The federal government is quietly expanding its use of “tender age” shelters for migrant kids. We’ll tell you what we know.
Aaron Sankin
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Aaron Sankin is a reporter for Reveal covering online extremism, election administration and technology policy. Before joining Reveal, he was a founding editor of The Huffington Post's San Francisco vertical and a senior staff writer on The Daily Dot's politics team. His work has appeared in The Washington Post, Salon, Time, The Motley Fool, Mashable, Business Insider, San Francisco magazine and The Onion. A San Francisco Bay Area native, Sankin studied history and sociology at Rice University. His work at The Daily Dot was a finalist in Digiday's 2015 publisher of the year award, and a story he wrote about a Midwestern family being terrorized by a teenage hacker was labeled by The Atlantic as an essential piece of journalism for 2015. Sankin is based in Seattle.
Posted inAccountability, The Trump Era
Pizzagate: A slice of fake news
This week, Reveal teams up with The Investigative Fund and Rolling Stone to dissect Pizzagate and the violence it inspired.
Posted inReligion
2 former Jesuit officials resign from Gonzaga after revelations about abusive priests on campus
Both previously held leadership roles in the Jesuits’ Oregon Province while it sent Jesuits accused of sexual abuse to live in a home on campus.
Posted inAccountability
These priests abused in Native villages for years. They retired on Gonzaga’s campus
Gonzaga University served as a retirement repository for Jesuit priests accused of sexual abuse in Alaska Native villages and on Indian reservations.
Posted inHate, The Hate Report
The Hate Report: Changes are coming to how we report on hate
The Hate Report isn’t going to be weekly anymore, so we can focus even more on original reporting.
Posted inHate, The Hate Report
The Hate Report: What white nationalists think about Tucker Carlson
We were curious to see whether the hardcore white nationalists on the web viewed Carlson as their messenger to the broader public.
Posted inAccountability, Hate, The Hate Report
The Hate Report: Weird that this keeps happening, right?
A running tally of the connections between GOP candidates and white nationalism.
Posted inVoting
Texas’ voter ID law is confusing voters into disenfranchising themselves
Will it happen again?
Posted inThe Hate Report
The Hate Report: Richard Spencer’s wife accuses him of abuse
In divorce proceedings, the white supremacist leader is accused of physically assaulting his wife.
Posted inAccountability, Cybersecurity, National Security
Who gets to vote?
The 2018 Georgia governor’s race has become a battleground for many of America’s most pressing concerns about democracy.