Hacked Documents: How Iran Can Track and Control Protesters’ Phones
The documents provide an inside look at an Iranian government program that lets authorities monitor and manipulate people’s phones.
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Hazards and Holding Cells
Migrants Fleeing Hurricanes and Drought Face New Climate Disasters in ICE Detention
Angel Argueta Anariba fled a 1998 hurricane in Honduras, only to get lashed by one while detained by ICE two decades later.
Climate and Punishment
With Floodwaters Rising, Prisoners Wait for Help in Floating Feces
As the climate crisis fuels bigger storms, deteriorating prisons are making flood risks worse.
Climate and Punishment
As Wildfires Threaten More Prisons, the Incarcerated Ask Who Will Save Their Lives
With larger and more intense fires wreaking havoc, incarcerated people and their loved ones are kept in the dark on evacuation plans.
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.
Climate and Punishment: Methodology and Data
Major Tea Party Group Was Backed by Salsa Billionaire and Other Wealthy Donors, Hacked Documents Reveal
Tea Party Patriots' web database contained only a small fraction of the "3 million patriots" it heralds on its site.
Trump EPA Invited Companies to Revise Pollution Records of a Potent Carcinogen
After ethylene oxide was shown to be 30 times more carcinogenic than previously thought, polluters began rewriting their toxic history — with the EPA’s help.
Millions of Leaked Police Files Detail Suffocating Surveillance of China's Uyghur Minority
Invasive digital monitoring and community informants drive a system all too ready to classify Muslims in Ürümqi as extremists and terrorists.
The Coronavirus Crisis
How Trump’s Deportation Flights Are Putting Latin America and the Caribbean at Risk
The U.S. has forged ahead with deportations amid the pandemic, creating a petri dish for the virus in crowded ICE facilities and then exporting it overseas.