Investigation
List of Investigation articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Inside Story of Russia’s Fight to Keep the U.N. Corrupt
From bullying out reformers to blocking efforts to save millions.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Pentagon May Be Paying a Billion Dollars a Year to the Wrong People
But its accounting is so bad that it can't say for sure how much or to whom.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Target Malfunctions Imperil Missile Defense Effort
The Pentagon is taking risks with old or untested parts -- and paying hundreds of millions of dollars extra.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Mutiny in Kabul
An exclusive report on the troubled security team at America's most important embassy.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Can You Fight Poverty With a Five-Star Hotel?
The story of how the World Bank's investment arm hands out billions in loans to wealthy tycoons and giant multinationals in some of the world's poorest places.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Does the F.B.I. Have an Informant Problem?
How the bureau is playing fast and loose in its fight against domestic terrorism.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Militant Reaffirms Role of Pakistan in Mumbai Attacks
U.S. and Indian officials say weeks of interrogating Zabiuddin Ansari yielded new evidence that Pakistani intelligence officers helped plan and direct the 2008 terror onslaught that cost six Americans and 160 others their lives.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A Giant Among Giants
Glencore -- founded by famous fugitive Marc Rich -- has cornered the market on just about everything. Now that it's going public, will its ties to dictators and spies stand up to scrutiny?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Big Oil, Small Country
Liberia's Nobel Prize-winning president has made fighting corruption the centerpiece of her administration. But the document trail surrounding a recent multimillion dollar oil deal shows just how difficult that fight can be.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How Many Investigators Does It Take to Catch a Kleptocrat?
Since 2007, U.S. officials have been investigating the rampant corruption of Equatorial Guinea's dangerously debauched president-in-waiting. They haven't gotten far.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Anatomy of an Adoption Crisis
An exclusive investigation uncovers how State Department officials uncovered systemic corruption in the Vietnamese adoption system -- and how they struggled to do something about it.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Neda Lives
The little-known story of Iran's other Neda Soltani and how a picture changed her life forever.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Case Raises Questions About U.N.’s Role in Zimbabwe
A former U.N. official claims his warnings of a coming calamity were stifled by a U.N. bureaucracy intent on keeping good relations with Zimbabwe's dictator, Robert Mugabe.
