Investigation

Mutiny in Kabul

An exclusive report on the troubled security team at America's most important embassy.

BY ADAM ZAGORIN | JANUARY 17, 2013

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.

BY CHERYL STRAUSS EINHORN | JANUARY 2, 2013

Does the F.B.I. Have an Informant Problem?

How the bureau is playing fast and loose in its fight against domestic terrorism.

BY J.M. BERGER | SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

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.

BY SEBASTIAN ROTELLA | AUGUST 9, 2012

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?

BY KEN SILVERSTEIN | MAY/JUNE 2012

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.

BY JOHNNY DWYER, SPECIAL TO PROPUBLICA | FEBRUARY 22, 2012

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.

BY KEN SILVERSTEIN | APRIL 7, 2011

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.

BY E.J. GRAFF | SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

Neda Lives

The little-known story of Iran's other Neda Soltani and how a picture changed her life forever.

BY CAMERON ABADI | JUNE 14, 2010

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.

BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | FEBRUARY 22, 2010