This Week’s Podcast
The Bitter Work Behind Sugar
On a vast plantation in the Dominican Republic, Haitian migrants still use machetes to harvest sugarcane that’s exported to the U.S. The workers are protesting poor working and living conditions.
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Fallujah: My Lost Hometown
The post-9/11 narrative about Iraq pushed me back to my hometown and into journalism.
The Writing Was on the Wall in Afghanistan Years Ago
The more time I spent in Afghanistan, the more clear it was that the benefits of the American occupation were visible only in Kabul and other big cities.
How Yemen Used the ‘War on Terror’ to Suit Its Needs
Twenty years, $850 million in U.S. military aid and nearly 400 drone strikes later, Yemen is still paying the price for being drawn into the “war on terror.”
Forever Wars
On 9/11, the U.S. swore to “never forget.” But who gets remembered? We hear from reporters on Afghanistan, Iraq and Yemen, where the aftermath of 9/11 is acutely felt two decades later.
For Decades, ICE Has Detained Immigrant Children Without Explanation. New Documents Pierce its Secrecy.
Records provide the most robust look yet at why and how children ended up in one of ICE’s rare youth detention facilities.
Fighting Fire With Fire
As climate change continues making wildfires worse, how do we learn to live with fire?
The Jail Tapes in the Dumpster
A murder conviction sent Myon Burrell to prison for life when he was a teenager. An investigative reporter dug into what seemed a hopeless case. What she found helped free him.
The secret bias hidden in mortgage-approval algorithms
Even accounting for factors lenders said would explain disparities, people of color are denied mortgages at significantly higher rates than White people.
For 20 years, I saw no peace
As the Taliban take over Kabul, an Afghan poet, a journalist fielding desperate phone calls and an American veteran reflect on the past and future of Afghanistan.