Gruesome Footage of Dairy Calves Exposes a Gaping Loophole in California’s Landmark Animal Welfare Law
An investigation by activist group DxE showed thousands of dairy calves held in tight hutches, despite efforts to outlaw such confined conditions.
Special Investigations
Drone Wars
Israel’s Gabriella Blum Helped Write the Laws of Drone Warfare. Nearly Two Decades Later, She Has Regrets.
Israeli lawyers counseled that targeted killings should always be the exception, never the rule. But critical checks on the practice have evaporated.
Making a Killing
Saudi Women Who Fought for the Right to Drive Are Disappearing and Going Into Exile
Despite promises of reform, Saudi Arabia is escalating its assault on civil society — and, for the first time, women have become its primary targets.
Supreme Privilege
Why Brett Kavanaugh’s High School Friends Try to Protect His Reputation — and Theirs
Brett Kavanaugh’s portrayal of his high school years as innocent depends on confirmation — or silence — from a handful of men in a position to know.
Drug Traffickers in Rio Explain How Brazil’s Elections Work in the Favelas
“We’re alibis for them”: Gang leaders discuss the politics of fear, alienation, and vote buying in Rio de Janeiro’s poorest communities.
The War on Immigrants
Undocumented Immigrant Faces a Choice: Become an Informant for ICE or Be Deported
ICE told Carlos Rueda Cruz to focus on “illegal aliens” with criminal histories. He would need to produce one name per month or be sent back to Mexico.
ISIS Has Not Vanished. It Is Fighting a Guerrilla War Against the Iraqi State.
Iraqi security forces lack the training, local knowledge, and community trust to defeat the militants.
How Small Bands of Rescuers Risk Prison to Save Migrants from Drowning in the Mediterranean
Sea rescues are being criminalized by the Greek government, which charged a group including Spanish firefighters with facilitating human trafficking.
A Grassroots Uprising in Amish Country Begins to Find Meaning in Politics
The civic muscle is being exercised in Jess King's unlikely drive to flip a deeply red district. It's paying surprising dividends along the way.
A Father Took His 10-Year-Old Fishing. She Fell in the Water and Drowned. It Was a Tragic Accident — Then He Was Charged With Murder.
Wendell Lindsey is serving life in a Texas prison, but his conviction relied on dubious drowning science and a key witness with secrets of her own.