Ottavia Spaggiari is an award-winning investigative journalist and long-form writer. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, ...

In Illinois, immigrants have lost thousands of dollars to notarios offering legal assistance they’re not qualified to provide—as well as other impostors. Nationally, the figure is at least $1.2 ...

Chicago. She is the lead reporter and Immigration Project Editor at South Side Weekly and a contributor to The Guardian. Her reporting focuses on immigration, with coverage that spans federal raids, ...

A growing number of scholars, lawyers, and lawmakers are calling for a reassessment of how rap lyrics are used in court. Jaeah LeeThe New York Times March 30, 2022 Tommy Munsdwell Canady was in middle ...

The memories come to her in fragments. The bed creaking late at night after one of her brothers snuck into her room and pulled her to the edge of her mattress. Her underwear shoved to the side as his ...

On August 24, the National Park Service closed more than half of the only road that runs through Denali National Park, one of Alaska’s top tourist destinations. The proximate cause was a landslide ...

In April, Robin Lundstrum, a Republican lawmaker in the Arkansas House of Representatives, traveled to Missouri to testify in support of a bill that would ban doctors from providing or referring ...

When Cassidy Green learned that she was pregnant, she and her husband didn’t discuss cribs, co-sleeping, or even diapers. Instead, they worried about more basic and immediate challenges, like whether ...

This story was co-produced by Type Investigations, where Irene Romulo is an Ida B. Wells fellow; Cicero Independiente; and Injustice Watch. Illustrations by Veronica Martínez. Roberto is a 17-year-old ...

The brittle wooden floors creak as we climb the stairs to the long room that served as a dormitory for Ojibwe girls at St. Mary’s Mission School on the Red Lake Indian Reservation in Minnesota. “My ...

Hundreds of children across the U.S. have been sent into controversial treatment programs where they’re cut off from the parent they trust and forced to live with the one they fear. This investigation ...

Rita De Anda has spent decades in prison waiting for a chance at parole. Two years ago, when the then-56-year-old learned it might come about a decade earlier than she expected, De Anda was overjoyed.