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Online tool | A new window into a still-segregated America ASK THIS A new online tool lets reporters explore the racial makeup of their communities almost block by block, offering new insights into residential integration and segregation -- and raising a lot of really important basic questions. 
Oil spill redux | What about the fishermen? And other questions from the Gulf ASK THIS For the people whose lives depend on the Gulf of Mexico, BP's massive oil is far from ancient history. A journalist who's been living among them relates the questions they're asking every day.
Subsidizing Chinese spying? | State and local corporate welfare are mind-boggling. Where's the reporting? ASK THIS Cuts in spending for the poor, the disabled and on education are common as revenues decline in states across America. But little noticed along with the hand-wringing, as David Cay Johnston points out, are enormous benefits being given to rich corporations.
Torture report | Ten questions for Harold Koh about torture and U.S. compliance with its legal commitments ASK THIS The Obama administration claims that all alleged abuses of detainees have been or are in the process of being investigated. The lead author of the ACLU's Torture Report asks the obvious but unasked questions.
Foreclosure crisis | Isn’t there some way to stop the tide of evictions ravaging low-income neighborhoods? ASK THIS The organizers of a Harvard project that is helping people stay in their homes after foreclosure suggest questions reporters should be asking about ways to stop banks from destroying lives and communities.
From juvenile crime to corrections budgets | Basic questions on the criminal justice system ASK THIS Marc Mauer, executive director of the Sentencing Project, offers five questions as starting points for coverage of criminal justice in America. Each one of them could result in a solid story.
Fraud everywhere | What in the world is going on inside Bank of America? ASK THIS There's so much we don't know about the toxic assets still being held by our biggest banks because those banks are going to incredible efforts to avoid recognizing their massive losses. The two professors who recently called for Bank of America to be put in receivership list questions everyone should be asking the bank about its practices and its holdings.
Scientific integrity | NOAA on the BP oil blowout: Is this any way to communicate science? ASK THIS Joseph Davis asks: How did NOAA scientists come to be transformed into Obama administration team players, whose scientific judgment was being filtered through the quasi-military Unified Command and the politically controlled Office of Management and Budget?
Digging in | Building up, not drawing down, in Afghanistan ASK THIS Nick Turse writes that reporters should be asking: How permanent are U.S. bases in Afghanistan? And if they are not meant to be used for a decade or more to come, why is the Pentagon still building them as if they were?
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