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Jared Kushner By Day: Mideast Peace. Kushner Companies By Night: Donating to...
by Justin Elliott As Jared Kushner leads the U.S. government’s effort to develop an Israeli-Palestinian peace plan, the Kushner Companies Charitable Foundation is funding a hardline Israeli settlement...
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Illinois Legislators Pledge to Deal with ‘Pipeline to Prison’ at Juvenile...
by Duaa Eldeib A top juvenile official testified Tuesday that guards at a southern Illinois youth correctional facility have created a “pipeline to prison” that is hampering the state’s ability to...
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How We Analyzed Commercial and Industrial Property Assessments in Chicago and...
by Sandhya Kambhampati and Jason Grotto
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Nothing Protects Black Women From Dying in Pregnancy and Childbirth
by Nina Martin, ProPublica, and Renee Montagne, NPR On a melancholy Saturday this past February, Shalon Irving’s “village” — the friends and family she had assembled to support her as a single mother...
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Covering the Midterms With Election DataBot
Derek Willis The midterm elections are less than a year away, and with the balance of power of both houses of Congress at stake, they seem likely to be closely fought. To help local journalists use...
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Meet the Seven Reporters Joining Us on ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network
by Charles Ornstein There are two types of police reporters, Christian Sheckler recalls his executive editor telling him not too long ago: Those who try to make friends with officers and get rewarded...
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I Spent Years Reporting on Chicago’s Property Tax System. Here’s What Got Me...
by Jason Grotto Coefficient of dispersion, price-related differential, first-pass, second-pass, assessment level, effective tax rate ... I’d use these terms in meetings with my editors, and I could...
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ProPublica Local Reporting Network Selects Seven Newsrooms Across U.S.
by ProPublica ProPublica today named the seven newsrooms and local reporters that will participate in the inaugural ProPublica Local Reporting Network. The yearlong initiative, which kicks off in...
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Black Women Disproportionately Suffer Complications of Pregnancy and...
by Adriana Gallardo About 700 to 900 women die each year from causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. And for every death, dozens of women suffer life-threatening complications. But there is a...
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The Trump Administration Is Scuttling a Rule That Would Save People From...
by Jesse Eisinger After Hurricane Irma hit three months ago in Orlando, Florida, the local police got a desperate 911 call from a 12-year-old boy reporting that his mother and siblings were...
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Coming Soon From ProPublica and the Texas Tribune: The Taking
by ProPublica The government’s vast seizure of private property to build a border fence a decade ago provoked cries of abuse and unfairness. Will it all be repeated if Trump gets his wall? A...
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Here’s How to Find Out If Your Elected Officials Are Blocking Constituents on...
by Derek Kravitz, Terry Parris Jr. and Leora Smith Facebook and Twitter have become central parts of our political and civic lives. It’s not just President Donald Trump on Twitter and political ads on...
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Governors and Federal Agencies Are Blocking Nearly 1,300 Accounts on Facebook...
by Leora Smith and Derek Kravitz Amanda Farber still doesn’t know why Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan blocked her from his Facebook group. A resident of Bethesda and full-time parent and volunteer, Farber...
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How to Save Money on Your Prescription Drugs
by Charles Ornstein, ProPublica, and Katie Thomas, The New York Times If you’re willing to do a little extra work, it is possible to lower your prescription bills. A reporter for The New York Times...
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When Buying Prescription Drugs, Some Pay More With Insurance Than Without It
by Charles Ornstein, ProPublica, and Katie Thomas, The New York Times Having health insurance is supposed to save you money on your prescriptions. But increasingly, consumers are finding that isn't...
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We Are Hiring a Documenting Hate Reporting Fellow
by ProPublica We are looking for a reporting fellow to join our Documenting Hate team, which chronicles and investigates hate crimes and bias incidents in America — where they happen and to whom; how...
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Suspect Evidence Informed a Momentous Supreme Court Decision on Criminal...
by Ryan Gabrielson More than 30 years ago, Congress identified what it said was a grave threat to the American promise of equal justice for all: Federal judges were giving wildly different punishments...
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ProPublica Illinois Q&A: Meet Web Producer Vignesh Ramachandran
by Andrea Salcedo Vignesh Ramachandran, who came to ProPublica Illinois from the Stanford Computational Journalism Lab and Bay Area local news startup Peninsula Press, is in charge of making sure the...
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Trump’s Mining Regulator Nominee Was Once Dropped by the Agency for Doing...
by Ian MacDougall President Donald Trump’s choice to head a federal coal mine regulator, like more than one of his nominees, is a vocal critic of the very agency he’s being asked to lead. Steven...
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