Investigations

Does Your Doctor Have a Fake Degree? The Billion-Dollar Industry That Has Sold Over a Million Fake Diplomas

By John Bear, Allen Ezell / AlterNet

There is a major crisis in the world of higher education: the large and growing number of fake universities and fake degrees.

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5 'Stand Your Ground' Cases You Should Know About

By Suevon Lee / ProPublica

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

'Spontaneous' Combustion: Can Bodies Burn From the Inside Out?

Petraeus' Love Affair Becomes Tangled, Shakespearean Web

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

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Investigations

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Drones

Cora Currier / ProPublica

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

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