A Canadian Energy Company Bought an Oregon Sheriff’s Unit
Pembina was the sole funding source of a sheriff’s unit that monitored opposition to the proposed Jordan Cove natural gas pipeline and export terminal.
Special Investigations
Puerto Rico’s Power Failures Inspired a Rooftop Solar Movement. But Officials Are Undermining It — in Favor of Natural Gas.
The island’s electric grid is too centralized to be resilient. But politicians and investors are obstructing a grassroots movement for community solar.
The U.S. Government Secretly Spied on Chinese American Scientists, Upending Lives and Paving the Way for Decades of Discrimination
The program’s effects reverberate today, at a moment when combating economic espionage and scientific theft from China are among the FBI’s top priorities.
In the Face of Rising White Supremacist Violence, Police Continue to Investigate Victims and Activists
A white supremacist attack on a civil rights icon in Tennessee remains unsolved while police across the state illegally spy on community activists.
The Playbook for Poisoning the Earth
Though neonicotinoids are banned in the EU, a sophisticated information war has kept these insecticides — toxic to bees and birds — on the U.S. market.
We Scoured the Streets of Rio de Janeiro After Gun Fights. Here’s the Story the Bullet Shells Tell.
The gun violence that plagues Rio is made possible by ammunition made largely in Brazil, but also from all over the world. We collected the evidence.
The Condemned
By Any Measure, Capital Punishment Is a Failed Policy
Most people who have been sentenced to death in the U.S. are no longer on death row, and they haven’t been executed. Where did they go?
The Condemned
What Happens When a Reform Prosecutor Stands Up to the Death Penalty
Prosecutors wield enormous discretion in the U.S. criminal justice system — unless they decide that capital punishment is unjust.
The Condemned
A Push to Repeal the Death Penalty Gains Ground Across the Western United States
Abolition of the death penalty has increasingly become a bipartisan issue, with fiscal conservatives joining reformers focused on wrongful convictions.
The Condemned
Race Looms Ever Larger as Death Sentences Decline
The Supreme Court restarted the death penalty in 1976 after ruling it unconstitutional. Our numbers show that race remains an overwhelming factor.