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Billion-Dollar Blessings
by Alec MacGillis It was the start of the 2017 Fall Family Weekend at Liberty University, the school founded by Jerry Falwell Sr. 47 years ago in Lynchburg, Virginia, and the lines were especially...
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We’re Hiring, a Lot. Here’s What We’re Looking For.
by Eric Umansky ProPublica is doing a whole lot of hiring. We’ve listed about two dozen positions. That includes plenty of reporters — to focus on technology and big business, among other things — and...
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The Company Michael Cohen Kept — “Trump, Inc.” Podcast
by Ilya Marritz and Andrea Bernstein, WNYC If you’ve seen video or images of Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, they’ve probably been set in locations that exude power and...
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“I Really Did Kill Those Babies”
by Peter Elkind Convicted murderer Genene Jones, suspected for decades of killing more than a dozen children while working as a nurse at San Antonio’s charity hospital, offered several chilling...
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Chicago’s Gang Database Is Full of Errors — And Records We Have Prove It
by Mick Dumke ProPublica Illinois reporter Mick Dumke looks at the state’s political issues and personalities in this occasional column. During January 1984, the Chicago Police Department labeled more...
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Florida Moves to Shut Down For-Profit Residence After Finding Horrific Abuse...
by Heather Vogell After another patient died under suspicious circumstances and reports surfaced of more instances of abuse and neglect, Florida regulators moved this week to shutter a for-profit...
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ProPublica Reporter Talia Buford Co-Hosts “Hot Mess,” New PBS Digital Series...
by ProPublica PBS Digital Studios launched today its new original YouTube program, “Hot Mess,” dedicated to explaining both the scientific impacts of climate change and how it impacts our daily lives....
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Canary in the Coal Pond
by Talia Buford In tests conducted in late 2017, one in three coal-fired power plants nationwide detected “statistically significant” amounts of contaminants, including harmful chemicals like arsenic,...
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Chicago’s Gang Database Isn’t Just About Gangs
by Mick Dumke What is a gang, anyway? That’s one of many questions raised by the huge amounts of data collected and maintained by the Chicago Police Department. As I wrote in a column this week,...
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A Short History of Threats Received by Donald Trump’s Opponents
by Decca Muldowney When Stormy Daniels spoke to “60 Minutes” last month, the porn actress described a threat she received years ago after speaking to a journalist about her alleged affair with Donald...
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Video: How IBM Is Quietly Pushing Out Aging Workers
by Ranjani Chakraborty and Ariana Tobin Watch the video. Last month, we reported that over the past five years, IBM has targeted its older U.S. employees for layoffs. The numbers are staggering: Since...
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Jacksonville Sheriff Uses Misleading Data to Defend Pedestrian Ticketing
by Topher Sanders, ProPublica, and Benjamin Conarck, The Florida Times-Union [Jacksonville] Jacksonville Sheriff Mike Williams in recent months has repeatedly defended his department’s enforcement of...
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Nonprofit Watchdog Group Shutting Down
by Dan Mihalopoulos, Chicago Sun-Times, and Mick Dumke, ProPublica Project Six — the nonprofit watchdog group led by Faisal Khan, the former inspector general of Chicago’s City Council — announced...
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Welcome to America. Now, Figure It Out.
by Matt Katz, WNYC Ilbouto Micheline began listing the countries represented by the little flags lined up on the mantelpiece of the former church rectory where she lives: Cameroon, Guatemala,...
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How Asylum Works — And Doesn’t Work
by Kavitha Surana Yearslong wait lists, bewildering legal arguments, an extended stay in detention — you can experience it all in The Waiting Game, a newsgame that simulates the experience of trying...
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The Waiting Game
by Sisi Wei, ProPublica, and Nick Fortugno, Playmatics Based on the real case files of five asylum seekers from five countries and interviews with the medical and legal professionals who evaluate and...
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Shutdown of Texas Schools Probe Shows Trump Administration Pullback on Civil...
by Annie Waldman Beside a highway in Bryan, Texas, tucked between a motorcycle bar and the county jail, stands a low-slung, sprawling complex with tinted windows, sandstone walls and barbed wire...
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ProPublica Wins Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi Award
by ProPublica The Society of Professional Journalists announced today that “Lost Mothers,” a project with NPR, has won the Sigma Delta Chi Award for excellence in journalism. The collaboration...
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Redesigning Maternal Care: OB-GYNs Are Urged to See New Mothers Sooner and...
by Nina Martin Doctors would see new mothers sooner and more frequently, and insurers would cover the increased visits, under sweeping new recommendations from the organization that sets standards of...
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The Curious Case of the Twice-Fired FBI Analyst
by Topher Sanders On Feb. 22, 2018, when Said Barodi received the letter from the deputy director of the FBI, he expected bad news. A year earlier, Barodi had been fired as an analyst for the bureau,...
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