Pulitzer Prize

Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.

On June 4, 1989, the bodies of Jo, Michelle and Christe Rogers were found floating in Tampa Bay.

On July 4, the Guadalupe ripped our home from its pillars, pulling my family into its waters and into the night. Then morning came.

Florida’s tourism economy crashed, leaving dozens of low-wage workers trapped in a crumbling motel without electricity.

Migrants from Africa, South Asia, and Haiti are traversing the Darien Gap to reach the U.S. It's one of the most dangerous regions in the world.

Judge Donna Scott Davenport oversees a juvenile justice system in Rutherford County, Tennessee, with a staggering history of jailing children. She said kids must face consequences, which rarely seem to apply to her or the other adults in charge.

In the countryside, the endless killing of civilians turned women against the occupiers who claimed to be helping them, Anand Gopal writes.

Inside the effort to pull minors from ‘the Blade,’ one of the most notorious sex-trafficking corridors in the United States.

As cognitive decline began to alter who Diane Norelius was, her adult daughters and her boyfriend wound up in a bitter dispute over which version of her should get to decide what she wanted.

For men awaiting execution in Texas, illicit games of Dungeons & Dragons became a lifeline.

As American cities struggle to recover from the pandemic, Denver's problems spill over onto its buses.

What did the state of Alabama do to Joe Nathan James in the three hours before his execution?

The 52-year-old has memories of being abused as a young child. For half her life she’s been searching for evidence that would persuade people to believe her.

On February 23, 2020, Ahmaud Arbery was murdered while he was out for a run in Glynn County, Georgia. His death shows that running has failed Black America.

Even when the economy was booming, Dave and Sergine had lived in a state of near homelessness. Coronavirus made it worse.

The once famously long lines at Disney World remained short even as Orlando’s free food lines, packed with laid-off hotel and theme park workers, grew longer. All the while Flaviana Decker's unemployment checks shrank from more than $800 a week in July to less than $245 a week in October, which didn’t even cover her rent.

Ben Taub reports on Mohamedou Salahi, whom Guantánamo’s leadership considered to be its highest-value detainee but whose guard suspected otherwise.

He filmed the killing of Eric Garner. The video traveled far, but it wouldn’t get justice for his dead friend. Instead, the NYPD would exact their revenge through targeted harassment and eventually imprisonment—Orta’s punishment for daring to show the world police brutality.

For 40 years, journalists chronicled the eccentric royal family of Oudh, deposed aristocrats who lived in a ruined palace in the Indian capital. It was a tragic, astonishing story. But was it true?

Elevation. Breach. Retreat. About climate change, the people on the Cape speak the language of war. Join us as we criss-cross Cape Cod in search of what's being lost.