Investigations

Welfare: Where Are They Now?

Sarah Karp investigates the state of welfare in Chicago: thousands are now off the welfare system because they can’t navigate the new rules or have trouble getting onto welfare.

Sarah KarpChicago Public RadioAugust 22, 2006

InvestigationPolitics

Watching What You Say

Shorrock reports that AT&T, Sprint, MCI and other telecommunications giants are cooperating with the National Security Agency’s warrantless surveillance program.

Tim ShorrockThe NationMarch 20, 2006

InvestigationBusiness, Immigration, Politics

Hotel U.S.A.

The government is planning on building detention and relocation centers with 40,000 beds and barracks for an undetermined “immigration emergency” — courtesy Kellogg, Brown and Root.

Joseph RicheyAlterNetMarch 14, 2006

InvestigationJustice

Cult of Character

The “secular” Character Training Institute is a front for evangelist Bill Gothard’s reconstructionist Christian vision, trying to change America one school, one police force, one city at a time.

Silja TalviIn These TimesJanuary 9, 2006

InvestigationWorld

The Question of Kurdistan

The Kurds have almost no natural resources and suffer from a culture of corruption. But their call for autonomy is a serious threat to the building of a united Iraq.

Christian ParentiThe NationNovember 14, 2005

InvestigationHealth, Politics

As Medicaid payments to nursing homes stagnate, regulation is weakened, and a Texas law capping damages for pain and suffering in all medical malpractice suits is enacted, the death of Noe Martinez Sr. reveals a coming crisis in the nursing home industry.

Dave MannThe Texas ObserverSeptember 22, 2005