Accountability Archives - Page 9 of 107

An illustration shows a woman with a facemask reading 2020 holding up her ballot. Behind her, in a blue and purple swirl of colors, are ballots, voters, and other figures.

United, we’re not

by Kevin Sullivan, Najib Aminy, Laura Starecheski, Brett Simpson, Brett Myers, Fernando Arruda, Jim Briggs, Emily Harris, Amy Mostafa, Al Letson, Taki Telonidis, Michael Montgomery, Matt Thompson, Jen Chien, Patrick Michels, Laura C. Morel, Stan Alcorn, Jennifer Gollan, Katharine Mieszkowski, Aura Bogado, Elizabeth Shogren, Andy Donohue, Esther Kaplan, Sumi Aggarwal and Claire Mullen November 14, 2020July 1, 2021

Where does America go from here? We talk with an asylum-seeking family, Georgia women on abortion and West Virginians on the impact of Black Lives Matter.

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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.

An illustration depicts a ballot on fire, which morphs into a building. A group of white men with guns stand outside the burning building.

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Remembering a White supremacist coup

by Kevin Sullivan, Najib Aminy, Amy Mostafa, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Katharine Mieszkowski, Will Carless, Taki Telonidis, Esther Kaplan, Brett Simpson and Al Letson October 24, 2020July 1, 2021

Reveal looks back to a nearly forgotten 1898 election in North Carolina. A coup d’etat gave birth to much of the structural racism that exists today.

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Packages of ground beef fill a grocery store shelf.

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Conflict beef from Nicaragua feeds US market amid pandemic

by Nathan Halverson October 21, 2020June 30, 2021

Nicaraguan beef, raised on lands violently stolen from Indigenous communities, is making its way into American grocery stores.

A mural on an orange wall depicts portraits of journalist Halla Bakarat and her mom.

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An American murder in Istanbul: Justice for Halla

by Kevin Sullivan, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Najib Aminy, Amy Mostafa, Al Letson, Chris Harland-Dunaway, Taki Telonidis, Aaron Glantz and Brett Simpson October 10, 2020July 1, 2021

An American journalist and her mom are found murdered in Istanbul. Friends and family say the police did not solve the crime.

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An elections worker wears a hazmat suit as they sit next to a sign saying VOTE.

Accountability, Voting

Whose vote will count?

by Jim Briggs, Kevin Sullivan, Fernando Arruda, Byard Duncan, Najib Aminy, Amy Mostafa, Laura Starecheski, Ike Sriskandarajah, Sumi Aggarwal, Brett Myers, David Rodriguez and Al Letson October 3, 2020July 1, 2021

From problems with vote-by-mail systems to voter suppression, we examine the potential for chaos in the 2020 elections.

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Furniture and personal items are haphazardly strewn in front of a house. The home's windows are boarded up.

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A lesson from the last recession becomes California law

by Aaron Glantz September 29, 2020June 30, 2021

Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a bill intended to prevent corporate buyers from bulk-purchasing foreclosed homes, as happened in the last recession.

COVID-19, Health Care, Prisons

COVID-19 in confinement

by Elizabeth Shogren, Michael Montgomery, Taki Telonidis, Laura Starecheski, Brett Myers, Soo Oh, Fernando Arruda, Jim Briggs, Kevin Sullivan, Amy Mostafa, Najib Aminy and Al Letson September 19, 2020July 1, 2021

Self-isolation may protect us from COVID-19, but what if you’re forced to live with strangers? This week, we look at nursing homes and prisons.

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Photo illustration of a split image, with Jimmy Morales and Donald Trump in the background on the left side and Ivan Velasquez and Joe Biden on the right side. The left side has a red overlay and the right side has a blue overlay.

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How Donald Trump took down the Robert Mueller of Latin America

by Aaron Glantz and Anayansi Diaz-Cortes September 5, 2020June 30, 2021

Two television stars turned presidents pledged to drain the swamp. Then they joined forces to kill a powerful anti-corruption commission in Guatemala.