A New Film Examines Sexual Violence as a Feature of the Bakken Oil Boom
“Nuuca” looks at attributes of the boom that go beyond emissions and oil spills: rising rates of sexual violence, trafficking, and harassment by oil workers.
Special Investigations
Snowden Archive
The NSA’s Hidden Spy Hubs in Eight U.S. Cities
These fortress-like AT&T buildings are central to a secret NSA program that has monitored billions of communications, documents and sources reveal.
Making a Killing
A Rare Look at Yemen’s War, Where Children Starve and Hospitals Are on Life-Support
Photojournalist Alex Potter chronicles the suffering of Yemenis after three years of fighting and near famine.
The War on Immigrants
An Abused Woman Came to the U.S. Seeking Asylum. The Government Took Her 5-Year-Old Son. This Is How She Got Him Back.
“I cried some, but I tried to be strong,” the little boy said when he was reunited with his mother after 38 days of separation.
Drone Wars
The U.S. Has Conducted 550 Drone Strikes in Libya Since 2011 — More Than in Somalia, Yemen, or Pakistan
Libya has served as a laboratory for new drone warfare tactics.
Alabama’s Lynching Memorial and the Legacy of Racial Terror in the South
At the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, the historical link between lynching and the death penalty is hard to miss.
Iraq’s Courts Have Rushed to Convict Thousands of ISIS Fighters. This is One Family's Struggle for Fairness, Truth, and Reconciliation.
Rather than mending intercommunal rifts to pave the way for reconciliation, the ISIS trials risk further polarizing Iraq’s fractured society.
Voices
Glenn Greenwald Interviews Democratic Primary Challenger Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York
Can a 28-year-old democratic socialist pull off one of the rarest feats in U.S. politics: beating an entrenched incumbent in a Democratic Party primary?
Making a Killing
More Than Just Russia — There’s a Strong Case for the Trump Team Colluding With Saudi Arabia, Israel, and the UAE
One common link runs through the agendas of all the participants in this Trump Tower meeting: their hatred of Iran and their desire for regime change.
Lacking Birth Control Options, Desperate Venezuelan Women Turn to Sterilization and Illegal Abortion
The extreme lengths people will go not to have children illustrate the depth of Venezuela’s economic crisis, and its disproportionate effect on women.