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So What Trump Investigations Could Be Coming? — “Trump, Inc.” Podcast Extra
by Andrea Bernstein, WNYC For two years, journalists have operated in an environment in which Congress has declined to inquire into key issues surrounding President Donald Trump’s family business: Is...
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The Election Is Over. And Now the Next Elections Begin.
by Mick Dumke The official slogan of the state of Illinois remains “Land of Lincoln,” and lots of Republicans still live here. But it’s no longer the land of his political party. The GOP isn’t winning...
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The Strange Case of American Diplomats in Cuba: As the Mystery Deepens, So...
by Tim Golden and Sebastian Rotella Leer en español. On the night of May 27, a young woman newly assigned to the United States Embassy in Havana heard a disturbing noise at her home in the city’s...
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El extraño caso de los diplomáticos estadounidenses en Cuba: el misterio se...
par Tim Golden y Sebastian Rotella Read in English. En la noche del 27 de mayo, una mujer joven recién asignada a la embajada de Estados Unidos en La Habana escuchó un ruido molesto en su casa en el...
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Election Day Was Filled With Frustrations, Claims of Mischief and Glimmers of...
by Jessica Huseman Election Day in America brought its familiar mix of misery and allegations of mischief: Aging voting machines crashed; rain-soaked citizens stood in endless lines; laws that many...
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Why Jeff Sessions’ Final Act Could Have More Impact Than Expected
by Ian MacDougall Jeff Sessions hides emotion poorly — his face is reflexively expressive — and last Wednesday night, it betrayed a mixed set of sentiments as he stepped out of the Robert F. Kennedy...
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“Documenting Hate: New American Nazis,” Coming Soon From ProPublica and...
by ProPublica In the wake of the deadly anti-Semitic attack at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, ProPublica and Frontline present a new investigation into white supremacist groups in America —...
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West Virginia’s Natural Gas Industry Keeps Pushing to Whittle Away Payments...
by Ken Ward Jr., The Charleston Gazette-Mail For decades, Arnold and Mary Richards collected monthly royalty checks — most recently from $1,000 to $1,500 — for the natural gas sucked up from beneath...
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Diversion Programs Say They Offer a Path Away From Court, but Critics Say the...
by Rebecca Burns for ProPublica After he was charged in January with burglary, D’Angelo Springer had a decision to make. Springer, 24, had been pulled over after running a stop sign in Kankakee...
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Top Chicago Alderman Adds to Growing Momentum for Ticket and Debt Reform
by Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica, and Elliott Ramos, WBEZ Chicago’s most powerful alderman on Tuesday joined the growing chorus of leaders calling for reforms to the city’s ticketing and debt...
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An Emoluments Suit Against Trump Is Moving Ahead. We Spoke to a Plaintiff...
Eric Umansky There’s lots of talk about congressional investigations of the Trump administration that may be coming. Meanwhile, there is already a push to pull back the veil on the president’s...
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How We Analyzed the Outcomes of Those Freed by Oregon’s Psychiatric Security...
by Jayme Fraser, The Malheur Enterprise, with Decca Muldowney, Gabriel Sandoval and Alex Mierjeski, ProPublica Studies of the criminal justice system rarely consider what happens after insanity...
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What Oregon Officials Knew and When They Knew It
by Jayme Fraser, The Malheur Enterprise The top of the Oregon Psychiatric Security Review Board’s website boasts of its success in reforming people acquitted of crimes because of a mental disorder:...
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Oregon Board Says Those Found Criminally Insane Rarely Commit New Crimes. The...
by Jayme Fraser, The Malheur Enterprise, with Decca Muldowney, Gabriel Sandoval and Alex Mierjeski, ProPublica About 35 percent of people found criminally insane in Oregon and then let out of...
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Century-Old West Virginia Leases Yield Paltry Gas Royalties. A Suit Could Cut...
by Ken Ward Jr., The Charleston Gazette-Mail Linda Stimmell gets upset every time EQT Corp.’s checks arrive in the mail. The energy giant extracts natural gas from beneath the Stimmell family’s old...
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A ProPublica and Malheur Enterprise Forum Asks: What Happens When People...
by ProPublica This year, the Malheur Enterprise and ProPublica have examined how Oregon allows people charged with serious crimes, who were found “guilty except for insanity,” to be released from the...
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Chicago City Council Approves Modest First Reforms on Ticketing and Debt
by Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica, and Elliott Ramos, WBEZ The Chicago City Council on Wednesday approved the first reforms aimed at helping the city’s low-income motorists cope with ticket debt, with...
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Brothers Who Were Online Friends With Pittsburgh Shooting Suspect Had Ties to...
by A.C. Thompson, ProPublica, and Catherine Trautwein, Frontline The morning of the synagogue massacre in Pittsburgh last month, 23-year-old Edward Clark killed himself in a Washington, D.C., park....
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Chicago City Council Members Seek Hearing on Psychiatric Hospital
by Duaa Eldeib Two Chicago City Council members Wednesday called for a hearing to look into reports that children at a psychiatric hospital were physically and sexually abused, including those in...
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Could Your Police Department Be Inflating Rape Clearance Rates?
by Lena V. Groeger, ProPublica, Mark Fahey and Mark Greenblatt, Newsy
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