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The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX

Reveal’s investigations will inspire, infuriate and inform you. Host Al Letson and an award-winning team of reporters deliver gripping stories about caregivers, advocates for the unhoused, immigrant families, warehouse workers and formerly incarcerated people, fighting to hold the powerful accountable. The New Yorker described Reveal as “a knockout … a pleasure to listen to, even as we seethe.” A winner of multiple Peabody, duPont, Emmy and Murrow awards, Reveal is produced by the nation’s first investigative journalism nonprofit, The Center for Investigative Reporting, and PRX. From unearthing exploitative working conditions to exposing the nation’s racial disparities, there’s always more to the story. Learn more at revealnews.org/learn.

© 2024

Reveal’s investigations will inspire, infuriate and inform you. Host Al Letson and an award-winning team of reporters deliver gripping stories about caregivers, advocates for the unhoused, immigrant families, warehouse workers and formerly incarcerated people, fighting to hold the powerful accountable. The New Yorker described Reveal as “a knockout … a pleasure to listen to, even as we seethe.” A winner of multiple Peabody, duPont, Emmy and Murrow awards, Reveal is produced by the nation’s first investigative journalism nonprofit, The Center for Investigative Reporting, and PRX. From unearthing exploitative working conditions to exposing the nation’s racial disparities, there’s always more to the story. Learn more at revealnews.org/learn.

© 2024
147hr 54min
Thumbnail for "The Great Arizona Water Grab".
As wells run dry in the Arizona desert, a race for profits is underway.
Thumbnail for "The Racist Hoax That Changed Boston".
After a pregnant woman’s murder, police searched for a Black killer. They were chasing a lie.
Thumbnail for "Buried Secrets: America’s Indian Boarding Schools Part 2".
A Catholic boarding school on the Pine Ridge Reservation is seeking forgiveness for its troubled history. But school survivors want justice first.
Thumbnail for "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.
Thumbnail for "The Many Contradictions of a Trump Victory".
From Democrats who wouldn’t vote for Kamala Harris to families of January 6ers fighting for their release, we meet the people behind Donald Trump’s red wave.
Thumbnail for "From Victim to Suspect".
A young mom reports a sexual assault to police—but that doesn’t solve her problem. It creates a new one.
Thumbnail for "How Donald Trump Won the Presidency, Again".
Donald Trump defeated Kamala Harris to return to the White House as Republicans captured the Senate and threatened to regain the House.
Thumbnail for "Remembering a White Supremacist Coup".
In 1898, a stolen election in North Carolina laid the foundations of the Jim Crow South and much of the structural racism that continues today.
Thumbnail for "Why Elon Musk Went Full MAGA".
The world’s richest person is spending millions of dollars and using his social media platform X to get Donald Trump reelected.
Thumbnail for "Swing States of Denial".
The Big Lie hasn’t (yet) died and how swing state officials are grappling with it. Plus, a Kamala Harris interview that’s never been broadcast.
Thumbnail for "Why You Shouldn’t Buy the Election Narrative About Black Men".
Some Democrats, including former President Barack Obama, are worried that Black men are leaving the Democratic Party to support Donald Trump over Kamala Harris.
Thumbnail for "Red, Black, and Blue".
Mother Jones video correspondent Garrison Hayes does a deep dive into the motivations of Black Trump supporters.
Thumbnail for "A Christian Nationalist Has Second Thoughts".
Former evangelical leader Rob Schenck discusses his conversion from anti-abortion activist to opponent of Donald Trump and Christian conservatism.
Thumbnail for "In God We Vote".
A small-town pastor blurs the line between church and state. It’s all part of a growing ideology that believes Christians should control society.
Thumbnail for "Not All Votes Are Created Equal".
America’s Founding Fathers created a political system that favored an elite minority. Today, minority rule is threatening US democracy like never before.
Thumbnail for "Did the US Cause Its Own Border Crisis?".
US policies triggered a cycle of violence in Mexico, putting innocent families in harm's way. Many have fled north to seek asylum at the border.
Thumbnail for "Black in the Sunshine State".
Host Al Letson goes home to Jacksonville to take stock of changes that have happened in the past few years and what they mean for Black Floridians.
Thumbnail for "Your Retirement Investments Are Probably Fueling Climate Change".
Discover how your retirement savings might be supporting the fossil fuel industry—and what you can do about it.
Thumbnail for "She Ate a Poppy Seed Salad. Child Services Took Her Baby.".
You’re having a baby. A hospital drug test comes out positive. But you know the test is wrong—and you can’t control what happens next.
Thumbnail for "They Followed Doctors’ Orders. The State Took Their Babies.".
When addiction treatment costs moms their babies.
Thumbnail for "A Baby Adopted, A Family Divided".
Did a politician’s contested adoption of a Native child follow federal law?
Thumbnail for "The COVID Tracking Project Part 3".
The last episode of our series looks at the myth of COVID-19 as “the great equalizer” and what went wrong in the CDC’s response to the pandemic.
Thumbnail for "The COVID Tracking Project Part 2".
Part two of our three-part series takes listeners inside the failed federal response to COVID-19 and explores the massive volunteer effort to collect data about the disease.
Thumbnail for "The COVID Tracking Project Part 1".
This three-part series takes listeners inside the failed federal response to COVID-19 and explores the massive volunteer effort to collect data about the disease.
Thumbnail for "The Churn".
People who experience psychosis often cycle through homelessness, emergency rooms, and jail. What happened to America’s mental health system?
Thumbnail for "Hidden Confessions of the Mormon Church".
An unprecedented look at the methods the Mormon church uses to keep evidence of child sexual abuse cases secret.
Thumbnail for "How Police Guns End Up in the Hands of Criminals".
Police talk a lot about getting guns off the street. But thousands of their own guns are ending up at crime scenes after police put them up for sale.
Thumbnail for "In Bondage to the Law".
A death row conviction in Alabama is called into question.
Thumbnail for "40 Acres and a Lie Part 3".
Calls for reparations were ignored for decades. Now, local governments are taking up the cause – and outrage is growing.
Thumbnail for "40 Acres and a Lie Part 2 ".
We trace “40 acres” land titles to a staggeringly beautiful sea island off the coast of Georgia that’s now a wealthy gated community.
Thumbnail for "40 Acres and a Lie Part 1".
Our historical investigation found 1,250 formerly enslaved Black Americans who were given land – only to see it returned to their enslavers.
Thumbnail for "A Battle Over Preserving the Lakota Language".
We’re sharing a story from our friends at NPR’s Code Switch podcast about a debate over how to preserve the Lakota language.
Thumbnail for "40 Acres and a Lie Trailer".
Our new three-part series launches June 15th, exploring the legacy of America’s broken promise to formerly enslaved Black people.
Thumbnail for "Sunblocked: Resistance to Solar in Farm Country".
Rural communities across the U.S. push back against large-scale solar projects, sparking a debate on renewable energy and local impact.
Thumbnail for "Not All Votes Are Created Equal".
America’s Founding Fathers created a political system that favored an elite minority. Today minority rule is threatening U.S. democracy like never before.
Thumbnail for "Lessons From a Mass Shooter’s Mother".
Ten years after a horrific massacre, the killer’s mother is trying to help experts prevent the next tragedy.
Thumbnail for "The Racist Hoax That Changed Boston".
After a pregnant woman’s murder, police searched for a Black killer. They were chasing a lie.
Thumbnail for "We Regret to Inform You".
California police are using a controversial tactic after someone dies in their custody.
Thumbnail for "The Spy Inside Your Smartphone".
Spying on journalists with software designed to capture criminals.
Thumbnail for "After the Crash".
A brand-new police force chased a Native teen to his death – and then shut down with no explanation.
Thumbnail for "In Gaza, Every Pregnancy is Complicated".
A mother in Gaza searches for a safe place to deliver her baby.
Thumbnail for "Escaping Putin’s War Machine".
An underground network of Russian anti-war activists is helping soldiers abandon Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine.
Thumbnail for "Cashing in on Troubled Teens".
The big business of warehousing foster children.
Thumbnail for "A Whistleblower in New Folsom Prison".
A correctional officer is found dead days after reporting misconduct in his unit.
Thumbnail for "America Goes Psychedelic, Again".
Psychedelic drugs show promise in treating PTSD and other mental health challenges.
Thumbnail for "Blue State Barriers and the Messy Map of Abortion Access".
In New Mexico, when the only hospital in a vast rural county turns Catholic, reproductive health care is suddenly on the line.
Thumbnail for "The Suspect Detective".
A detective on the rise in Philadelphia abuses his power – would he get away with it?
Thumbnail for "Listening in on Russia’s War in Ukraine".
Secret recordings capture the brutality of Putin’s war in Ukraine.
Thumbnail for "The Plague in the Shadows".
Decades before COVID-19, AIDS tore through the U.S., but there was little help for the most vulnerable communities.
Thumbnail for "Alphabet Boys Revealed".
How an FBI informant infiltrated the racial justice movement.
Thumbnail for "The 13th Step".
Many women seeking help at addiction treatment centers face sexual misconduct by people who work there.
Thumbnail for "The Battle for Clean Energy in Coal Country".
As more states move to renewable energy, Montana is doubling down on fossil fuels.
Thumbnail for "Black in the Sunshine State".
Host Al Letson goes home to Florida to find a changed state.
Thumbnail for "The Double Life of a Civil Rights Icon".
Photographer Ernest Withers chronicled the civil rights movement. Did he also betray it?
Thumbnail for "Sunblocked: Resistance to Solar in Farm Country".
Resistance to solar is growing in rural communities.
Thumbnail for "Fancy Galleries, Fake Art".
How did two New York galleries sell more than $80 million in fake art?
Thumbnail for "It's Not Easy Going Green    ".
Inside a climate solution that doesn’t hold up.
Thumbnail for "Gaza: A War of Weapons and Words".
The loss of civilian life in Gaza and Israel has sparked outrage and protest, but a group of grieving parents continues quietly working for peace.
Thumbnail for "Hidden Confessions of the Mormon Church".
An unprecedented look at the methods the Mormon church uses to keep child sexual abuse cases secret.
Thumbnail for "Havana Syndrome".
Reporters from VICE World News try to get to the bottom of the mystery surrounding a bizarre illness.
Thumbnail for "Locked Up: The Prison Labor That Built Business Empires".
After the Civil War, Southern companies profited off a racist system called convict leasing.
Thumbnail for "In Bondage to the Law ".
A death row conviction in Alabama is called into question.
Thumbnail for "We Regret to Inform You".
A controversial tactic used after the police kill someone.
Thumbnail for "The Welfare-to-Work Industrial Complex".
A lucrative industry is built on people in need.
Thumbnail for "America Goes Psychedelic, Again".
Psychedelic drugs show promise in treating PTSD and other mental health challenges.
Thumbnail for "Cashing in on Troubled Teens".
How the country’s biggest psychiatric hospital chain is profiting off kids trapped in a broken child welfare system.
Thumbnail for "From Victim to Suspect".
A young mom reports a sexual assault to police – but that doesn’t solve her problem. It creates a new one.
Thumbnail for "How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong".
Many schools teach reading using strategies that can actually make it harder for kids to learn.
Thumbnail for "Alphabet Boys Revealed".
How an FBI informant infiltrated the racial justice movement.
Thumbnail for "The Spy Inside Your Smartphone".
Spying on journalists with software designed to capture criminals.
Thumbnail for "Mississippi Goddam Chapter 7: Reasonable Doubt".
New revelations cast doubt on the idea that Billey Joe Johnson accidentally killed himself.
Thumbnail for "Mississippi Goddam Chapter 6: Mississippi Justice".
Justice in George County has never been equal.
Thumbnail for "Mississippi Goddam Chapter 5: Star Crossed".
Billey Joe Johnson was a Black boy dating a White girl. That made the story behind his death even more complicated.
Thumbnail for "Mississippi Goddam Chapter 4: The Investigator".
A Mississippi Bureau of Investigation detective wonders whether Billey Joe Johnson’s case should be reopened.
Thumbnail for "Mississippi Goddam Chapter 3: The Autopsy".
Conflicting autopsy reports raise more questions about how Billey Joe Johnson died.
Thumbnail for "Mississippi Goddam Chapter 2: The Aftermath".
On the morning of Billey Joe Johnson’s death, crime scene tape separates the Johnsons from their son’s body.
Thumbnail for "Mississippi Goddam Chapter 1: The Promise".
Billey Joe Johnson Jr. was a high school football star headed for the big time.
Thumbnail for "The Great Arizona Water Grab".
A surprising group of investors tries to profit off a water crisis in the desert.
Thumbnail for "It's Not Easy Going Green".
Inside a climate solution that doesn’t hold up.
Thumbnail for "Guatemala’s War on Journalists".
Politicians are cracking down on independent journalists, setting back efforts to expose corruption and impunity.
Thumbnail for "The Pentagon Papers: Secrets, Lies and Leaks".
The secret report that changed the Vietnam War.
Thumbnail for "They Followed Doctors’ Orders. The State Took Their Babies.".
When addiction treatment costs moms their babies.
Thumbnail for "The Culture War Goes to College".
We go inside a Florida college battling Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Thumbnail for "The Welfare-to-Work Industrial Complex".
A lucrative industry is built on people in need.
Thumbnail for "The Post-Roe Health Care Crisis ".
The dangerous consequences of abortion bans.
Thumbnail for "The Battle for Clean Energy in Coal Country".
As more states move to renewable energy, Montana is doubling down on fossil fuels.
Thumbnail for "Weapons With Minds of Their Own".
The future of warfare combines computer algorithms and lethal weapons.
Thumbnail for "The Long Campaign to Turn Birth Control Into the New Abortion".
The fall of Roe v. Wade has ended the constitutional right to abortion, and many in the religious right have a new goal: undermining trust in hormonal contraception – including the pill.
Thumbnail for "The Border Patrol’s Fearless 5%".
The U.S. Border Patrol says it wants more female agents, but for decades, the number of women has been stuck around 5%.
Thumbnail for "No Retreat: The Dangers of Stand Your Ground".
A decade after Trayvon Martin, laws keep expanding.
Thumbnail for "The COVID Tracking Project Part 3".
The final episode of our three-part series takes listeners inside the failed federal response to COVID-19 and explores the massive volunteer effort to collect data about the disease.
Thumbnail for "The COVID Tracking Project Part 2".
Part two of our three-part series takes listeners inside the failed federal response to COVID-19 and explores the massive volunteer effort to collect data about the disease.
Thumbnail for "The COVID Tracking Project Part 1".
This three-part series takes listeners inside the failed federal response to COVID-19 and explores the massive volunteer effort to collect data about the disease.
Thumbnail for "Havana Syndrome".
A team of reporters from VICE World News tries to get to the bottom of the mystery surrounding a bizarre illness.
Thumbnail for "The Suspect Detective".
A detective on the rise in Philadelphia abuses his power – would he get away with it?
Thumbnail for "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.
Thumbnail for "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.
Thumbnail for "From Victim to Suspect".
A young mom reports a sexual assault to the police – but that doesn’t solve her problem. It creates a new one.
Thumbnail for "Baseball Strikes Out".
How steroid use became the biggest scandal in baseball history.
Thumbnail for "Listening in on Russia’s War in Ukraine".
Secret recordings capture the brutality of Putin’s war in Ukraine.
Thumbnail for "How a 7-Year Prison Sentence Turns Into Over 100".
How 97 years got added to one man’s prison sentence.
Thumbnail for "How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong".
Many schools teach reading using strategies that can actually make it harder for kids to learn.
Thumbnail for "Inside the Global Fight for White Power".
White nationalists around the globe are working together to disrupt multicultural societies and Western democracies.
Thumbnail for "A Miracle Cure for AIDS or Snake Oil?".
In the 1990s, a Black doctor said he may have found a cure for AIDS – but federal regulators insisted it didn’t work. What was its true potential? This episode is a partnership with the Serum podcast from WHYY and Local Trance Media.
Thumbnail for "Locked Up: The Prison Labor That Built Business Empires".
After the Civil War, Southern companies profited off a racist system called convict leasing.
Thumbnail for "The Double Life of a Civil Rights Icon".
Photographer Ernest Withers chronicled the civil rights movement. Did he also betray it?
Thumbnail for "Drilling Down on Fossil Fuels and Climate Change".
The U.S. has promised to move away from fossil fuels, but the natural gas industry is booming.
Thumbnail for "‘Traitors Get Shot’".
As the threat of criminal charges for the January 6th insurrection looms over Donald Trump, a look into the case against the first insurrectionist to be prosecuted.
Thumbnail for "A Young Doctor Reflects on COVID".
As COVID-19 has now claimed more than 1 million lives in the United States, we follow a rookie doctor who graduated at the height of the pandemic.
Thumbnail for "The Suspect Detective".
A detective on the rise in Philadelphia abuses his power – would he get away with it?
Thumbnail for "No Retreat: The Dangers of Stand Your Ground".
A decade after Trayvon Martin, laws keep expanding.
Thumbnail for "The Bitter Work Behind Sugar".
Sugarcane cutters protest the grueling work and living conditions.
Thumbnail for "A Reckoning at Amazon".
Who is shipping out all those holiday season packages? As Amazon has made huge profits, their worker injury rates are higher than other companies.
Thumbnail for "How Democracy Survived the Midterm Elections".
Americans are still fighting over who won the 2020 election, and many people expected the midterms to create more chaos. But mostly they didn’t. Why?
Thumbnail for "The City (Revealed)".
A giant illegal dump appears in a Chicago community.
Thumbnail for "Climate Makers and Takers".
As sea levels rise, two communities in Nigeria adapt in radically different ways.
Thumbnail for "The Ballot Boogeymen".
Extreme new laws built on Trump’s Big Lie crack down on a phantom problem: widespread voter fraud.
Thumbnail for "Buried Secrets: America’s Indian Boarding Schools Part 2".
For more than a century, the U.S. took Native children away from their families and forced them into boarding schools. Today, Native students are reclaiming their heritage.
Thumbnail for "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.
Thumbnail for "The Long Campaign to Turn Birth Control Into the New Abortion".
The fall of Roe v. Wade has ended the constitutional right to abortion and many in the religious right have a new goal: undermining trust in hormonal contraception – including the pill.
Thumbnail for "Minor League Pay".
How the baseball industry created an entire workforce exempt from being paid minimum wage and overtime – and why baseball players aren’t the only ones crying foul.
Thumbnail for "After Ayotzinapa: Arrests and Intrigue".
Mexico’s investigation into the disappearance of 43 college students is making headlines, and also ruffling feathers.
Thumbnail for "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.
Thumbnail for "The Big Grift Behind the Big Lie".
The group True the Vote profits off spreading “the big lie” that the 2020 election was stolen by voter fraud.
Thumbnail for "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.
Thumbnail for "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.
Thumbnail for "American Rehab: A Desperate Call ".
American Rehab exposes a treatment for drug addiction that turns tens of thousands of people a year into an unpaid workforce.
Thumbnail for "Afghanistan's Recognition Problem".
“Do you recognize the Taliban?”
Thumbnail for "My Neighbor, the Suspected War Criminal".
The U.S. fails to charge alleged war criminals.
Thumbnail for "No Retreat: The Dangers of Stand Your Ground".
A decade after Trayvon Martin, laws keep expanding.
Thumbnail for "Inside the Global Fight for White Power".
White nationalists around the globe are working together to disrupt multicultural societies and Western democracies.
Thumbnail for "All the President’s Pardons".
The presidential pardon system is backlogged and broken.
Thumbnail for "Can Our Climate Survive Bitcoin?".
Bitcoin uses enormous amounts of power, and it’s heating up the planet.
Thumbnail for "Lost in Transplantation ".
Getting organs to patients waiting for a transplant is a matter of life and death. Yet transportation errors are putting patients in danger.
Thumbnail for "The Religious Right Mobilized to End Roe. Now What?".
The religious forces for and against abortion.
Thumbnail for "Abortion in the Crosshairs".
An investigation into the 1998 murder of a New York abortion provider exposed a network of violent anti-abortion activists.
Thumbnail for "Baseball Strikes Out".
How steroid use became the biggest scandal in baseball history.
Thumbnail for "Fighting Fire with Fire".
How do we learn to live with wildfires?
Thumbnail for "Shooting in the Dark: Why Gun Reform Keeps Failing".
Gun-related deaths in the U.S. are at an all-time high. Why efforts to stop the violence fall short.
Thumbnail for "‘Traitors Get Shot’".
Guy Reffitt is the first person to stand trial for taking part in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. His son secretly recorded him and gave the tapes to the FBI.
Thumbnail for "A Reckoning at Amazon".
Workers at Amazon were getting hurt on the job more than at other companies. Those records were under wraps – until our reporting uncovered them.
Thumbnail for "Crossing the Line: The Fight Over Roe".
How a longtime safe haven for abortion has become a battleground.
Thumbnail for "How a 7-Year Prison Sentence Turns Into Over 100".
Anthony Gay was sentenced to seven years in prison on a parole violation but ended up with 97 years added to his sentence. How does that happen?
Thumbnail for "My Neighbor, the Suspected War Criminal".
The U.S. fails to charge alleged war criminals.
Thumbnail for "Handcuffed and Unhoused".
Homelessness can lead to a cycle of arrests that only makes things worse.
Thumbnail for "Losing Ground".
Why do Black families make up less than 1% of American farmers?
Thumbnail for "Campaigning on the Big Lie".
Many Republicans are campaigning on the lie that the 2020 election was stolen and promising to change the way elections are run in the future.
Thumbnail for "Can Our Climate Survive Bitcoin?".
Bitcoin is hot – and it’s heating up the planet, too. Making bitcoin uses enormous amounts of power.
Thumbnail for "A Racial Reckoning at Doctors Without Borders".
There’s no simple cure for what’s ailing it.
Thumbnail for "‘To Shoot and Fight for My Home’".
Voices from the front lines in Ukraine, where the Russian invasion has forced millions to flee.
Thumbnail for "Behind the Blue Wall".
A viral video embarrassed a police captain and exposed a toxic work culture.
Thumbnail for "The Bitter Work Behind Sugar".
Sugarcane cutters protest the grueling work and living conditions.
Thumbnail for "Who Has Power and How Do They Wield It?".
Three investigative stories grapple with issues of power.
Thumbnail for "A Strike at the Heart of Roe".
The most restrictive anti-abortion law in the country is now in effect in Texas. How the Lone Star State trumped Roe v. Wade.
Thumbnail for "Emission Control".
If we want to stop the Earth from heating up, we need to deal with methane.
Thumbnail for "After Ayotzinapa Chapter 3: All Souls".
A mother prays that she will one day know the truth about what happened to her son.
Thumbnail for "After Ayotzinapa Chapter 2: The Cover-Up".
A DEA agent in Chicago thinks he knows why Mexican students were ambushed.
Thumbnail for "After Ayotzinapa Chapter 1: The Missing 43".
A flawed investigation into 43 missing students in Mexico brings a new quest for the truth.
Thumbnail for "Take No Prisoners".
During World War II, military commanders tried to conceal an American war crime.
Thumbnail for "Viral Lies".
One year after conspiracy theorists stormed the Capitol, we look at how misinformation spreads.
Thumbnail for "When Lighting the Voids".
An audio drama inspired by Reveal’s investigation into a deadly explosion at a Mississippi shipyard
Thumbnail for "Handcuffed and Unhoused".
Homelessness can lead to a cycle of arrests that only makes things worse.
Thumbnail for "Fancy Galleries, Fake Art".
How did two NYC galleries sell more than $80 million in fake art?
Thumbnail for "Mississippi Goddam Chapter 7: Reasonable Doubt".
New revelations cast doubt on the idea that Billey Joe Johnson accidentally killed himself.
Thumbnail for "Mississippi Goddam Chapter 6: Mississippi Justice".
Justice in George County has never been equal.
Thumbnail for "Amazon Leaks".
Amazon knows a lot about you.
Thumbnail for "Mississippi Goddam Chapter 5: Star Crossed ".
Billey Joe Johnson was a Black boy dating a White girl. That made the story behind his death even more complicated.
Thumbnail for "Mississippi Goddam Chapter 4: The Investigator".
A Mississippi Bureau of Investigation detective wonders whether the case should be reopened.
Thumbnail for "Mississippi Goddam Chapter 3: The Autopsy".
Conflicting autopsy reports raise more questions about how Billey Joe Johnson died.
Thumbnail for "Mississippi Goddam Chapter 2: The Aftermath".
On the morning of Billey Joe Johnson’s death, crime scene tape separates the Johnsons from their son’s body.
Thumbnail for "Mississippi Goddam Chapter 1: The Promise".
Billey Joe Johnson Jr. was a high school football star headed for the big time.
Thumbnail for "When Abusers Keep Their Guns".
She warned police her abusive boyfriend had an illegal gun. He still kept it.
Thumbnail for "Preview Mississippi Goddam: The Ballad of Billey Joe".
Exclusive preview of Reveal's new 7-part series.
Thumbnail for "Preview Mississippi Goddam: The Ballad of Billey Joe".
Exclusive preview of Reveal's new 7-part series.
Thumbnail for "Weapons with minds of their own".
The future of warfare combines computer algorithms and lethal weapons.
Thumbnail for "A Racial Reckoning at Doctors Without Borders".
There’s no simple cure for what’s ailing it.
Thumbnail for "The Bitter Work Behind Sugar".
Sugarcane cutters protest the grueling work and living conditions.
Thumbnail for "Forever Wars".
On 9/11, the U.S. swore to “never forget.” But who gets remembered?
Thumbnail for "Fighting Fire with Fire".
How do we learn to live with wildfires?
Thumbnail for "The Jail Tapes in the Dumpster".
A reporter digs into a teen’s murder conviction.

The Great Arizona Water Grab

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June 8, 202449min 38sec

For years, a Saudi-owned hay farm has been using massive amounts of water in the middle of the Arizona desert and exporting the hay back to Saudi Arabia. 

The farm’s water use has attracted national attention and criticism since Reveal’s Nate Halverson and Ike Sriskandarajah first broke this story more than eight years ago.

Since then, the water crisis in the American West has only worsened as megafarms have taken hold there. And it’s not just foreign companies fueling the problem: Halverson uncovers that pension fund managers in Arizona knowingly invested in a local land deal that resulted in draining down the groundwater of nearby communities. So even as local and state politicians have fought to stop these deals, their retirement fund has been fueling them.

Since we first aired this story in July, our reporting has spurred Arizona’s governor and attorney general into action. 

On this week’s Reveal, learn about water use in the West, who’s profiting and who’s getting left behind.

For more of Halverson’s reporting into a global scramble for food and water, watch “The Grab.” By Center for Investigative Reporting Studios and director Gabriela Cowperthwaite, the film will be in theaters and available to stream starting June 14.

This is an update of an episode that originally aired in July 2023.

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