Brett Meyers, Author at Reveal

Sustainability

Drilling Down on Fossil Fuels and Climate Change

by Elizabeth Shogren, Jonathan Jones, Emily Schwing, Taki Telonidis, Brett Meyers, Jim Briggs, Steven Rascón, Fernando Arruda, Kathryn Styer Martínez, Al Letson, Katharine Mieszkowski, D. Victoria Baranetsky and Nikki Frick January 7, 2023January 23, 2023

The U.S. has promised to move away from fossil fuels, but the natural gas industry is booming.

A portrait of Philadelphia police detective Philip Nordo

Accountability

The Suspect Detective

by Najib Aminy, Jenny Casas, Amy Mostafa, Nikki Frick, Sarah Mirk, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Steven Rascón, Kathryn Styer Martínez, Taki Telonidis, Brett Meyers and Al Letson December 17, 2022February 27, 2023

A Philadelphia homicide detective on the rise abused his power in bizarre and extreme ways. How did he get away with it for so long?

Accountability

The Bitter Work Behind Sugar

by Sandy Tolan, Euclides Cordero Nuel, Michael Montgomery, Taki Telonidis, Amy Mostafa, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Steven Rascón, Kathryn Styer Martínez, Claire Mullen, Brett Meyers and Al Letson December 3, 2022December 7, 2022

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.

Climate Change

Climate Makers and Takers

by Sarah Mirk, Taki Telonidis, Katharine Mieszkowski, Amy Mostafa, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Kathryn Styer Martínez, Steven Rascón, Brett Meyers and Al Letson November 5, 2022November 23, 2022

As sea levels rise, two communities in Nigeria are adapting in radically different ways.

A young woman rides a horse past a sign that reads "we are the grandchildren of the Lakota you weren't able to remove."

Accountability

Buried Secrets: America’s Indian Boarding Schools Part 2

by Michael I Schiller, Taki Telonidis, Kathryn Styer Martínez, Nikki Frick, Soo Oh, Amy Mostafa, Sarah Mirk, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Claire Mullen, Brett Meyers and Al Letson October 22, 2022October 25, 2022

A Catholic boarding school on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is seeking forgiveness for its troubled history. But school survivors want justice first.

A photo collage shows two anti-abortion protesters holding signs that say "the post-roe generation" and "dismantle roe" in front of birth control pills

Reproductive Rights

The Long Campaign to Turn Birth Control Into the New Abortion

by Amy Mostafa, Kiera Butler, Katharine Mieszkowski, Cynthia Rodriguez, Nikki Frick, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Nina Martin, Grace Oldham, Kathryn Styer Martínez, Claire Mullen, Brett Meyers and Taki Telonidis October 8, 2022October 10, 2022

Now that the fall of Roe v. Wade has ended the constitutional right to abortion, many in the religious right have a new goal: undermining trust in, and limiting access to, hormonal contraception – including the pill.