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Anjali Kamat

Senior Reporter

Anjali Kamat was a senior reporter at Reveal until summer 2022. She previously was an investigative reporter at WNYC, a correspondent and producer for Al Jazeera's current affairs documentary program "Fault Lines," and a producer, correspondent and host at Democracy Now! She's reported on global uprisings and wars, including the 2011 Arab Spring, and has investigated Wall Street's ties to predatory subprime auto loans, the Trump Organization's business deals in India, exploitation in Bangladeshi garment factories serving major U.S. brands, the trafficking of contract workers on U.S. military bases in Afghanistan and police impunity in Baltimore. Her work has won several major awards, including a duPont Award, multiple Emmy nominations and National Headliner Awards, an Overseas Press Club Award, a Peabody Award, and a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. Kamat grew up in Chennai, India, and is based in New York.

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Feurat Alani and his sister sit atop a car parked on the banks of a river. Three uncles stand around them.
Posted inAccountability

Forever Wars

Portrait of steven rascón by Kevin Sullivan, Fernando Arruda, Jim Briggs, Amy Mostafa, Steven Rascón, Claire Mullen, Sarah Mirk, Al Letson, Najib Aminy, Cynthia Rodriguez, Brett Myers and Anjali Kamat September 11, 2021September 11, 2023

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.

Posted inAccountability

For 20 years, I saw no peace

Brett Simpson portrait by Najib Aminy, Stan Alcorn, Anjali Kamat, Ike Sriskandarajah, Brett Simpson, Brett Myers, Taki Telonidis, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Sarah Mirk, Amy Mostafa, Kevin Sullivan and Al Letson August 21, 2021August 20, 2021

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.

Kamala Harris, in a long blue coat, smiles as she holds up her hand to be sworn in as Vice President. Behind her is the US Capitol, decorated with American flags. Justice Sonia Sotomayor stands several feet away, dressed in her judges robe and swearing Harris in.
Posted inAccountability

A transfer of power

Brett Simpson portraitPortrait of Chris Jones by Kevin Sullivan, Taki Telonidis, Michael Montgomery, Fernando Arruda, Jim Briggs, Brett Simpson, Brett Myers, Najib Aminy, Elizabeth Shogren, Al Letson, Chris Harland-Dunaway, Jonathan Jones, Anjali Kamat, Amy Mostafa and Chris Jones January 23, 2021July 1, 2021

As the nation swears in President Joe Biden, we look at the long shadow cast by the forces that brought Donald Trump to power.

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Trump Supporters Hold "Stop The Steal" Rally In DC Amid Ratification Of Presidential Election
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Democracy under siege

Brett Simpson portrait by Kevin Sullivan, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Al Letson, Brett Simpson, Anjali Kamat, Katharine Mieszkowski, Najib Aminy, Chris Harland-Dunaway, Michael Montgomery, Jen Chien, Taki Telonidis and Amy Mostafa January 9, 2021July 1, 2021

A mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, aiming to block the certification of Joe Biden’s election victory. How did we get here?

Melquan Barnett sits just inside the doorway to a house.
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‘Go after the troublemakers’

by Anjali Kamat November 1, 2020June 30, 2021

Inside the federal government’s unprecedented campaign to prosecute Black Lives Matter protesters.

A red and black illustration shows protester reflected in the visor of a police officer's riot gear helmet
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Stopping a movement

Brett Simpson portrait by Anjali Kamat, Kevin Sullivan, Amy Mostafa, Brett Simpson, Najib Aminy, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Stan Alcorn and Patrick Michels October 31, 2020July 1, 2021

Millions of Americans have protested racism and police brutality. The federal government cracked down, filing charges against protesters in 31 states.

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‘No matter what we did, we just couldn’t catch up.’

by Anjali Kamat, Thi Bui, Sarah Mirk and Amanda Pike August 31, 2020August 30, 2023

An ER doctor in New York City shares his experience amid the COVID-19 pandemic: “I don’t think we’ve had time to process what’s happened to us.”

Posted inIn/Vulnerable

‘I have to be out there. They’re killing us.’

by Anjali Kamat, Thi Bui, Sarah Mirk and Amanda Pike August 3, 2020June 30, 2021

“Even though I don’t wanna die from COVID-19, I’d rather die fighting for a cause trying to save people’s lives.”

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