When the Calendar Requires the Release of Insanity Defendants in Oregon, Harm...
by Jayme Fraser, The Malheur Enterprise After Sean Rieschel punched a woman at a laundromat for refusing to give him $3.50, he was found “guilty except for insanity” in 2010 and sent to the Oregon...
View ArticleDistrict of Despair: On a Montana Reservation, Schools Favor Whites Over...
by Annie Waldman, ProPublica, and Erica L. Green, The New York Times The faint scars on Ruth Fourstar’s arms testify to a difficult life on Fort Peck Indian Reservation — the physical and emotional...
View ArticleWhat I Learned Covering HUD: Oversight Failures Are Symptoms of Deeper...
by Molly Parker, The Southern Illinoisan When I pulled my Jeep into the Clay Arsenal neighborhood in Hartford, Connecticut, in July, I knew intuitively that I had arrived by the sights of neglect:...
View ArticleWhat’s It Like for an Immigrant Child to Have a Glimpse of the American...
by Ginger Thompson Christmas wasn’t going to be much this year at the Maldonados’ tiny home in eastern El Salvador. Then 6-year-old Wilder arrived, lugging a duffel bag fat with the brightly colored...
View Article6 Young Men, Given Adult Sentences for “Minor” Infractions, Are Freed in...
by Duaa Eldeib Six young men who had been sentenced to lengthy adult prison terms for committing what were described as minor infractions at a southern Illinois youth correctional facility went free...
View ArticleThe Hunted
by Kavitha Surana and Hannah Dreier The friends had liked Gerson Saravia from the start. With his halting English and scrawny arms that stuck out like sticks from the tank tops he wore, he reminded...
View ArticleMemorial Sloan Kettering’s Season of Turmoil
by Katie Thomas, The New York Times, and Charles Ornstein, ProPublica Hundreds of doctors packed an auditorium at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center on Oct. 1, deeply angered by revelations that...
View ArticleHow the Trash Industry Worked Overtime Trying to Thwart New York City’s...
by Kiera Feldman for ProPublica In the summer of 2016, New York City government officials called for reforming the city’s private trash industry, calling it chaotic, dangerous and inefficient. Each...
View ArticleMeet ProPublica’s New Emerging Reporters
by Katie Zavadski Like many news organizations, ProPublica is committed to increasing its own diversity. But we also deeply believe in bolstering diversity in investigative journalism more broadly, in...
View ArticleWill Pelosi Open the Floor to Bipartisan Ideas?
by Derek Willis Nancy Pelosi is returning as speaker of the House of Representatives amid a partisan standoff that has made it virtually impossible to move forward on major legislation requiring the...
View ArticlePara un niño inmigrante, ¿cómo resulta vislumbrar el sueño americano para que...
by Ginger Thompson Read in English. La Navidad de este año no iba a ser mucha cosa en el pequeño hogar de los Maldonado en la parte Oriental de El Salvador. Pero luego llegó Wilder, de 6 años de edad,...
View ArticleAudit Finds Austin, Texas, Improperly Cleared Rapes
by Mark Greenblatt and Mark Fahey, Newsy, Bernice Yeung, ProPublica, and Emily Harris, Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting WASHINGTON — An independent audit by Texas officials found...
View ArticleU.S. to Investigate Discrimination Against Native American Students on...
by Annie Waldman, ProPublica, and Erica L. Green, The New York Times A year and a half after receiving a detailed complaint from tribal leaders, the U.S. Department of Education plans to investigate...
View ArticleFeeling Trapped by Vehicle Tickets? Let’s Talk About It — Live
by Derrick Clifton Nobody likes getting ticketed. Our reporting on how Chicago’s vehicle ticketing and collection policies and practices have disproportionately saddled low-income and black motorists...
View Article“Get Out”: Black Families Harassed in Their Own Homes
by Rahima Nasa and Rachel Glickhouse In Delano, Minnesota, a black family’s home was broken into in March 2017 and a warning was spray-painted on the walls: “Get out.” The vandals left a note, too:...
View ArticleTop Cancer Doctor, Forced Out Over Ties to Drug Makers, Joins Their Ranks
by Katie Thomas, The New York Times, and Charles Ornstein, ProPublica Dr. José Baselga, who resigned his position as the top doctor at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center after failing to disclose...
View ArticleSay What? How Reporters Gather and Use Quotations
by Steve Mills A year ago, we asked ProPublica Illinois readers what they wanted to know about how we do our work. Thoughtful and challenging questions have been rolling in ever since, and we’ve been...
View ArticleCan the U.S. Military Build a Border Wall Even as It Struggles to Rebuild...
by Joe Sexton In late March 2018, President Donald Trump and then-Defense Secretary James Mattis discussed the idea that the U.S. military could help the president achieve one of his cherished aims:...
View ArticleProposal Seeks to Give New York’s Private Trash Industry Watchdog Sharper Teeth
by Kiera Feldman for ProPublica The chairman of the New York City Council’s Sanitation Committee introduced a bill Wednesday that would authorize the agency overseeing the private trash industry to...
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