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At the Border in 2024
Mar 25, 2024 A decade of anti-immigrant rhetoric and unstable, post-pandemic conditions in the Global South have coalesced into a multibillion-dollar, election-year battle to keep poor people in Latin America from accessing the United States. This Dig series seeks to explore: What is it like to traverse this landscape as a migrant, and what would it look like if we opened it all up?
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A Slow-Rolling Disaster in Fracking Country
Dec 7, 2023 Ex-employees at “West Virginia’s Chernobyl” speak out on lethal cancers, regulatory failure and contaminated drinking water.
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Rojava’s Improvised Revolution
Oct 9, 2023 How the Middle East’s most progressive society survives in the face of catastrophe.
Investigative Stories
Inside West Virginia’s Chernobyl
Sep 18, 2023 The radioactive dangers of oilfield waste have long been known by the oil and gas industry.2024 Headliner Award: Third Place, Online Investigative Reporting for Digital-Only Website
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The Farce of Microsoft’s Anti-Racism and the Capture of Academia
Apr 17, 2023 In recent years, most large tech corporations have begun pushing anti-racism public relations and touting their donations to Black causes. There is no company more steeped or skilled in this practice than the elder of the group, Microsoft. By deploying fleets of flacks, messaging professionals and hired intellectuals, the company has managed to maintain a pristine image as a “moral leader” of Big Tech, while avoiding and deflecting attention from its deep and sordid history of collaboration with police, prisons, intelligence agencies and militaries.
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Eviction on the Installment Plan
Feb 27, 2023 Across the country, people and families priced out of the real estate market are turning to temporary housing built to shelter traveling workers.
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The Deadly Battle Over Land and Water in Honduras
Feb 17, 2023 In rural Honduras, the Guapinol water defenders movement struggles against devastating industrial construction and increasingly heavily armed private security and paramilitary groups.
Investigative Stories
Growing List of Fracking Concerns Now Includes Radioactivity
Jan 9, 2023 Industry documents and new research suggests the natural gas pipeline system emits significant amounts of radioactivity.
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Mexico’s War Against Migrants
Nov 14, 2022 Andrés Manuel López Obrador campaigned on a promise to humanize migrant policy in Mexico and Central America. What happened? Dawn Paley investigates.2023 Southern California Journalism Award: First Place, Foreign Correspondents Based in Southern California. Print, radio, TV or online