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One Drug. Two Prices. A Reporter Struggles to Find Out the Cost of His Son’s...
by Charles OrnsteinThis story was co-published with the New York Times' The Upshot. It is not subject to our Creative Commons license.It's not easy being an educated health care consumer.I was...
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Louisiana Coroner Concludes Handcuffed Suspect Killed Himself and More in...
by Amanda Zamora“You can’t make me understand how my son took his left hand, when he was handcuffed behind the back, and shot himself.” A new coroner’s report on the death of a man who died in police...
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California Legislature Passes Bill to Protect Temp Workers
by Michael GrabellThe California legislature has passed a bill that would hold companies legally responsible if the temp agencies and subcontractors they hire cheat workers out of their wages or put...
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Podcast: Louisiana’s Shrinking Coastline
by Minhee Cho .player_box { display: none; }Last week, ProPublica and The Lens, a public interest newsroom in New Orleans, launched a multimedia project exploring how southeast Louisiana is rapidily...
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A Judge’s Status, Robed in Silence
by Terence McGinley, special to ProPublicaThe hall is cavernous on the fourth floor of the Queens Supreme Court building. Whispers feel magnified as they echo amid the marble floors and vaulted...
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In His Professional Twilight, a Son of Mississippi Considers His Legacy on Race
by Joe SextonProPublicaDispatches from Freedom SummerShare on FacebookShare on TwitterCommentDonateStephen Jaffe/AFP/Getty ImagesDispatches from Freedom SummerIn His Professional Twilight, a Son of...
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How New York and Illinois Curb a Key Labor Violation While Other States Fall...
by Ryann Grochowski Jones, ProPublica, and Mike Fitzgerald, Belleville News-Democrat, This story is part of the series called “Contract to Cheat” published by McClatchy DC. The series tracks how...
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Woman Involved in Security Lapse at Arizona Terror Center Stripped of...
by Ryan GabrielsonTo find out more about how a Chinese national gained access to Arizona's terror center, read last week's exclusive piece from ProPublica and The Center for Investigative...
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The Hidden Cost of Gun Violence: Meet a Mother and Her 7-Year-Old With PTSD
by Lois BeckettThis story was co-published with Essence magazine. It is not subject to our Creative Commons license.Last October, Aireana and her boyfriend were driving through Oakland when a man on...
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Missouri’s Misleading Execution Drug Claim and More in MuckReads Weekly
by Amanda Zamora“We will not use those drugs.” Except, they did. George Lombardi, Missouri’s corrections director testified in January that the state would not use Midazolam, a controversial sedative...
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Podcast: Guns, PTSD, and the ‘Data-Free Debate’
by Nicole Collins Bronzan .player_box { display: none; } The trauma that shooting victims suffer lasts long after their physical wounds heal. Oakland mother Aireana found that fear overcame her when...
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U.S. Company Helps Russia Block Prominent Putin Critic
by Sisi WeiThe Russian government’s efforts to silence critics is getting help from an unlikely source: a San Francisco-based blogging company.The company, LiveJournal, shows an error message to users...
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Why Gun Control Groups Have Moved Away from an Assault Weapons Ban
by Lois BeckettThe morning after the Sandy Hook shootings, Shannon Watts, a mother of five and a former public relations executive, started a Facebook page called "One Million Moms for Gun Control."...
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Investors Haul In Nearly Half the Tobacco Settlement Cash
by Cezary Podkul and Claire KellowayEach April, cigarette manufacturers pay states billions of dollars to reimburse them for the health-care costs of smoking. About $100 billion has been paid so far,...
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In Patz Case, a Critical Moment in Court at Last
by Joe SextonFor more about the disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz, a case that frustrated and mystified police for decades, read the story ProPublica produced with WNYC in 2013.From the moment...
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Why Do Democrats Keep Trying to Ban Guns That Look Scary, Not the Guns That...
by Lois BeckettThis story was co-published with the New York Times.Over the past two decades, the majority of Americans in a country deeply divided over gun control have coalesced behind a single...
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Border Patrol’s ‘Trigger-Happy’ Reputation and More in MuckReads Weekly
by Amanda Zamora“Oh, man. I hope I don’t get convicted for this.” What happens when a border patrol agent shoots and kills an unarmed teenager? Nothing, at least in the case of Juan Mendez. Mendez is...
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Getting Sued Over Debt: Readers Tell Their Stories
Debt collection has undergone an aggressive makeover in recent years, with more creditors and collectors going to court to win judgments against consumers, often seizing hundreds of dollars from each...
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Unseen Toll: Wages of Millions Seized to Pay Past Debts
by Paul Kiel, ProPublica, and Chris Arnold, NPR, This story was co-published with NPR.Back in 2009, Kevin Evans was one of millions of Americans blindsided by the recession. His 25-year career selling...
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Podcast: In Big Tobacco Cash, a Boon Turned Burden
by Nicole Collins Bronzan .player_box { display: none; }Remember the landmark Big Tobacco settlement in 1998 that awarded state and local governments billions of dollars a year to reimburse them for...
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