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Racial Justice
Examining Race and Racism in America
All Topics
- This Hospital System Fought COVID, Then a Far-Right Leader. Now It’s Taking on Idaho’s Abortion Ban.
- A New Missouri Bill Would Let Residents Donate to Anti-Abortion Centers Instead of Paying Any Taxes
- Georgia Won’t Say Who’s Now Serving on Its Maternal Mortality Committee After Dismissing All Members Last Year
Biden Administration
The 46th President and His Administration
- A Year of Empty Threats and a “Smokescreen” Policy: How the State Department Let Israel Get Away With Horrors in Gaza
- The Biden Administration Is Separating Families at the Border. It Doesn’t Always Say Why.
- Microsoft’s “Free” Plan to Upgrade Government Cybersecurity Was Designed to Box Out Competitors and Drive Profits, Insiders Say
- New Mexico AG to Investigate Gallup-McKinley School District for Harsh Discipline of Native American Students
- In Secret Recording, a Top City Library Official Calls Alaska Natives “Woke” and “Racists”
- Eugene Clemons May Be Ineligible for the Death Penalty. A Rigid Clinton-Era Law Could Force Him to Be Executed Anyway.
Courts
An Eye on the American Judicial System
Criminal Justice
Accountability in Crime and Law
Debt
What Americans Owe and Why
Democracy
Inside Voting in America
- They Followed North Carolina Election Rules When They Cast Their Ballots. Now Their Votes Could Be Tossed Anyway.
- North Carolina Supreme Court Candidate Wants Military Absentee Votes Tossed. Years Earlier, That’s How He Voted.
- North Carolina Supreme Court Blocked Certification of a Justice’s Win. Activists Fear It’s “Dangerous for Democracy.”
DOGE
How Elon Musk and His Associates Are Remaking the Federal Bureaucracy
Education
Inside Our Schools
- How Texas Conservatives Use At-Large School Board Elections to Influence What Students Learn
- Parents Sue Trump Administration for Allegedly Sabotaging Education Department’s Civil Rights Division
- Texas Lawmakers Want a Charter School Network to Stop Paying Its Superintendent Nearly $900K. The School Board Says No.
Environment
The Tension Between Humans and Nature
Health Care
Pulling Back the Curtain on the Health Industry and Regulation
Immigration
How Policy Impacts Migrants
- La presión de Trump sobre países y organizaciones internacionales debilita las protecciones para solicitantes de asilo
- An ICE Contractor Is Worth Billions. It’s Still Fighting to Pay Detainees as Little as $1 a Day to Work.
- Some Americans Have Already Been Caught in Trump’s Immigration Dragnet. More Will Be.
Labor
What Work Is Like in the U.S.
- EPA Scientists Said They Were Pressured to Downplay Harms From Chemicals. A Watchdog Found They Were Retaliated Against.
- Nike Shareholders Want to Force Actions on Environmental and Worker Protections. They Face Long Odds.
- Escaping Oklahoma: A Worker’s Story From Inside an Illegal Marijuana Operation
Military
Accountability for the Armed Forces
- A Defense Department Directive to Expand Access to Military Courts Falls Short of Federal Law’s Requirements
- This Icebreaker Has Design Problems and a History of Failure. It’s America’s Latest Military Vessel.
- Blinken Says Israeli Units Accused of Serious Violations Have Done Enough to Avoid Sanctions. Experts and Insiders Disagree.
Politics
Holding Political Actors Accountable
- Thousands of Families Experience Stillbirth. Three Moms Tell Their Stories in a New Documentary.
- A New Missouri Bill Would Let Residents Donate to Anti-Abortion Centers Instead of Paying Any Taxes
- Georgia Won’t Say Who’s Now Serving on Its Maternal Mortality Committee After Dismissing All Members Last Year
- Is a New Mississippi Law Decreasing Jailings of People Awaiting Mental Health Treatment? The State Doesn’t Know.
- “Everyone Will Die in Prison”: How Louisiana’s Plan to Lock People Up Longer Imperils Its Sickest Inmates
- Michigan Lawmakers Working to Fix a Program That Failed to Compensate the Wrongfully Convicted
Regulation
The Efforts to Keep Industry in Check
- Two Transgender Girls, Six Federal Agencies. How Trump Is Trying to Pressure Maine Into Obedience.
- Women Made Electoral Gains in Statehouses Across the Country in 2024. The Southeast Is a Different Story.
- In Rural Tennessee, Domestic Violence Victims Face Barriers to Getting Justice. One County Has Transformed Its Approach.
Technology
How Big Tech Impacts Our Lives
Trump Administration
The 45th and 47th President and His Administration
USAID
Inside the Destruction of the Aid Agency
- Tổng thống Trump đã dừng hoạt động xử lý chất độc da cam. Việc làm này khiến cho hàng trăm nghìn người gặp nguy cơ bị nhiễm độc.
- Trump Halted an Agent Orange Cleanup. That Puts Hundreds of Thousands at Risk for Poisoning.
- Internal Memos: Senior USAID Leaders Warned Trump Appointees of Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths From Closing Agency
