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.
Accountability
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.
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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.
Baseball strikes out
Baseball’s home run surge in the late ’90s and early 2000s was fueled by anabolic steroids. But fans didn’t want to hear the difficult truth about their heroes – and Major League Baseball refused to deal with a growing scandal.
The ticket trap
Sports, theater and concert fans are excited venues are opening up again. So are clever ticket sellers who cash in on unsuspecting customers.
Weapons with minds of their own
The future of warfare is seen in computer algorithms that enable weapons to decide what to hit – and therefore whom to kill.
Planning to buy tickets to a live event? Read this first.
As the live events industry reopens, a perfect storm for deception is brewing.
Monumental lies
Statues celebrating Confederates and conquistadors keep old myths alive, with stories of “benevolent slave owners,” heroic colonizers and enslaved people “contented with their lot.”
Viral lies
From wild anti-vaccine conspiracy theories to “Stop the Steal” and QAnon, we examine how misinformation swiftly spreads online – and the lives it disrupts.