What We Discovered During a Year of Documenting Hate
by Rachel Glickhouse The days after Election Day last year seemed to bring with them a rise in hate crimes and bias incidents. Reports filled social media and appeared in local news. There were the...
View ArticleComing Soon From ProPublica and BBC News: ‘What Are We Going to Do About Tyler?’
by ProPublica Tyler Haire was locked up at 16. A judge ordered that he undergo a mental exam. You won’t believe what didn’t happen next. Sign up to be notified when this ProPublica/BBC News...
View ArticleHow We Measured Birth Complications
by Annie Waldman For our analysis of birth complications, we acquired all inpatient discharge records of hospital stays for a two-year period (2014 and 2015) across three states: New York, Florida and...
View ArticleWe’ve Updated Our Treatment Tracker
by Lena Groeger, Charles Ornstein, Ryann Grochowski Jones
View ArticleSome Doctors Still Billing Medicare for the Most Complicated, Expensive...
by Charles Ornstein and Ryann Grochowski Jones Thousands of times a year, Medicare patients file into Dr. Mark Roberts’ family practice clinic in rural Evergreen, Alabama, for standard office visits....
View ArticleHow Hospitals Are Failing Black Mothers
by Annie Waldman NEW YORK — When Dacheca Fleurimond decided to give birth at SUNY Downstate Medical Center earlier this year, her sister tried to talk her out of it. Her sister had recently delivered...
View ArticleWho Would Pay $26,000 to Work in a Chicken Plant?
by Michael Grabell The first week Yongho Yeom worked on the chicken line at the House of Raeford poultry plant was like nothing he had ever imagined as a computer engineer in South Korea. Supervisors...
View ArticleWar at Home
by Ranjani Chakraborty and Abrahm Lustgarten The United States has built the most powerful military in the world. That strength has come at a largely unknown cost. The testing and disposal of the...
View ArticleWant to Lower Health Care Costs? Stop Wasting Our Money.
by Marshall Allen In Maine, there’s a warehouse the size of a middle school gymnasium, stuffed with brand-new medical supplies and gently used medical equipment. Several pallets are piled with boxes...
View ArticleFacebook’s Uneven Enforcement of Hate Speech Rules Allows Vile Posts to Stay Up
by Ariana Tobin, Madeleine Varner and Julia Angwin The graphic content of some of the posts reprinted within this article may offend some readers. However, our belief is that readers cannot fully...
View ArticleWhat Does Facebook Consider Hate Speech?
by Madeleine Varner, Ariana Tobin, Julia Angwin and Jeff Larson
View ArticleCalculating the Work Behind Our Work
by Louise Kiernan At ProPublica, one of our watchwords is transparency. We want you see how we do our work. That’s why we publish the data we use in our stories and produce reports three times a year...
View ArticleHow a Local Bureaucrat Made Millions Amid the Rush to Build a Border Fence
by Kiah Collier and Julián Aguilar, The Texas Tribune, and T. Christian Miller, ProPublica
View ArticleTrump Justice Department Pushes for Citizenship Question on Census, Alarming...
by Justin Elliott The Justice Department is pushing for a question on citizenship to be added to the 2020 census, a move that observers say could depress participation by immigrants who fear that the...
View ArticleTaking Care to Get a Mississippi Scandal Right
by Sarah Smith When I arrived, the sheriff was wary of me. I was a visitor to his rural Mississippi county; worse, I was a reporter from New York City. He summed up his skepticism this way: Every time...
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