InvestigationBusiness, Politics Rick Scott Profits off the Uninsured A probe into the chain of profitable clinics founded by Rick Scott, the health care reform nemesis who helped mobilize protesters to disrupt those infamous town hall meetings. Part one of two. Tristram KortenSalon.comSeptember 30, 2009
InvestigationPolitics, World The American Leviathan How the Pentagon is asserting new control over US foreign policy with its own vast programs of foreign aid and “military operations other than war.” Stephen GlainThe NationSeptember 28, 2009
InvestigationJustice Surrogacy: Wombs for Rent Young women are routinely exploited by brokers and agencies in the highly unregulated American market for surrogate pregnancies. Habiba Nosheen & Hilke SchellmannNOW on PBSSeptember 18, 2009
InvestigationJustice Shotgun Adoption The spread of highly questionable practices — including coercion of destitute pregnant women — in the anti-abortion movement’s “crisis counseling” centers. Kathryn JoyceThe NationSeptember 14, 2009
InvestigationBusiness There Goes the Neighborhood Predatory financial speculators return to the battered housing market, warehousing cheap property and damaging working-class communities. Alyssa KatzThe American ProspectSeptember 10, 2009
InvestigationBusiness, Environment, World Fiji Water: Spin the Bottle A close look behind the cool image of Fiji Water, a celebrated symbol of purity that depends for its profits on environmental plunder and a military dictatorship. Plus a special animated video. Anna LenzerMother JonesSeptember 1, 2009
InvestigationWorld The Sheik Down How American commanders have used Iraq’s Awakening Councils to pay millions of dollars in thinly disguised bribes to Sunni sheikhs. Shane BauerMother JonesSeptember 1, 2009
InvestigationBusiness How Real Estate Owns Us The devastating economic and social consequences of the American obsession with home ownership during the past decade. Alyssa KatzNext American CitySeptember 1, 2009
InvestigationImmigration El Muro de los Lamentos The high cost and low security of the Secure Border Initiative, Boeing’s high-tech “superfence” across the Mexican border. Joseph RicheyExpansión (Mexico)September 1, 2009
InvestigationBusiness Opportunity Knocks Miami, Florida, number four in foreclosures among American cities, has a 70,000-person wait list for public housing. So activist Max Rameau restores evicted families to their homes. Paul ReyesVirginia Quarterly ReviewSeptember 1, 2009