Investigations

5 'Stand Your Ground' Cases You Should Know About

By Suevon Lee / ProPublica

Here are some of the most notable cases where the Stand Your Ground law has led to freedom from criminal prosecution.

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In Race For Better Cell Phone Service, Workers Who Climb Towers Pay With Their Lives

By Ryan Knutson, Liz Day / ProPublica

Is Malcolm Gladwell America's Most Successful Propagandist and Corporate Shill?

By Yasha Levine / eXiled Online

Does a Texas Charter School Chain Use Taxpayer Money to Proselytize Students and Fund a Church?

By Simon Brown / Church & State

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Drones

By Cora Currier / ProPublica

Petraeus' Love Affair Becomes Tangled, Shakespearean Web

Sick: Government Sprayed Radioactive Chemicals on Poor People in Science Experiment, Study Claims

Very Bad Things Happen When We Depend on the Same People Who Caused the Foreclosure Crisis to Track Its Destruction

Investigations

Burned Alive at Work: American Workers Dying in Totally Preventable Accidents

Chris Hamby / The Center for Public Integrity

Koch Operative Steered $55 Million to Front Groups Airing Ads Against Democrats; Ads Assailed Candidates Over Abortion, 9/11, Medicare

Lee Fang / Republic Report

The Enviro Disaster You Know Nothing About: The Eco-Devastating Quest for "Frac Sand" in Rural America

Ellen Cantarow / TomDispatch.com

Fighting the Corporate Prison Industry: Citizens of One Illinois Town Fight CCA Immigration Detention Facility

Siddhartha Mahanta / American Independent News Network

ALEC and ExxonMobil Push Loopholes in Fracking Chemical Disclosure Rules

Cora Currier / ProPublica

How Christian Groups Push Right-Wing Religion With the Help of Your Tax Dollars

Sofia Resnick / American Independent News Network

Inside the Growing Prescription Pill Epidemic That's Ravaging Communities

Evelyn Nieves / AlterNet and Salon

Workers Collapsing While Making Your H&M Clothes and Puma Shoes: Where's the Mass Outcry?

Anne Elizabeth Moore / TruthOut.org

Voter Suppression 101: How Conservatives Are Conspiring to Disenfranchise Millions of Americans

Ian Millhiser, Scott Keyes, Tobin Van Ostern, Abraham White / Center for American Progress

Exposed: Massive New Spy Center Built to Track Your Emails and Phone Calls

Amy Goodman, Nermeen Shaikh, James Bamford / Democracy Now!

The ALEC Connection to Trayvon Martin Slaying

Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America

How an Anti-Democratic, Corporate-Friendly Pennsylvania Law Has Elevated the Battle Over Fracking to a Civil Rights Fight

Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

Fracking Democracy: Why Pennsylvania's Act 13 May Be the Nation's Worst Corporate Giveaway

Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

What Are We Really Eating? Reporter Goes Undercover to Reveal the Real Story of Our Broken Food System

Kerry Trueman / AlterNet

Why Small-Town America Is Drowning in Drugs

Jeff Deeney / The Fix

Is NYPD Running Wild? Patterns of Brutality Raise Questions About Mayor's Control of Police

Kristen Gwynne / AlterNet

Revealed: How Syngenta Investigated the Press and Shaped the News About its Controversial Weed-Killer Atrazine

Lisa Graves, Beau Hodai / PR Watch

Koch Brothers Convene Super-Secret Billionaires' Meeting for 2012 Elections

Lee Fang / Republic Report

Thanks to Citizens United, Multinational Mega Lobbyist Firm Salivates Over $4 Billion in Campaign Cash

Lee Fang / AlterNet

Tanks, SWAT Teams, Surveillance Helicopters: Cities Already Turning Into Mini-Police States for the Political Conventions

Rania Khalek / AlterNet

The 20 Biggest Donors of the 2012 Election (So Far)

Dave Gilson, Gavin Aronsen / Mother Jones

Fracking on Shaky Ground: How Our Latest Fossil Fuel Addiction Is Linked to Earthquakes

Scott Thill / AlterNet

Inside Our Supposedly "Humane" Immigrant Detention Centers

Seth Wessler / ColorLines

5 Things You Should Know About the FBI's Massive New Biometric Database

Tana Ganeva / AlterNet

Damning New Letter from NY State Insider: 'Hydraulic Fracturing as It's Practiced Today Will Contaminate Our Aquifers'

Karen McVeigh / The Guardian

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