Best of 2016: Investigative Reporting

This is the biggest investigation we’ve ever published.

Alice Gregory on Jill Magid’s negotiation with Federica Zanco for the architect’s archive.

There’s software used across the country to predict future criminals. And it’s biased against blacks.

How one school became a battleground over which children benefit from a separate and unequal system.

Witnesses claimed that special ops forces dug bullets out of a pregnant woman to cover up their crime. The Pentagon found that soldiers did nothing wrong.

Over a million people are buried in the city’s potter’s field on Hart Island. A New York Times investigation uncovers some of their stories and the failings of the system that put them there.

When Muslim immigrants apply to become citizens, they often find the process delayed for years without explanation. Then, when they are at wit’s end, they get a visit from the FBI, with an offer they don’t dare refuse.

The Republican has not followed through on many of his promises to give to charity.

A former heir to a racial nationalist movement reconsiders the ideology he once helped spread.

My obsession with the flaws, reproductions and potential collapse of Michelangelo’s masterpiece.

A hotly contested, supposedly ancient manuscript suggests Christ was married. But believing its origin story—a real-life <em>Da Vinci Code</em>, involving a Harvard professor, a onetime Florida pornographer, and an escape from East Germany—requires a big leap of faith.

Burkhard Bilger attends a session with Gabriele Baring where Germans address their family histories and inherited trauma from the Second World War.