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- Roe v. Wade Was Lost in 1992
- How "undue burden" — a concept nurtured by anti-abortion groups and championed by the first woman on the Supreme Court — has eroded the right to choose.
- - Meaghan Winter
  - Slate Magazine
  - Mar 28, 2016
- Death and Politics
- Did a vicious campaign drive a candidate to suicide?
- - Andy Kroll
  - Rolling Stone
  - Feb 26, 2016

- The Education of Edwin Raymond
- He thought he could change the New York Police Department from the inside. He wound up the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit.
- - Saki Knafo
  - New York Times Magazine
  - Feb 18, 2016
- Fast, Precise, and Deadly
- How police use a dangerous anti-terrorism tactic to end pursuits.
- - Shaun Raviv
  - The Intercept
  - Feb 11, 2016

- I Was a Super Bowl Concession Worker
- What it's like making less than $13 an hour to serve $13 beers at one of the biggest games on Earth.
- - Gabriel Thompson
  - Slate Magazine
  - Feb 9, 2016
- Sick on the Inside
- Behind bars in immigrant-only prisons.
- - Seth Freed Wessler
  - Reveal
  - Feb 6, 2016

- Separate, Unequal, and Deadly
- How the US let dozens of immigrants die in segregated, privatized prisons.
- - Seth Freed Wessler
  - The Nation
  - Jan 27, 2016
- Ted Cruz's Howitzer
- Equal parts drill sergeant, data junkie, brawler, and entrepreneur, Jeff Roe will do anything to win.
- - Andy Kroll
  - New Republic
  - Jan 20, 2016

- Stretched Thin
- Personal trainers are frequently overworked, undertrained, and underpaid by their gyms.
- - James Hannaham
  - Slate Magazine
  - Jan 6, 2016
- 'I Felt Set Up'
- "Medical" pregnancy centers are starting to look more like abortion clinics.
- - Meaghan Winter
  - Cosmopolitan
  - Dec 17, 2015

- Irradiated
- The hidden legacy of 70 years of atomic weaponry: at least 33,480 Americans dead.
- - Rob Hotakainen, Lindsay Wise, Frank Matt and Samantha Ehlinger
  - McClatchy DC
  - Dec 11, 2015
- Marco Rubio's Billionaire Backers
- The freshman senator has gone beyond other candidates in tailoring a foreign-policy platform that appeals to moneyed hawks.
- - Eli Clifton
  - The Nation
  - Dec 11, 2015

- The Kissing Bug Disease
- Does the World Health Organization's pay-to-play regulatory system inhibit innovation?
- - Jean Friedman-Rudovsky
  - Al Jazeera America
  - Dec 9, 2015
- Forced Meds at the Bellevue ER
- Doctors in Bellevue's psychiatric emergency room routinely order forced injections to sedate patients who refuse to have blood drawn
- - Ben Hattem
  - City Limits
  - Dec 8, 2015

Announcing the Ida B. Wells Fellowship
The new program aims to promote diversity in journalism and will provide four reporters with fellowships to create their first substantial pieces of investigative journalism.

Seth Freed Wessler
Family Sues Private-Prison Operator Over Deaths at Immigrant-Only Facilities
An investigation found dozens of questionable deaths related to cost cutting in privatized federal prisons.

Sarah Posner
More Plaintiffs Join Sexual Abuse Case Against Evangelical Ministry
A lawsuit against evangelist Bill Gothard and the Institute in Basic Life Principles charges that the organization's board covered up decades of sexual harassment and abuse.

The Backstory: Frank Matt
Jaime Longoria talks to Frank Matt about finding and organizing data of more than 107,000 former nuclear weapons workers in the US who have been diagnosed with cancers and other diseases.

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