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 ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Three months into the global pandemic, Bill Gates has displaced George Soros as the chief bogeyman of the right. A Christian Right broadcaster, Brannon Howse of “Worldview Watch,” warned that Gates ...

Maria Fallon Romo grew up in a family that talked politics at the dinner table. At 53, the North Dakota special education teacher has been an active voter for about 30 years and, until recently, had ...

On June 14, 2016, several agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement loaded a van with 2,000 pounds of marijuana, drove it to a busy shopping center in Chula Vista, California, and parked it ...

This story was published in partnership with The Assembly, a digital-first magazine about power and place in North Carolina. When Tammy Crowder’s phone rang late one evening in February 2018, her ...

Over the course of the coronavirus pandemic, e-commerce surged as lockdowns and social distancing confined many Americans to their homes. Now, even as many restrictions have been lifted, online ...

This story is part of the Inside/Out Journalism Project by Type Investigations, which works with incarcerated reporters to produce ambitious, feature-length investigations, with support from the ...