Courts & Law

Stored for Safe-Keeping, Never To Be Seen Again

This story was originally published by ProPublica.When Stephenie came upon workers in Portland, Oregon, who had bagged up all of her belongings in a homeless encampment sweep, she desperately...

Cashing In

Buying a presidency, it turns out, pays off. Tech billionaires who invested in President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign are...

How Texas Jails Paved the Way for Migrant Incarceration

This article was originally published by the Texas Observer, a nonprofit investigative news outlet and magazine. Sign up for...

‘War on Cartels’ and Harm Reduction in Peril

President-elect Donald Trump wants drug traffickers to be executed and could soon have the authority to make that...

“War on Cartels” and Harm Reduction in Peril

President-elect Donald Trump wants drug traffickers to be executed, and could soon have the authority to make that...

North Dakota’s Radical Plan To End Property Taxes

North Dakota may shake this country up in two weeks by ending one of the oldest taxes in America. Here’s the backstory and what...

Whistleblower: Trump Media Company Betrays ’America First’ by Outsourcing Jobs

This story was originally published by ProPublica. An internal whistleblower complaint at Trump Media calls for CEO Devin Nunes to be fired, alleging he has...

Privatizing the Building Blocks of Life

In 2019, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals developed an Ebola vaccine known as Inmazeb using a genetic sequence of the virus collected from a 28-year-old Ebola survivor...

RTX Busted for ‘Extraordinary’ Corruption

Indictments of arms contractors for corruption and malfeasance are not uncommon, but recently revealed cases of illegal conduct by RTX (formerly Raytheon) are extraordinary even by...

The Big Lie: The Sequel

With Election Day in sight, the Republican Party is busily laying the groundwork for the next “Big Lie.” After four years of perpetuating the...

Junk Science May Seal the Fate of Robert Roberson

This article was originally published by the Texas Observer, a nonprofit investigative news outlet and magazine. Sign up for its weekly newsletter, or follow on Facebook and X. Shortly after...