President Donald Trump says he’ll bring back coal. But in Wyoming, where coal was king, it doesn’t look like a comeback.
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Posted inAccountability, The Trump Era
Between Life and Death
In southern Arizona, the promise of a border wall has humanitarian activists concerned it could lead to more deaths.
Posted inAccountability, The Trump Era
A Divided Road
Two friends felt inspired by the election to leave their home, travel the country by van and provide free legal aid to immigrants.
Posted inAccountability, The Trump Era
Refuge in the Mountain State
Last year, religious leaders in West Virginia were excited to welcome 100 refugees. Then came the controversial travel ban.
Posted inAll Work. No Pay., Inequality
Recovering from Rehab
Brad McGahey was sentenced to a year in prison for buying a stolen horse trailer. But when he went before a judge, he was sent to CAAIR instead.
Posted inAnd Justice for Some, Inequality
Before Prison
Oklahoma incarcerates 151 out of every 100,000 women, often given harsh sentences for nonviolent drug crimes.
Posted inAccountability, Contract with Danger
A Contract with Danger
Since 2008, major private shipbuilders have earned more than $100 billion in federal contracts despite having been cited for serious safety lapses that have endangered, injured and killed workers.
Posted inAccountability, Health Care
Is Egg Donation Safe?
Dr. Jennifer Schneider lost her 31-year-old daughter to colon cancer in 2003. She wonders whether there was a link between her daughter being a three-time egg donor and the tumors found on her ovaries and abdomen.
Posted inChasing Energy, Sustainability
Betting on Oil, Paying with Land
Fort McKay First Nation, a reservation in northern Canada, is home to nearly 400 Cree, Dene and other indigenous people. In the 1950s and ‘60s, petroleum operations started to surround the community, extracting oil from the nearby tar sands.
Posted inChasing Energy, Sustainability
Plowing Through Sacred Sites
In the middle of the night in fall 2013, California Department of Transportation workers dug into the earth to construct a new highway bypass in Willits. According to federal law, the local Pomo people had a right to send tribal monitors there, but they allegedly were barred from the nighttime construction.