Accountability

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The Charleston Gazette-Mail, known for its dogged accountability journalism, survived a merger and bankruptcy. Will it survive a new owner with ties to the very industries its reporters have been watchdogging?

By Brent Cunningham

Storm clouds fill the sky over the U.S. Capitol Building.

Americans are deeply frustrated with how democracy is working in the United States and that could lead to a change in the status quo.

By Lee Drutman

This photo shows a U.S. Border Patrol patch on a border agent's uniform in McAllen, Texas, on January 15th, 2019.

Under President Barack Obama the agency was under the microscope for reform, but under the Trump administration any progress toward that goal has been halted.

By A.C. Thompson

Pacific Standard is looking for an investigative reporter to report and write ambitious accountability journalism.

By Pacific Standard Staff

Representative Jackie Speier (D-California) speaks to members of the press during a Democratic Caucus meeting to elect new leadership on Capitol Hill on November 28th, 2018, in Washington, D.C.

Several members of Congress are already eying legislation to require universities to report taxpayer-funded harassers to the government.

By Francie Diep

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The DEA has been criticized for its role in several high-profile foreign drug operations gone awry.

By Ginger Thompson

More and more Americans feel like outsiders in their own democracy.

By Janine R. Wedel