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The Laquan McDonald Shooting Keeps Exposing Critical Flaws in Illinois’...
by Mick Dumke From the day Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke shot and killed Laquan McDonald in 2014, city officials have worked to keep records from the shooting secret. Yet when journalists and...
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Top Cancer Doctor Resigns as Editor of Medical Journal
by Katie Thomas, The New York Times, and Charles Ornstein, ProPublica Dr. José Baselga, the former chief medical officer of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, resigned under pressure on Wednesday...
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VA Was “Taken Advantage Of” by Paying Billions in Fees, Secretary Says
by Isaac Arnsdorf Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie acknowledged on Wednesday that his agency got a bad deal in paying nearly $2 billion in fees to companies responsible for booking veterans...
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Powerless: What It Looks and Sounds Like When a Gas Driller Overruns Your Land
by Ken Ward Jr., The Charleston Gazette-Mail, Al Shaw and Mayeta Clark, ProPublica For decades, coal from West Virginia helped power the nation. Now, natural gas has overtaken coal as an electricity...
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The Ticket Trap
by David Eads and Melissa Sanchez ProPublica Illinois’ interactive database contains more than 54 million parking, standing and vehicle compliance tickets issued since 1996, obtained by ProPublica...
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Bloodstain Analysis Convinced a Jury She Stabbed Her 10-Year-Old Son. Now,...
by Pamela Colloff Julie Rea (Benjamin Rasmussen for The New York Times) This article is a partnership between ProPublica, where Pamela Colloff is a senior reporter, and The New York Times Magazine,...
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How to Use the Ticket Trap, Our New Database That Lets You Explore How...
by David Eads This week, we published a new database that lets you explore how ticketing, debt and the rates at which people appeal their tickets compare across Chicago’s 50 wards. We call it The...
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In Immigrant Children’s Shelters, Sexual Assault Cases Are Open and Shut
by Michael Grabell, Topher Sanders, Silvina Sterin Pensel for ProPublica A World Cup soccer match was playing on the shelter’s TV when the two older teenagers tackled Alex on July 1 and dragged him...
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How a Consultant Said He Gamed HUD Inspections: Sweep Problems Behind a Wall
by Molly Parker, The Southern Illinoisan, and Patrick Johnson, The Republican SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — When housing consultant Joe Reynolds arrived at the Chestnut Park apartment complex here in October...
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Updated: The Hidden Money Funding the Midterms
by Derek Willis, ProPublica, and Maggie Severns, Politico Allies of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell used a blind spot in campaign finance laws to undercut a candidate from their own party this...
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We Found 95 New, Undisclosed Trump Appointees
by Derek Kravitz We have obtained a list of 95 new Trump administration appointees made over the past six months. Following a pattern we’ve detailed before, many of the hires previously worked on...
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Documenting Hate in America: What We Found in 2018
by Rachel Glickhouse Swastikas drawn on the office of a Jewish Ivy League professor. Latinos harassed for speaking Spanish in public. Hijab-wearing women targeted in road rage incidents. Neo-Nazis...
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En los albergues para menores inmigrantes, los casos de agresión sexual se...
por Michael Grabell y Topher Sanders, ProPublica, y Silvina Sterin Pensel, en reporte especial para ProPublica Read in English. La televisión del albergue mostraba un partido de la Copa Mundial cuando...
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Salvadoran Girl Whose Cries Highlighted the Cruelty of Family Separation...
by Ginger Thompson Nadia Sussman/ProPublica This year, the Trump administration turned the United States immigration system on its head, making a program that was once designed to uphold the principle...
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What We Learned From Collecting 100,000 Targeted Facebook Ads
by Jeremy B. Merrill Since we launched our Facebook Political Ad Collector project in fall 2017, more than 16,000 people have participated in it. They all agreed to install a browser plug-in that...
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Happy Holidays From ProPublica Illinois
by ProPublica This was a year of firsts at ProPublica Illinois. We brought you more than 130 stories in 2018, built our first interactive news application, launched a political column, published in...
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How We Measured Involuntary Job Losses Among Older Workers
by Peter Gosselin Today, we’re reporting that more than half of older U.S. workers — those 50 and over — get laid off or pushed out of career positions on their way to retirement, and few ever again...
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On a Reservation, a Second Chance for Prisoners and Their Warden
by Annie Waldman, ProPublica, and Erica L. Green, The New York Times Every day, Ron Jackson walks into work and is reminded of his failures. As the warden of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation adult...
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If You’re Over 50, Chances Are the Decision to Leave a Job Won’t be Yours
by Peter Gosselin Tom Steckel hunched over a laptop in the overheated basement of the state Capitol building in Pierre, South Dakota, early last week, trying to figure out how a newly awarded benefit...
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