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DeVos Pick to Head Civil Rights Office Once Said She Faced Discrimination for...
by Annie Waldman The new acting head of the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights once complained that she experienced discrimination because she is white. As an undergraduate...
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Trump is Hiring Lobbyists and Top Ethics Official Says ‘There’s No Transparency’
by Justin Elliott President Trump has stocked his administration with a small army of former lobbyists and corporate consultants who are now in the vanguard of the effort to roll back government...
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California Group Home Liable for Millions in Case of Abused Boy
by Joaquin Sapien A jury in Sacramento, California, last week awarded more than $11 million to the family of a 16-year-old-boy who had been sexually assaulted by a peer at his group home in Davis. The...
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Secret Hospital Inspections May Become Public at Last
by Charles Ornstein This story was co-published with NPR’s Shots blog. The public could soon get a look at confidential reports about errors, mishaps and mix-ups in the nation’s hospitals that put...
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New Jersey Seeks to Sanction Psychologist for Disclosing Patients’ Diagnoses...
by Charles Ornstein This story was co-published with The New York Times. The State of New Jersey is moving to revoke or suspend the license of a prominent psychologist, accusing him of failing to...
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Crime Lab Scandal Forces Prosecutors to Disavow Thousands of Drug Convictions
by Patrick G. Lee During her career as a Massachusetts lab chemist, Annie Dookhan has admitted to making up drug test results and tampering with samples, in the process helping send scores of people...
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Russia’s Shadow-War in a Wary Europe
by Sebastian Rotella As the French prepare to vote Sunday in a presidential election marked by acrimonious debate about Russian influence in Europe, there’s little doubt about which candidate Moscow...
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Remember Those Temporary Officials Trump Quietly Installed? Some Are Now...
by Derek Kravitz Last month, ProPublica revealed that the Trump administration had installed hundreds of political appointees across the federal government without formally announcing them. The more...
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We’re Investigating Hate Across the U.S. There’s No Shortage of Work.
by Joe Sexton and Rachel Glickhouse An African-American homeless man slain with a sword on the streets of New York. A mosque attacked in Fort Collins, Colorado, its windows smashed by a man who...
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New York Landlords Exploit Loophole to Hike Rents Despite Freeze
by Cezary Podkul In October 2015, Scherrie and Langston Donaldson received a cryptic notice from their landlord, labeled “preferential rent credit removal.” At first glance, they weren’t sure what to...
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Lawmakers Seek Stronger Monitoring of Racial Disparities in Car Insurance...
by Lauren Kirchner Six Democratic members of Congress are urging Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to appoint a director for the Federal Insurance Office, which monitors access of minority and...
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Trump Is Finally Almost Done Resigning From His Businesses
by Derek Kravitz and Al Shaw, ProPublica, and Andrea Bernstein and Ilya Marritz, WNYC, This story was co-published with WNYC. At a press conference before he took office, then-President-elect Donald...
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America’s Other Drug Problem
by Marshall Allen Every week in Des Moines, Iowa, the employees of a small nonprofit collect bins of unexpired prescription drugs tossed out by nursing homes after residents died, moved out or no...
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Independent Monitor Faults New York State for Delays in Aiding Mentally Ill
by Joaquin Sapien New York state’s failures in moving hundreds of mentally ill residents into more humane living conditions are worsening, plagued by delays and a potentially suspect evaluation...
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Former Director of Anti-Immigration Group Set to Be Named Ombudsman at U.S....
by Marcelo Rochabrun and Jessica Huseman A former director of an anti-immigration group, Julie Kirchner, is expected to be named as ombudsman to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services on Monday,...
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Photos: Returning to the Roots of Case Farms’ Workforce
by Michael Grabell ProPublica Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate Immigration Returning to the Roots of Case Farms’ Workforce by Michael Grabell, ProPublica Photos by Hector Emanuel,...
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Sold for Parts
by Michael Grabell ProPublica Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate Immigration Sold for Parts One of the most dangerous companies in the U.S. took advantage of immigrant workers. Then,...
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Texas Voter ID Law Led to Fears and Failures in 2016 Election
by Jessica Huseman This story was co-published with The Texas Tribune. The confusion started in the first hour of the first day of early voting in San Antonio last October. Signs in polling places...
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With Drug Reps Kept At Bay, Doctors Prescribe More Judiciously
by Charles Ornstein This story was co-published with NPR's Shots blog. When teaching hospitals put pharmaceutical sales representatives on a shorter leash, their doctors tended to order fewer promoted...
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There Are Lots of Climate Uncertainties. Let’s Acknowledge and Plan for Them...
by Andrew Revkin Last fall, I attended a meeting of the Society for Decision Making Under Deep Uncertainty, hosted by the World Bank. The small, somewhat ad-hoc organization has a quirky name but an...
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