Some news stories require greater investments of time to report, with journalists conducting exhaustive investigations using data, public and private records and interviews with a host of sources. Pulitzer Center grantee stories tagged with “Investigative” feature in-depth reporting that delves deeply into serious issues. Use the Pulitzer Center Lesson Builder to find and create lesson plans on investigative journalism.
Financial Times journalists Tom Burgis, Michael Peel and Pilita Clark traveled to Ethiopia, Myanmar and Indonesia to look at disputes over the sale and ownership of land.
Michael Peel reports from Myanmar where the end of dictatorship has unleashed a struggle over land.
Pilita Clark follows a Norwegian minister on a mission to end deforestation in Indonesia.
Young voters will play a key role in the outcome of Iran's parliamentary elections
The Pentagon is preparing for an extensive—and expensive—modernization of the country’s half-century-old land, air, and sea-based nuclear weapons. But how necessary is the nuclear triad today?
The military commander of America’s nuclear arsenal, Admiral Cecil Haney, says the triad's combination of nuclear arms makes it complicated for a would-be enemy to attack the United States.
Former Clinton era Defense Secretary Bill Perry clashes with Jim Miller who served as Under Secretary of Defense for Policy during the Obama administration. Perry says America does not need the triad.
The former military commander of America’s nuclear forces, Gen. James Cartwright (Ret.) says U.S. intercontinental ballistic missiles should be phased out.
See more behind-the-scenes photos from America’s nuclear stockpile.
NPR's Dave Davies interviews grantee Sonia Shah about her latest book, "Pandemic."
A 2009 law requires Brazilian cities to buy at least 30 percent of ingredients for meals in public schools from family farmers. The law has helped poor farmers and improved the quality of meals.
In rural western Kenya, access to safe abortions is next to impossible. As a result, women are left to seek out untrained abortion providers, or beg a skilled clinician to perform one clandestinely.
Today Maoist insurgents keen to exploit the state's enduring weaknesses stalk the Hindu heartland. They are waging their "people's war" in under-policed areas where conditions are most fertile.
"Iraq: Death of a Nation" examines how the U.S. invasion and occupation created a multi-faceted civil war in which the U.S. is now actively arming multiple factions. Last summer, the project focused on how Iraq's refugee crisis was created by the invasion and the fighting that has followed. This...
Journalist Phillip Robertson and videographer Carlos Villalon investigate the controversies swirling around America's most important Latin American ally and what they mean for the people of Colombia.
Oil and gas finds are turning the eastern slopes of the Andes Mountains and the adjacent Amazonian lowlands of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia into a hydrocarbon hotspot.
Conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo have resulted in millions of Congolese lives lost, while benefiting the trade of small arms and valuable minerals like coltan.
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