
What is Searchlight?
We start with impartial investigations into key societal problems, simplifying complexities and identifying solutions.
Then we share our analysis through books, documentary films, articles, video briefings, reports to policy makers and broader conversations with the public.
Above all, we help connect people and organizations in a larger cause.
We stress transparency and low overhead: every dollar goes to the actual work of the foundation.
Our books
How to Make a Killing
How did a lifesaving medical breakthrough become one of the nation's worst healthcare catastrophes? The dialysis industry’s blend of aggressive profit-seeking, monopoly power and harm to the defenseless show what’s wrong with American healthcare overall.
Extra Virginity
Part investigative exposé, part food manifesto, Extra Virginity tells the ongoing war between global food fraudsters and artisan producers of great oil. "Mueller reveals the brazen fraud in the olive oil industry and teaches readers how to sniff out the good stuff."
DWIGHT GARNER,
NEW YORK TIMES
Crisis of Conscience
"Tom Mueller's authoritative and timely book reveals what drives a few brave souls to expose and denounce specific cases of corruption. He describes the structural decay that plagues many of our most powerful institutions, putting democracy itself in danger."
GEORGE SOROS