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Help Us Investigate Care at the Texas Medical Center
by Mike Hixenbaugh, Houston Chronicle, and Charles Ornstein, ProPublica The Texas Medical Center is the largest medical complex in the world, home to major hospitals, medical schools and a host of...
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As Wait for New Heart Got Longer, Patient Grew Sicker
by Mike Hixenbaugh, Houston Chronicle, and Charles Ornstein, ProPublica In early 2014, when Travis Hogan’s malformed heart was failing, his longtime doctors at Texas Children’s Hospital referred him...
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At St. Luke’s in Houston, Patients Suffer as a Renowned Heart Transplant...
by Charles Ornstein, ProPublica, and Mike Hixenbaugh, Houston Chronicle The anonymous letter reached Judy Kveton in March 2017. Nearly two months earlier, her husband’s failed heart transplant at...
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Federal Watchdog Launches Investigation of Age Bias at IBM
by Peter Gosselin The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has launched a nationwide probe of age bias at IBM in the wake of a ProPublica investigation showing the company has flouted or...
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ProPublica, ProPublica Illinois Win Three Excellence in Financial Journalism...
by ProPublica The ProPublica Illinois and Chicago Tribune project “The Tax Divide” is the winner of two 2018 Excellence in Financial Journalism awards in the best local reporting and public service...
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“Trump, Inc.” Live: From “The Art of the Deal” to the Dossier
by ProPublica A few days ago, we held a live taping of the “Trump, Inc.” podcast at The Greene Space in New York City. Tony Schwartz, the co-author with Donald Trump of “The Art of The Deal,” talked...
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How a Typical Government Leak Turned Into a Three-Way War Between Comey,...
by Peter Elkind One of them has to be lying. That conclusion is inescapable if you closely examine the sworn testimony of two erstwhile FBI allies, James Comey and Andrew McCabe, about the leaking...
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You’re Entitled to Government Transparency
by Vignesh Ramachandran Editors and reporters from learning newsroom Real Chi focus on covering Chicago’s West Side. (Vignesh Ramachandran/ProPublica Illinois) This week, we got together with young...
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How Do We Prevent Typos and Other Errors From Appearing in Our Stories?
by Steve Mills At the beginning of the year, we asked ProPublica Illinois readers what they wanted to know about the way we work. Thoughtful, challenging questions have been rolling in ever since, and...
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The U.S. Considered Declaring Russia a State Sponsor of Terror, Then Dropped It
by Sebastian Rotella The attempt to kill a former Russian spy in England bore an ominous signature: The assailants used a lethal nerve agent of a type developed in the Soviet Union, and British...
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A Death in Slow Motion
by Mike Hixenbaugh, Houston Chronicle, and Charles Ornstein, ProPublica James “Lee” Lewis had waited years for a new heart, praying for the day he would be free of the mechanical pump doctors...
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ProPublica Wins Three Deadline Club Awards
by ProPublica Three ProPublica projects won Deadline Club awards in the annual contest honoring the best work by journalists in the New York City area. “Lost Mothers,” a collaboration with NPR about...
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Have You Encountered White Supremacists or Neo-Nazis in the Military? Tell Us.
by A.C. Thompson, ProPublica, and Ali Winston, special to ProPublica The Atomwaffen Division is a violent neo-Nazi group tied to five murders and a bomb plot over the past year. At least some of their...
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An Alarming Tip About a Neo-Nazi Marine, Then an Uncertain Response
by A.C. Thompson, ProPublica, and Ali Winston, special to ProPublica It was Oct. 29, 2017, when Ed Beck decided he had to contact the military police. For weeks, Beck had been tracking the online life...
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Blood Will Tell
by Pamela Colloff I. Most mornings, the sky was still black when Mickey Bryan made the short drive from her house on Avenue O, through the small central Texas town of Clifton, to the elementary...
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A Guide for Digging Through Trump’s Financial Disclosures
by Decca Muldowney, Katherine Sullivan, and Alex Mierjeski When President Donald Trump’s latest financial disclosure form was released last week, we dropped what we were doing and started digging. We...
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Amid Affordable Housing Dispute, Conservatives Seek a Home in Chicago
by Mick Dumke When news broke last week that a proposed affordable housing development on Chicago’s Northwest Side had likely been put on hold, Ammie Kessem, a Republican candidate for state...
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Forced to Choose Between a Job — and a Community
by Alec MacGillis John Arnett chose Adams County, Ohio, as his home long before he was old enough to vote, drink beer or drive a motorcycle along the Ohio River. After his parents split up, Arnett...
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Here’s How ProPublica Analyzed Bud Frazier’s Medicare Outcomes
by Hannah Fresques, Olga Pierce and Charles Ornstein ProPublica and the Houston Chronicle have concluded that Medicare patients whose left ventricular assist devices were implanted by Dr. O.H. “Bud”...
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A Pioneering Heart Surgeon’s Secret History of Research Violations, Conflicts...
by Charles Ornstein, ProPublica, and Mike Hixenbaugh, Houston Chronicle There’s a story Bud Frazier tells often. It was around 1966, and Frazier, now one of the world’s most celebrated heart surgeons,...
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