Reveal

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October 22, 2015 Video: The Secret History of American Surveillance
Few remember that the origins of our modern American surveillance state were forged over 115 years ago, half a world away in the Philippine Islands.
6 min
October 20, 2015 Growing hay a world away
What happens when your ancient desert springs start drying up? Why, you find another source, of course!
Saudi Arabia is almost out of water. For decades, farmers drilled for groundwater to transform their deserts into irrigated fields suitable for crops. Note how the area in the Wadi As-Sirhan Basin changed between 1987 and 2000.
Reveal’s Nathan Halverson and Ike Sriskandarajah don’t travel quite that far to get the story.
12 min
October 13, 2015 But not a drop to drink…
Clean drinking water isn’t a problem most of us worry about in the United States today. But there are still communities in our country where water is brown or green out of the tap. It’s got stuff floating in it. It smells bad.
Neena Satija of our partner The Texas Tribune heads to two Texas towns that sit along the Mexican border to meet with residents who’ve fought for drinkable tap water for decades.
15 min
October 06, 2015 Secret super water users
Got green? Those with money sure do – both in their pockets and around their houses in the form of sprawling lawns and towering hedges.
If you didn’t know California was experiencing a historic drought, driving through the streets of Beverly Hills and Bel Air would only keep you in the dark. The area is lush and dazzling. Streets bask in the healthy green glow of the abundant trees, grass and plants growing carelessly about.
Unsurprisingly, some of the state’s biggest known water guzzlers live here.
But finding out exactly who they are isn’t easy. Reveal reporters go on the hunt for extreme water bingers in the rain-starved Golden State. These super-users are living in homes consuming millions of gallons of water a year.
So who are these guzzlers? And why are they allowed to keep their yards green?
14 min
September 29, 2015 Matching the lost and the found
Throughout this month, we’ve heard about NamUs, a federal database of missing and unidentified persons. This system allows law enforcement agencies and amateur sleuths to search and gather information about active cases. Networks and communities of volunteer detectives have grown online – sleuthing on their own time. In an effort to make matching those lost … Continue reading Matching the lost and the found →
14 min
September 22, 2015 Buried in Blue Earth
In 1980, 18-year-old Michelle Busha left home and never returned. It’s every family’s worst nightmare and it’s a circumstance so tragic that it touched a complete stranger thousands of miles away. Reporter Michael Montgomery meets two women who didn’t know each other, but each had a deep connection to the young woman who disappeared 35 … Continue reading Buried in Blue Earth →
18 min
September 15, 2015 Unidentified migrants reach undignified end
Out of the thousands of unidentified bodies scattered across the country, many are found in South Texas, where migrants are crossing into the U.S. from Mexico. Crossing the border is treacherous – it’s hot and there’s a lot of ground to cover. Dehydration and heatstroke claim many who try to make the trek. And dying in … Continue reading Unidentified migrants reach undignified end →
21 min
September 08, 2015 She never left Harlan alive
In 1969, a young woman was stabbed to death in Harlan, Kentucky, and buried without a name. To many locals, she’s known as “Mountain Jane Doe.” To Darla Jackson and Todd Matthews, her case deserved a little extra digging. We follow Darla and Todd into the wooded hills of Harlan to exhume the body of … Continue reading She never left Harlan alive →
17 min
August 25, 2015 Change in the air in Virginia
In April, we learned that schoolchildren in Virginia have been referred to police at almost three times the national rate – and most of these students have special needs or are African American. Susan Ferriss of The Center for Public Integrity introduced us to Kayleb Moon-Robinson, a sixth-grader with autism who was charged with disorderly … Continue reading Change in the air in Virginia →
18 min
August 18, 2015 The Con Man and His Mentor
Do you remember Ted Liming? He’s a truck driver from North Dakota we met in an earlier episode. He was looking for a safe place to invest a substantial sum of money and stumbled upon secureinvestment.com when searching online for, well, secure investments. Spoiler alert: It was a scam. Ted’s not-so-excellent adventure into the world … Continue reading The Con Man and His Mentor →
14 min

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