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Posted June 26th, 2007 by Dave Nichols
Featured Investigation:
 | Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and running mate John McCain have trumpeted her opposition to earmarks like the infamous “bridge to nowhere,” but Palin’s record is more complicated. As mayor, she hired a lobbyist to get federal money and, when running for governor, said she supported earmarks like the infamous bridge. Listen on NPR | More Money and Politics |
Recent Investigations:
 | On Aug. 2, 2007, journalist Chauncey Bailey was gunned down in Oakland, California. CIR has joined more than two dozen reporters and editors from print, radio, and TV to finish his work and investigate the circumstances surrounding his death. |
 | The number of nations seeking nuclear technology is rising. An hour-long radio documentary by CIR and American RadioWorks investigates the most serious threats of nuclear proliferation today. |
 | This season, EXPOSÉ will air as a monthly feature on PBS's Bill Moyers Journal. EXPOSÉ tells the story-behind-the-story of groundbreaking investigative reporting, and is produced by Thirteen/WNET New York in association with CIR. |
 | A special CIR project investigating influence, agenda, and conflicts of interest in the federal courts. Stories include a troubling portrait of the system set up to protect government whistleblowers and a year-long investigation of Bush nominees for the federal bench.
Latest story: The High Price of Diplomacy with China |
 | Why does the U.S. government permit the sale of children's toys containing a
toxic chemical that was banned by the European Union? Mark Schapiro, author of Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power explores that question on PBS NOW with host Maria Hinojosa. |
 | A CIR multimedia investigation into the money and politics behind climate change. A FRONTLINE documentary explores how political and economic forces have prevented the U.S. government from confronting global warming. A radio series on Marketplace asks what we can do to prepare for life in a warmer world. The Nation looks at carbon offsets, and CIR web exclusive reports investigate a PR campaign to discredit climate change science funded by oil companies. |
 | Leave or die—this was the choice white residents in several cities gave their African American neighbors between the end of the Civil War and the Great Depression. CIR co-produced an NPR radio story and the award-winning documentary Banished, which examines a shameful, hidden chapter in U.S. history by revisiting communities where the echoes of racial injustice still reverberate. |
 | A three-year investigation deep inside California’s Latino gang wars. From the lettuce fields of Salinas to the jail cells of Pelican Bay, this collection of print articles, radio stories, and a PBS documentary reveal the devastating effect of gangs on families -- and the controversial war to stop them. |
 | CIR exposes how faulty science at the nation's crime labs is used to put people behind bars. |