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In a Mississippi Jail, Inmates Became Weapons
Chris Mack has been locked up in Mississippi’s Rankin County Jail on and off since he was a teenager. In a lawsuit, he detailed a jailhouse assault that left him with broken ribs, a broken nose, and …
Published on 13 hours ago
Executions Are Rising in the US. This Reverend Witnesses Them.
More To The Story: About 2,100 people are on death row in America. Some have been there for decades, in part because executions have been on the decline in the US. But that’s changing. So far this ye…
Published on 3 days, 12 hours ago
The Deputies Who Tortured a Mississippi County
When Andrea Dettore-Murphy first moved to Rankin County, Mississippi, she didn’t believe the stories she heard about how brutal the sheriff’s department could be when pursuing suspected drug crimes. …
Published on 1 week ago
I Study Fascism. I’ve Already Fled America.
More To The Story: Jason Stanley isn’t afraid to use the F-word when talking about President Donald Trump. The author of How Fascism Works and Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Contro…
Published on 1 week, 3 days ago
An Atrocity of War Goes Unpunished
In November 2005, a group of US Marines killed 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq. The case against them became one of the most high-profile war crimes prosecutions in US history—but then it fell apart. O…
Published on 2 weeks ago
America Had a Black President. Then Came the Whitelash.
More To The Story: America in these last 10 years has experienced generational political upheaval, clashes over race and identity, and a battle over the very direction of the country itself. Few writ…
Published on 2 weeks, 3 days ago
A Midnight Phone Call. A Missing Movie. Decades of Questions.
Here at the Center for Investigative Reporting, we excel at finding things: government documents, contact information, the misdeeds people have tried to hide. It’s serious work that we use for seriou…
Published on 3 weeks ago
Al Letson at No Kings: Hope, Fury, and Inflatables
More To The Story: On October 18, roughly 2,700 No Kings demonstrations took place around the US. Organizers estimated that 7 million protesters came out to denounce what they described as America’s …
Published on 3 weeks, 3 days ago
Exposing a Global Surveillance Empire
In June, a sharp-suited Austrian executive from a global surveillance company told a prospective client that he could “go to prison” for organizing the deal they were discussing. But the conversation…
Published on 4 weeks ago
How a Climate Doomsayer Became an Unexpected Optimist
More To The Story: Bill McKibben isn’t known for his rosy outlook on climate change. Back in 1989, the environmentalist wrote The End of Nature, which is considered the first mainstream book warning …
Published on 1 month ago