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.
Accountability
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.
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.
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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.
Minor violations
Kids who cross the border alone are held in government-funded shelters. When they misbehave, staff sometimes call police. And kids are getting arrested, jailed – sometimes even tased.
Since when is being a teenager a crime?
A comic explores two diverging paths of juvenile justice in Wyoming and South Dakota.
Juvenile (in)justice
Wyoming locks up kids at one of the highest rates in the nation. A mother tells the story of how her daughter’s fight snowballed into incarceration and tragedy.
Eviction moratoriums didn’t stop judges in one Ohio city from ousting hundreds from their homes
Tenants were evicted even when landlords didn’t follow the publicly stated rules.
The teen reporter, the evictions and the church
Three stories from local reporters who uncovered injustice and inequality in their hometowns, from an Ohio eviction crisis to Kentucky state police training materials that quoted Adolf Hitler.
Into the COVID ICU
Dr. Paloma Marin-Nevarez graduated in the middle of the pandemic. We follow the rookie doctor through her first months working on the front lines.