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Trump and the Climate: His Hot Air on Warming Is Far From the Greatest Threat
by Andrew Revkin President-elect Donald J. Trump has long pledged to undertake a profound policy shift on climate change from the low-carbon course President Obama made a cornerstone of his eight...
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New York City and State Step Up Enforcement of Wage Rules For Luxury Building...
by Cezary Podkul New York City and state regulators have joined forces on a previously undisclosed effort to enforce wage rules for service workers at luxury apartment buildings whose owners receive...
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Rethinking The Cost of War
by Mike Hixenbaugh for The Virginian-Pilot, and Charles Ornstein, ProPublica This story was co-published with The Virginian-Pilot. There are many ways to measure the cost of U.S. involvement in the...
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Vegas Prosecutors Seek Help in Identifying Convictions Won With Faulty Drug...
by Ryan Gabrielson This story was co-published with the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The Clark County District Attorney’s Office in Nevada established a conviction review unit in October. In what appears...
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Why Developers of Manhattan Luxury Towers Give Millions to Upstate Candidates
by Cezary Podkul and Derek Kravitz, ProPublica, and Will Parker, The Real Deal, This story was co-published with The Real Deal. In 2014, an obscure campaign in the foothills west of Albany between a...
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2016: The Year in Visual and Interactive Storytelling
by David Sleight and Scott Klein ProPublica Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate The Year in Visual and Interactive Storytelling Sometimes words aren’t enough to tell a complex story....
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Bias in Criminal Risk Scores Is Mathematically Inevitable, Researchers Say
by Julia Angwin and Jeff Larson The racial bias that ProPublica found in a formula used by courts and parole boards to forecast future criminal behavior arises inevitably from the test’s design,...
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Rick Perry’s Texas Giveaways
by Alec MacGillis Donald Trump’s selection of Rick Perry to lead the Department of Energy has prompted many Democrats to question Perry’s qualifications for the position. While he governed a state...
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Doing Journalism Differently: What’s Next For ProPublica’s Engagement...
by Eric Umansky and Terry Parris Jr. A few months ago, we announced that we were hiring for a new kind of position: engagement reporter. Engagement is often used as a kind of euphemism for a social...
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Endangered Species Under GOP? Climate Change Information on the Web
by Andrew Revkin James Rowen, a longtime Wisconsin journalist and environmental blogger, recently discovered a stark remaking of a state Department of Natural Resources web page on climate change and...
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Obama Picks Up the Pace on Commutations, But Pardon Changes Still in Limbo
by Sarah Smith Near the start of his second term, President Obama had granted clemency at a lower rate than any president in recent history. He had pardoned 39 people and denied 1,333 requests. He had...
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Alleged Chicago Assault Reignites Issue of Hate Crimes Against Whites
by Joe Sexton The meaning and enforcement of the Illinois hate-crimes statute seems destined for intense scrutiny with the arrest this week of four young black adults in Chicago in connection with the...
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Conservatives Plot Their Course on the Rising ‘Sea of Red’ in State Capitals
by Robert Faturechi Shortly after the November election, with the nation’s political attention focused on the Trump transition, an influential advocacy group met outside Washington to discuss how to...
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The Breakthrough: The $2 Drug Test
by Kate Brown .player_box { display: none; } div.article-inline-image.Right.demobbed {display: none;} We started this podcast seven years ago. The idea, honestly, was to create another platform to...
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An Ocean Apart, But United in Concerns About Hate Crimes
by Patrick G. Lee A divisive vote, with jobs and immigrants the most combustible issues. An outcome that surprised the experts. A nation left on edge, with many anxious about intolerance and the...
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Politwoops: Explore the Tweets They Didn’t Want You to See
by Derek Willis Politwoops tracks deleted tweets by public officials, including people currently in office and candidates for office.
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Federal Agents Arrest a Former Guatemalan Soldier Charged With Massacring...
by Sebastian Rotella Advancing an investigation that has spanned two continents and three decades, U.S. federal agents have arrested a Guatemalan immigrant suspected of involvement in the massacre of...
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Will Trump’s Climate Team Accept Any ‘Social Cost of Carbon’?
by Andrew Revkin President-elect Donald Trump and members of his proposed cabinet and transition team have taken aim at many of President Obama’s climate and clean-energy policies, programs and...
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Puerto Rico Turns to Lewandowski to Lobby Trump on Debt
by Jesse Eisinger The hedge funds and insurance companies that want financially strapped Puerto Rico to pay them back in full may have found a new ally: Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Corey...
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The Breakthrough: Meet the Reporter Who Went Undercover in the Hermit Kingdom
by Annie Waldman .player_box { display: none; } div.article-inline-image.Right.demobbed {display: none;} For decades, the daily life of North Koreans has remained a mystery. Few foreign journalists...
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