BINJ Investigative Features

Salem Police May Have Requested Federal Anti-Terrorism Monitoring At Pro-Palestine Encampment

The department also planned for the possibility of mass arrests, but won’t confirm the surveillance request

ADAM NUÑEZ December 11, 2025

Massachusetts Spent A Record Amount Of Its Opioid Settlement Funds Last Year. But On What?

Examining the unpublished FY25 remediation fund report obtained for this article, including spending on services and equity grants, and millions of dollars unaccounted for

JONATHAN GERHARDSON November 5, 2025

Beyond Boston: Fighting Poverty And Prison With College In Worcester

Prison education in Massachusetts: Inside Clark University’s program to leverage education’s proven power to cut recidivism

JEAN TROUNSTINE November 4, 2025

Gun Violence Prevention Grant Puts Opioid Settlement Funds Back In Communities

The Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office is spending its settlement funds from the consulting giant McKinsey on nonprofits working on gun violence prevention, urban farming, and food access

JACOB SCHLES November 2, 2025

Hard Lessons From The Failed Campaign To Regulate Psychedelics In Massachusetts

Under-trained staff and mixed messaging: Why Massachusetts’ historic psychedelics bill collapsed

NOAH DALY AND JACK GORSLINE October 16, 2025

How MassArt’s Divestment Organizing ‘Met An Edge’

Efforts to enforce a late 2024 divestment policy stalled, leading to a fateful two minutes when a student protest entered a building

JACOB SCHLES October 16, 2025

No Opioid Settlement Funds Going To Massachusetts Prisons

The commonwealth will receive more than a billion dollars for opioid remediation—none of it is for the state’s most vulnerable drug-dependent population

CHRIS FARAONE October 7, 2025

Boston Police Deployed 71 Drone Flights Over Caribbean Carnival

New records obtained by BINJ also confirm that BPD flew a drone over this year’s Dominican Parade

ELIZA DEWEY October 2, 2025

This Company Paid Massachusetts Opioid Settlement Funds, And Has Had Millions In State Contracts Since

The consulting giant McKinsey continued its work advising Mass on healthcare and other matters after paying for “illegal and dangerous partnership with Purdue Pharma”

JACOB SCHLES September 21, 2025