Eight people have been killed along the border in the past two years. Did US border agents use excessive force in an effort to curb illegal immigration?
Sweatshop labor is back with a vengeance: the privatization of prisons in recent years has meant the creation of a small army of workers too coerced and right-less to complain.
The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute has extended its deadline for the I.F. Stone Award for emerging journalists — the new deadline is May 25, 2012.
On June 7, 2010, Sergio Adrian Hernandez Guereca, age 15, was shot and killed by US Border Patrol agent Jesus Mesa Jr. According to an FBI spokeswoman, Andrea Simmons, who issued a report quickly after the incident, "Subjects surrounded the agent and continued to throw rocks at him. The agent...
Blogger John Robinson saw a tweet about North Carolina News & Observer editor John Drescher on the astronomical cost of investigative journalism — $150,000-$200,000 by some estimations...
What makes an average citizen — a soldier, a respected professional, a manager — break from their assigned duty and endanger their career, reputation, or life, to do what they feel is right? What is it that separates doers and dissenters in...