Investigation

Investigation

Hearing: New Haven Testifies On Its Mold Crisis

Less than two months after an In These Times investigation on the nation’s unrecognized mold health care crisis, one city at its center shows signs of taking action.

Thomas Birmingham

InvestigationPolitics

Trump's Greenland Problem

As the president-elect's call to buy—or take—a sovereign country moves from punchline to possibility, a look at the real stakes of the Arctic’s mounting cold war.

Adam Federman

FeatureInvestigation

The New College Gambit

The right-wing takeover of Florida’s public honors college blurs the line between tragedy and farce, but attacks on universities are about to get worse.

Kathryn Joyce

FeatureInvestigation

As Corporate Landlords Spread, a Mold Epidemic Takes Root

Chronic mold has become an epidemic as severe as lead paint, but neither cities nor landlords are taking responsibility.

Thomas Birmingham

LaborPalestineInvestigation

U.S. Jewish Institutions Are Purging Their Staffs of Anti-Zionists

A months-long investigation found even the smallest hints of dissent are often met with unemployment.

Shane Burley

FeatureInvestigation

The Treacherous Paths Out of Modi's India

The last thing Sukhwinder Singh remembered was crossing through knee-deep water near the U.S.-Mexico border wall in Arizona. When he finally awoke, he learned that his passage to the land of opportunity had cost him an arm and both legs.

Makepeace Sitlhou

InvestigationGoodman InstituteEn Español

Los escuadrones de muerte persiguiendo a los defensores del medio ambiente

Por todo el mundo, las fuerzas gubernamentales atacan a los activistas medioambientales con impunidad—y con el apoyo de Estados Unidos.

Alessandra Bergamin

InvestigationGoodman Institute

The Death Squads Hunting Environmental Defenders

Around the world, government forces regularly attack environmental activists with impunity—and U.S. support.

Alessandra Bergamin

PalestineInvestigation

The Corporate Power Brokers Behind AIPAC’s War on the Squad

An In These Times investigation reveals the individuals behind AIPAC's election war chest: nearly 60% are CEOs and other top executives at the country's largest corporations.

Branko Marcetic

FeaturePalestineInvestigationGoodman Institute

Hindu Nationalists Are Taking Notes—and Tech Support—From the Israeli Right

The state of Assam has become a laboratory of ethnonationalism, with warning signs of genocide ahead.

Ankur Singh

LaborFeatureInvestigation

Lawsuit: Alabama Is Denying Prisoners Parole to Lease Their Labor to Meatpackers, McDonalds

No parole if you’re still profitable.

Kim Kelly

InvestigationGoodman Institute

House Bill Would Hide Billions More Dollars in U.S. Weapons Sales

The proposed notification thresholds would have shielded $635 million in sales from congressional oversight in 2023 alone.

Rosie Khan, Janet Abou-Elias, Lillian Mauldin and Women for Weapons Trade Transparency

Investigation

As Fentanyl Overdoses Soar, LA City Crews Toss State-Funded Narcan from Encampments

“After sweeps, late at night when there’s no providers here, when there’s no one to give the Narcan to people, people are running up and down the street screaming, begging for Narcan.”

Jack Ross

FeatureInvestigationGoodman Institute

More Than a Year After Mississippi Forced Her To Give Birth, It Still Hasn’t Offered Any Extra Help

Since we first profiled her, Lationna has returned to work, her son Kingsley is crawling—and the family is still just treading water.

Bryce Covert

Investigation

The White House is Working Overtime to Obscure Weapons Sales to Israel. The Senate Is Aiding and Abetting Them.

Picking up White House language, the Senate supplemental bill would conceal weapons sales from Congress and the American people.

Janet Abou-Elias, Lillian Mauldin and Women for Weapons Trade Transparency

Investigation

How Israel Got an Endless Supply of U.S.-Made Smart Bombs

Nearly three years ago, Congress gave Israel a pass to stockpile precision-guided bombs “without regard to annual limits.” An inside source confirms that even more have been transferred since October 7.

Ari Tolany, Lillian Mauldin, Janet Abou-Elias and Women for Weapons Trade Transparency

FeatureInvestigationGoodman Institute

The New Cold War in the Arctic

Amid rising geopolitical tensions, the U.S. is expanding its military presence in Greenland, increasing the risk of something going very wrong.

Adam Federman

FeatureInvestigationGoodman Institute

How Europe Outsourced Border Enforcement to Africa

The European Union is militarizing Africa's internal borders to curb migration, with little regard for human rights.

Andrei Popoviciu

FeatureInvestigationGoodman InstituteEn Español

Europa Está Externalizando su Represión Transfronteriza a África

La Unión Europea está militarizando las fronteras internas de África para frenar la migración.

Andrei Popoviciu

FeatureInvestigationGoodman Institute

What It's Like to Have an Abortion Denied by Dobbs

Dobbs will throw many lives into disarray. Lationna Halbert’s is one of the first.

Bryce Covert

Cover StoryInvestigationGoodman Institute

The Young Miners Dying of “An Old Man’s Disease”

Black lung is completely preventable. And it's on the rise again.

Kim Kelly

Rural AmericaInvestigationGoodman Institute

The Vail-ification of the West

In part two of our series, we visit the Colorado ski towns at the extreme edge of rural gentrification.

Joseph Bullington

Rural AmericaInvestigationGoodman InstituteEn Español

Los Trabajadores en Vail no Pueden Darse el Lujo de Vivir Ahí

En la segunda parte de nuestra serie, visitamos las ciudades de esquí de Colorado a borde de la gentrificación rural.

Joseph Bullington

Rural AmericaInvestigationGoodman Institute

In Montana, an Avalanche of Wealth Is Displacing Workers

The people who feed, clothe and clean up after the West’s rich newcomers can’t afford to live alongside them.

Joseph Bullington