How Hospitals Are Failing Black Mothers
by Annie Waldman NEW YORK — When Dacheca Fleurimond decided to give birth at SUNY Downstate Medical Center earlier this year, her sister tried to talk her out of it. Her sister had recently delivered...
View ArticleWho Would Pay $26,000 to Work in a Chicken Plant?
by Michael Grabell The first week Yongho Yeom worked on the chicken line at the House of Raeford poultry plant was like nothing he had ever imagined as a computer engineer in South Korea. Supervisors...
View ArticleWar at Home
by Ranjani Chakraborty and Abrahm Lustgarten The United States has built the most powerful military in the world. That strength has come at a largely unknown cost. The testing and disposal of the...
View ArticleWant to Lower Health Care Costs? Stop Wasting Our Money.
by Marshall Allen In Maine, there’s a warehouse the size of a middle school gymnasium, stuffed with brand-new medical supplies and gently used medical equipment. Several pallets are piled with boxes...
View ArticleFacebook’s Uneven Enforcement of Hate Speech Rules Allows Vile Posts to Stay Up
by Ariana Tobin, Madeleine Varner and Julia Angwin The graphic content of some of the posts reprinted within this article may offend some readers. However, our belief is that readers cannot fully...
View ArticleWhat Does Facebook Consider Hate Speech?
by Madeleine Varner, Ariana Tobin, Julia Angwin and Jeff Larson
View ArticleCalculating the Work Behind Our Work
by Louise Kiernan At ProPublica, one of our watchwords is transparency. We want you see how we do our work. That’s why we publish the data we use in our stories and produce reports three times a year...
View ArticleHow a Local Bureaucrat Made Millions Amid the Rush to Build a Border Fence
by Kiah Collier and Julián Aguilar, The Texas Tribune, and T. Christian Miller, ProPublica
View ArticleTrump Justice Department Pushes for Citizenship Question on Census, Alarming...
by Justin Elliott The Justice Department is pushing for a question on citizenship to be added to the 2020 census, a move that observers say could depress participation by immigrants who fear that the...
View ArticleTaking Care to Get a Mississippi Scandal Right
by Sarah Smith When I arrived, the sheriff was wary of me. I was a visitor to his rural Mississippi county; worse, I was a reporter from New York City. He summed up his skepticism this way: Every time...
View ArticleLegal Footnote: You Have to Look Hard to See the Supreme Court Correct Its...
by Ryan Gabrielson Rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court often come with great anticipation and attention, even true drama. Anxious crowds gather outside the court at dawn. Opinions first go out on paper...
View ArticleHow Harvey Hurt Houston, in 10 Maps
by Al Shaw and Lisa Song, ProPublica, and Kiah Collier, The Texas Tribune, and Neena Satija, The Texas Tribune and Reveal
View ArticleBaltimore Prosecutor Admits He Was Wrong to Block Request to Alter Alford Plea
by Megan Rose Three weeks after ProPublica published a story detailing how a Baltimore prosecutor had failed to abide by the terms of a plea agreement, the Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s Office has...
View ArticleI’ve Sent Out 1,018 Open Records Requests, and This is What I’ve Learned
by Sandhya Kambhampati If you want to know how much money the city of Chicago spends on holiday parade security in a given year, you can file an open records request with the city for the details. If...
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