State Legislatures Are Dramatically Increasing Law Enforcement Involvement in Elections
The proliferation of election crime legislation is the most threatening front in voter suppression efforts in generations.
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The Ballot Boogeymen
Extreme new laws built on Trump’s Big Lie crack down on a phantom problem: widespread voter fraud.
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Ballot Collection Rules Have Changed in Many Places. Here’s How to Make Sure Your Vote Counts.
Election attorneys and voting rights experts worry these laws will scare people away from voting. So we’ve created this guide to make sure you know the rules in your state.
How Are Voter Suppression Tactics Affecting You and Your Community? 
Help us understand whether new election rules and threats are keeping people from voting.
Search for the Crime Bills That Target Voting and Elections in Your State
Reveal created a first-of-its-kind database to track bills that target election crimes in state legislatures across the country.
Stand Your Ground Laws Are Proliferating. And More People Are Dying.
Expanded self-defense laws are being used to justify killings of roommates, people who are unhoused, and in road rage incidents and child custody disputes.
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Behind the Smiles at Amazon
Amazon’s internal records expose the true toll of its relentless drive for domination.
After Ayotzinapa
In 2014, students from a rural college in Mexico came under attack by police. Six people were killed and 43 young men disappeared without a trace.
Mississippi Goddam
Reveal’s serial podcast investigates a story that is a reckoning of justice in America. Explore the series.
When Abusers Keep Their Guns
Reveal’s investigation into how domestic abusers are allowed to keep their guns – with deadly consequences.
American Rehab
A treatment for drug addiction has turned tens of thousands of people into an unpaid, shadow workforce.
The Disappeared
For six years, a North Carolina family has tried to find out what the U.S. government did with its children after they were separated at the border.
Buried Secrets: America’s Indian Boarding Schools Part 2
A Catholic boarding school on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is seeking forgiveness for its troubled history. But school survivors want justice first.
Buried Secrets: America’s Indian Boarding Schools Part 1
After decades of stripping away Native American identity from its students, a Catholic boarding school seeks to help the community heal.
The Long Campaign to Turn Birth Control Into the New Abortion
Now that the fall of Roe v. Wade has ended the constitutional right to abortion, many in the religious right have a new goal: undermining trust in, and limiting access to, hormonal contraception – including the pill.
Minor League Pay
The baseball industry created an entire workforce exempt from being paid minimum wage and overtime – and players eventually cried foul.
After Ayotzinapa: Arrests and Intrigue
New developments in Mexico’s investigation into the disappearance of 43 college students are making headlines, and also ruffling feathers.
Locked Up: The Prison Labor That Built Business Empires
Companies across the South profited off the forced labor of people in prison after the Civil War – a racist system known as convict leasing.
The Big Grift Behind the Big Lie
The group True the Vote has collected millions off spreading “the big lie” that the 2020 election was stolen by voter fraud.
American Rehab: Shadow Workforce
For decades, work-based rehabs have spread across the country. No one knows how many are out there, so we counted them ourselves.
We Forced the Government to Share Corporate Diversity Data. It’s Giving Companies an Out Instead.
Instead of releasing diversity reports for thousands of government contractors, the U.S. Department of Labor invited them to fight their public release – and specifically named Reveal’s reporter as the instigator.
American Rehab: A Venomous Snake
After amassing a small fortune, Synanon turns from a revolutionary rehab into a violent cult with mass sterilizations and a rattlesnake in a mailbox.