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How We Made Our Illinois Governor’s Campaign Finance Widget
by David Eads Loading... Hi! I’m David Eads, news apps developer at ProPublica Illinois. I want to tell you about a widget we released last week that tracks fundraising in the Illinois governor’s...
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The Trump Administration Goes to War — With Itself — Over the VA
by Isaac Arnsdorf David Shulkin, the secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, showed up to what he thought would be a routine Senate oversight hearing in January, only to discover it was an...
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How Political Pessimism Helps Doom Tougher Gun Laws
by Alec MacGillis It’s predictable after every new mass-shooting horror: The political right’s reflexive call for “thoughts and prayers,” which is then mocked by people who favor more gun restrictions...
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Election Security a High Priority — Until It Comes to Paying for New Voting...
by Kate Rabinowitz When poll workers arrived at 6 a.m. to open the voting location in Allentown, New Jersey, for last November’s gubernatorial election, they found that none of the borough’s four...
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When Is a Story Ready to Publish?
by Melissa Sanchez Recently, we asked ProPublica Illinois readers what they wanted to know about how we do our work. Questions have been rolling in ever since, and we’ve been answering them in an...
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ProPublica and NPR’s ‘Lost Mothers’ Wins Polk Award for Medical Reporting
ProPublica ProPublica reporter Nina Martin and NPR special correspondent Renee Montagne won this year’s George Polk Award in Journalism in the medical reporting category, for their “Lost Mothers”...
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‘Trump, Inc.’ Podcast: Russia, Trump and ‘Alternative Financing’
by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica, and Andrea Bernstein, WNYC Subscribe to “Trump, Inc.” here or wherever you get your podcasts. After special counsel Robert Mueller indicted 13 Russians for an intensive,...
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Video: This Obscure Plea Deal Offers Freedom to the Wrongfully Convicted at a...
by Ranjani Chakraborty and Megan Rose In 1987, police detectives — who’d later be made famous by David Simon, creator of “The Wire” — used flimsy evidence to pin a burglary, rape and murder case on...
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A Larger Role for Midwives Could Improve Deficient U.S. Care for Mothers and...
by Nina Martin In Great Britain, midwives deliver half of all babies, including Kate Middleton’s first two children, Prince George and Princess Charlotte. In Sweden, Norway and France, midwives...
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Inside Atomwaffen As It Celebrates a Member for Allegedly Killing a Gay...
by A.C. Thompson, ProPublica, Ali Winston, special to ProPublica, and Jake Hanrahan, special to ProPublica Late last month, ProPublica reported that the California man accused of killing a gay and...
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Bringing Theater and Investigative Reporters to You
by Terry Parris Jr. and Logan Jaffe, ProPublica, and Coya Paz, Free Street Theater Get Email Updates from ProPublica Illinois We told you two weeks ago that we were headed to Toulon as part of our...
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Census Rushes to Respond to Request to Add Citizenship Question
by Justin Elliott The Census Bureau is scrambling to respond to a last-minute request by the Justice Department to add a question on citizenship status to the 2020 census, according to hundreds of...
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What’s Ahead for Documenting Hate in 2018
by Rachel Glickhouse ProPublica is expanding its Documenting Hate project, including new partnerships and staff. Launched in January of 2017, the project tracks hate crimes and bias incidents in the...
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Federal Watchdog Identifies New Workplace Safety Problems at Los Alamos Lab
by Rebecca Moss, The Santa Fe New Mexican Los Alamos National Laboratory has failed to keep track of a toxic metal used in nuclear weapons production, potentially exposing workers to serious health...
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ProPublica Is Seeking a Partner Manager for Electionland
by ProPublica ProPublica is seeking a partner manager to work on Electionland, a collaborative journalism project that covers voting rights and election integrity in the 2018 midterm elections....
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The Many Roads to Bankruptcy
by Melissa Sanchez We’ve been reporting on how unpaid parking and automated traffic camera tickets can quickly spiral out of control for Chicago’s working poor, and particularly for African Americans....
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How Chicago Ticket Debt Sends Black Motorists Into Bankruptcy
by Melissa Sanchez and Sandhya Kambhampati
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Top Lawmakers Call for Investigation of DEA-Led Unit in Mexico
by Ginger Thompson Powerful Democrats in both the House and Senate called Tuesday for an investigation into Drug Enforcement Administration-led operations in Mexico that played a role in triggering...
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ProPublica’s ‘Documenting Hate’ Named a Finalist for 2017 Scripps Howard...
ProPublica The Scripps Howard Foundation announced today that the ProPublica-spearheaded project “Documenting Hate” is a finalist for the 2017 Scripps Howard Award for Topic of the Year. The...
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‘Trump, Inc.’ Podcast: David Fahrenthold and the Mysterious Loan Trump Made...
by Eric Umansky, ProPublica, and Ilya Marritz, WNYC Listeners have been sending us lots of questions about President Donald Trump and his businesses. So we sat down with one of the best in the...
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