Best of 2018: Investigative Reporting

The answer to the disparity in death rates has everything to do with the lived experience of being a black woman in America.

We unearthed thousands of internal documents that help explain how the Islamic State stayed in power so long.

Anna Delvey, born Anna Sorokin, seemed to be an up-and-coming New York socialite. Now she’s charged with grand larceny, attempted grand larceny, and theft of services.

A trove of text messages details a plan by Mr. Moonves and a faded Hollywood manager to bury a sexual assault allegation. Instead, the scheme helped sink the CBS chief, and may cost him $120 million.

From his $20-million-a-year perch, Matt Lauer turned NBC into his personal playground. Then, suddenly, he was gone. But Lauer’s axing has only raised unsettling questions about the network's leadership, its boys’-club culture, and how it covered the #MeToo moment.

What happened to a Portland student sheds light on how a desire to thwart a shooting can have unintended consequences.

After an 11-year-old Navajo girl was kidnapped, her family and friends sprang into action to find her. Why didn’t law enforcement?​

The murder of Mickey Bryan, a quiet fourth-grade teacher, stunned her small Texas town. Then her husband, a beloved high school principal, was charged with killing her. Did he do it, or had there been a terrible mistake?

Houston thought it was prepared for a major hurricane like Harvey. But as the flooding overwhelmed the city’s emergency systems, families like the Daileys found out too late that they were on their own.

An investigation into how Colombian and other Latin American drug traffickers smuggle illegal gold through Miami into the U.S.’s jewelry, smartphones and coins, damaging the Amazon rainforest and laundering their cocaine profits in the process.

A startling investigation into how men enter bathtubs. Do they do it on their hands and knees, so their balls don’t get hurt by the hot water?