Investigation

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

It's a Man's World

Inside the gender breakdowns of Washington's premier think tanks.

BY MICAH ZENKO | JULY 14, 2011

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