
Immigrants on the Line
Mackenson Remy didn’t plan to bypass security when he drove into the parking lot of a factory in Greeley, Colorado. He’d never been there before. All...
The Race to Stop AI’s Threats to Democracy
More To The Story: OpenAI became the world’s most valuable private company last week after a stock deal pushed the value of the artificial intelligenc...
The Secret Story of FTX’s Rise and Ruin Part 2
When the cryptocurrency exchange FTX imploded, customers around the world lost access to their money. Founder Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted of fraud...
So You Don’t Understand Crypto. Buckle Up.
More To The Story: The growth of crypto—decentralized digital currency that doesn’t rely on the backing of a bank or government—is one of the most tra...
The Secret Story of FTX’s Rise and Ruin Part 1
Sam Bankman-Fried was once called the “crypto king.” But in November 2022, his company, FTX, imploded within a matter of days. All around the world, c...
Baltimore Mayor to Trump: Don’t Send Your Troops
More To The Story: When Brandon Scott took office in late 2020 as one of the youngest mayors in Baltimore’s history, he pledged to reduce the number o...
Kids Under Fire in Gaza
When Dr. Mimi Syed returned from her first volunteer trip to Gaza in the summer of 2024, she started flipping through her notes and came to a shocking...
The Secret Story of FTX’s Rise and Ruin Trailer
Our two-part series starts September 27th, exposing the inside story of the failed crypto currency exchange & the contentious bankruptcy that followed...
Charlie Kirk and Trump's Looming Political Crackdown
More To The Story: The shocking assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk last week was part of a wider, horrific trend: the rise of politic...
The Strike That Broke a Supermax Prison
At 18, Jack Morris was convicted of murdering a man in South Los Angeles and sent to prison for life. It was 1979, and America was entering the era of...
Being Black in America Almost Killed Me Part 2
More To The Story: When Trymaine Lee began writing his first book, he didn’t realize that the gun violence he was reporting on was such a central part...
Taken by ICE
A young woman clings to a tree as masked men try to peel her off. The men wrench one of the woman’s arms behind her back, then stuff her into the back...
Being Black in America Almost Killed Me Part 1
More To The Story: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Trymaine Lee was in the middle of writing his first book when the unthinkable happened. At 38, a...
Will the National Parks Survive Trump?
From layoffs to billion-dollar budget cuts and ideological battles over history itself, the National Park Service is facing one of the most turbulent...
Why Rehab Often Fuels Relapse Instead of Recovery
More To The Story: The opioid crisis has been a quiet, deadly presence in America for a quarter-century now. Since 1999, it’s killed more than 800,000...
A Baby Adopted, A Family Divided
In 2017, David Leavitt drove to the Northern Cheyenne reservation in Montana to adopt a baby girl. A few years later, during an interview with a docum...
Why Conservatives Are Trying to Kill the Voting Rights Act
More To The Story: The Voting Rights Act turned 60 years old this month. The landmark piece of legislation is considered one of the most effective law...
What Police Weren’t Told About Tasers
Kansas City police Officer Matt Masters first used a Taser in the early 2000s. He said it worked well for taking people down; it was safe and effectiv...
Trump’s Homelessness Crackdown Has Been Tried Before. It Didn’t Work.
Earlier this week, President Donald Trump announced that his administration is removing homeless encampments from around Washington, DC. The announcem...
She Ate a Poppy Seed Salad. Child Services Took Her Baby.
Pregnant with her fifth child, Susan Horton had a lot of confidence in her parenting abilities. Then she ate a salad from Costco: an “everything” chop...
Gazans Are Starving. It’s a Manmade Catastrophe.
In the last few months, widespread starvation has gripped the Gaza Strip. United Nations-backed food security experts say the “worst-case scenario of...
They Followed Doctors’ Orders. The State Took Their Babies.
Jade Dass was taking medication to treat her addiction to opioids before she became pregnant. Scientific studies and the Centers for Disease Control a...