Climate and Punishment
In Sweltering Texas, Prisons Without Air Conditioning Are About to Get a Lot Hotter
The climate crisis is raising temperatures in detention facilities across the country. Nobody is ready for it.
Special Investigations
Ghosts of Guantánamo
I Spent 20 Years Covering America's Secretive Detention Regime. Torture Was Always the Subtext.
The U.S. naval base in Cuba was like another planet, where only the camaraderie of other journalists kept me tied to reality.
U.N. Power Broker Jeffrey Sachs Took Millions From the UAE to Research “Well-Being”
The happiness project might be easy to dismiss if it didn’t confer legitimacy on a repressive government.
Origins of Covid
How the Pursuit of Unknown Viruses Risks Triggering the Next Pandemic
Pandemic prediction spawned a multimillion-dollar research industry, but many scientists warn that viral forecasting is a dangerous mirage.
Inside Mexico’s Historic Lawsuit Targeting U.S. Gun Companies
The $10 billion claim takes aim at the industry’s greatest legal shield, aiming to succeed where U.S. victims of gun violence routinely fail.
A Reformist Black Police Chief Faces an Uprising of the Old Guard
Keith Humphrey was brought in to reform a department riven by race. His opponents accused him of bias and sexual improprieties.
He Declined the FBI's Offer to Become an Informant. Then His Life Was Ruined.
Aswad Khan declined to become an FBI informant. His friends began getting questioned at the U.S. border.
From Bush to Obama, and Trump to Biden, U.S. Militarism Is the Great Unifier
Joe Biden's presidency demonstrates, once again, that U.S. commitments to militarism and permanent global war are enduring and bipartisan.
North Carolina’s Aging Death Row Population Faces Looming Health Care Crisis
The state’s prison health care system is failing to adequately care for older people with chronic illnesses and diseases.
The Coronavirus Crisis
How Hospitals Became Vaults That Hid Evidence of Covid-19's Toll
In the first months of the pandemic, only a small number of the more than 6,000 hospitals in the U.S. let journalists inside.