Best of 2021: Investigative Reporting

The Chronicle spent five months digging into Oakland’s homeless crisis by shadowing four longtime residents to better understand their connection to the city, how they lost their housing and what the city might do to help them.

The school founded by evangelist Jerry Falwell ignored reports of rape and threatened to punish accusers for breaking its moral code, say former students. An official who says he was fired for raising concerns calls it a “conspiracy of silence.”

For people under guardianship, the system can be dehumanizing, dangerous, and even deadly. For the professionals — who can control hundreds of people at a time — it can be very profitable. A BuzzFeed News investigation.

At Moody Bible Institute, purity culture and complementarianism have worked together to forgive abusers and punish the abused.

For five years, a thief has been wreaking havoc on the publishing industry, stealing books before their release. Is it espionage? Revenge? A trap? Or a complete waste of time? Here, Reeves Wiedeman and Lila Shapiro investigate ‘The Spine Collector.’

The Kabul-Kandahar road was meant to be a symbol of the new Afghanistan, but a trip down it today reveals the folly of America's longest war