Atlanta's Mental Health Problem — and Ours
What kind of a society lets a woman live in her own feces on an iconic Atlanta street corner for five months?
Special Investigations
The War on Immigrants
U.S. Border Authorities Failed to Prepare for Influx of Haitian Migrants Despite Weeks of Warnings
Local officials had warned for weeks that large groups of Haitian migrants were moving through Mexico toward the border.
The 9/11 Wars
The U.S. Military Often Kills Civilians — and Rarely Offers Compensation
A U.S. drone strike killed a family in Kabul — but the military rarely provides compensation when it harms civilians.
The 9/11 Wars
An FBI Informant's Unlikely Role in Upcoming Supreme Court Case on Surveillance of Muslims
Craig Monteilh's affidavit is central to one of the most significant legal challenges to the FBI’s post-9/11 surveillance of Muslims.
The 9/11 Wars
How Post-9/11 Visions of an Imperiled Homeland Supercharged U.S. Immigration Enforcement
Two decades on, the creation of DHS stands out as the most significant domestic consequence of the war on terror.
Ghosts of Guantánamo
Their Fathers Were Caught in the 9/11 Dragnet. Guantánamo Came to Define Their Lives.
The sons of two Guantánamo detainees speak about getting to know their fathers through sporadic calls and Google searches about the war on terror.
The 9/11 Wars
The Forever Wars Are Coming Home
If the people on the other side are extremists and terrorists, the sins of your own side can almost always be rationalized.
The West Virginia Senator Reaps Big Financial Rewards From a Network of Coal Companies With Grim Records of Pollution, Safety Violations, and Death
Manchin’s claim that climate pollution would be worsened by the elimination of fossil fuels is highly dubious, if not outright false. What would unquestionably be impacted is his personal wealth.
The 9/11 Wars
For Two Decades, Americans Told One Lie After Another About What They Were Doing in Afghanistan
The war in Afghanistan was nasty and brutish, marked by the same imperial arrogance that doomed U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
The 9/11 Wars
As the Taliban Seize Cities, Desperate Afghans Are Trapped in an American-Made Fiasco
Since 2001, urban Afghans have enjoyed a return of ordinary freedoms. Now they have the most to lose.