Sheri Farley suffers from an excruciating and debilitating condition known as "drop foot," a form of nerve damage caused by five years of breathing glue fumes at an upholstery plant in North Carolina:Continue reading...

Heather Vogell, Alan Judd, and John Perry of the Atlanta Journal Constitution won the 2012 Hillman Prize for Newspaper Journalism for their expose of suspicious standardized test scores in the Atlanta public school system. They found a pattern of suspicious erasures that pointed to the biggest academic fraud in American history.Continue reading...

The finalists for the 2013 National Magazine Awards (ASME Awards) have been announced and we are delighted to see so many past Hillman Prize-winners and Sidney Award-winners on the shortlist:Continue reading...

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What if there was a Wal-Mart and nobody came? That's basically what's happening right now. Wal-Mart stores are in disarray because the nation's largest retailer can't find employees to stock its cavernous new dens of commerce:Continue reading...

Canada's top election official is calling for sweeping changes to the country's elections law to make sure that voter-suppressing robocalls, like the ones uncovered by Canadian Hillman Prize-winners Stephen Maher and Glen McGregor, never happen again:Continue reading...

Seemingly determined to lose friends and alienate people, the nation's largest retailer is suing the United Food and Commercial Workers Union and Our Wal-Mart over last year's strikes in Florida: Continue reading...

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More photos of the 2013 Canadian Hillman Prize ceremony at the Steam Whistle Brewery in Toronto, Ontario.Continue reading...