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What Facebook’s New Political Ad System Misses
by Jeremy B. Merrill, Ariana Tobin, and Madeleine Varner Facebook’s long-awaited change in how it handles political advertisements is only a first step toward addressing a problem intrinsic to a...
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Do You Work in the Health Insurance Field? ProPublica and NPR Are...
by Marshall Allen I’ve spent the past few months talking to insiders about health insurance and the way we pay for medical care. I’ve learned a lot of important things the public needs to hear. Now...
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Why Your Health Insurer Doesn’t Care About Your Big Bills
by Marshall Allen Michael Frank ran his finger down his medical bill, studying the charges and pausing in disbelief. The numbers didn’t make sense. His recovery from a partial hip replacement had been...
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How Journalist Susie Cagle’s Illustrations Help Us “Follow The Money”
by David Eads Courtesy of Susie Cagle Susie Cagle is one of my favorite journalists, so I was excited to work with her on ProPublica Illinois reporter Mick Dumke’s coverage of the Illinois Policy...
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Video: How More Midwives May Mean Healthier Mothers
by Ranjani Chakraborty Since ProPublica launched Lost Mothers, we’ve covered many facets of the U.S. maternal mortality crisis. Despite spending more per capita on health care than any other country,...
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New Allegations Added to Lawsuit on How Facebook’s Targeting Tools Helped...
by Peter Gosselin Plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit have expanded the scope of their action, alleging that Facebook and other major employers violated federal and state anti-age bias laws by excluding...
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Pictures From an Interrogation: Drawings by Abu Zubaydah
by Raymond Bonner, special to ProPublica, and Tim Golden, ProPublica The CIA spent years trying to probe the mind of Abu Zubaydah, the first terror suspect it subjected to “enhanced interrogation...
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Blood Will Tell, Part II
by Pamela Colloff I. As W. Leon Smith neared the East Texas town of Huntsville, he did not know what to expect. It was a warm September day in 1991, and Smith, a mild-mannered 38-year-old newspaperman...
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About That Hate Crime at a Western Illinois Cemetery
by Logan Jaffe Last February, I took an Amtrak train from New York City to Philadelphia, where vandals had knocked over hundreds of headstones at a Jewish cemetery on Philadelphia’s Northeast side. I...
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An Evening of Stories and Conversations on Hate in Southern California
by ProPublica ProPublica started the Documenting Hate project about 18 months ago to track and cover hate, after observing a surge in reported hate incidents after the 2016 election and learning about...
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St. Luke’s to Suspend Heart Transplants After Recent Deaths
by Charles Ornstein, ProPublica, and Mike Hixenbaugh, Houston Chronicle Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center in Houston temporarily suspended its renowned heart transplant program on Friday following two...
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Hell on Wheels
by Kiera Feldman, Voice of America, special to ProPublica The headquarters of Sanitation Salvage, one of the largest private trash haulers in New York City, is a squat brick building that sits...
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Every Day, a Child is Held Beyond Medical Necessity in Illinois
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Hundreds of Illinois Children Languish in Psychiatric Hospitals After They’re...
by Duaa Eldeib In the spring of 2016, a 12-year-old named Gabriel Brasfield spent 3 ½ months in a psychiatric hospital in Chicago. His hair, which he liked to wear cropped, grew long and unkempt. He...
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Louisiana Lawmakers Are Pushing Bills That Benefit Their Own Businesses. And...
by Rebekah Allen, The Advocate Louisiana state Rep. Lance Harris, one of the Legislature’s most powerful Republicans, has cast himself as a purist when it comes to conflicts of interest among state...
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New in the Congress API: Lobbying Registrations and More
by Derek Willis Lobbying is a daily event in Washington. It’s a complex stream of activity involving lawmakers, interest groups and individuals who want to influence federal policy. Today we’re...
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Legislators in Many States Can Push Bills They’d Profit From
by Decca Muldowney It’s a fundamental part of representative government: Politicians are elected to advocate for their constituents, and not their own interests. But in many states, laws and ethics...
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The Family Plan: In Louisiana, Lawmakers Promote Bills That Help Their...
by Rebekah Allen, The Advocate State Sen. Norby Chabert wanted to offer a helping hand to his district’s truck stop casinos. The number of video poker machines allowed in the casinos is tied to how...
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