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Group to Send Lawyers to Help Incarcerated Teens
by Duaa Eldeib Young men in custody at a youth correctional facility in southern Illinois may soon have private attorneys to represent them in court after officials said they were concerned about...
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New Commissioner Says FTC Should Get Tough on Companies Like Facebook and Google
by Jesse Eisinger Declaring that “the credibility of law enforcement and regulatory agencies has been undermined by the real or perceived lax treatment of repeat offenders,” newly installed Democratic...
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ProPublica Illinois Wins Four Awards from Chicago Headline Club
by ProPublica ProPublica Illinois took home four Peter Lisagor Awards at the Chicago Headline Club’s annual awards dinner on May 11. The ProPublica Illinois and Chicago Tribune project “The Tax...
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At a Killer’s Sentencing, Native Americans Talk of Both Healing and Enduring...
by Rahima Nasa The May 11 sentencing of James Walker proceeded as planned inside Grays Harbor, Washington, Superior Court: The 32-year-old pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the second degree in the...
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Police Are Mislabeling Anti-LGBTQ and Other Crimes as Anti-Heterosexual
by Rachel Glickhouse and Rahima Nasa Rob heard a loud knock at his door late one night in August 2014. His landlord had been calling him about maintenance issues in his Columbus, Ohio, apartment, but...
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Help Us Investigate Care at the Texas Medical Center
by Mike Hixenbaugh, Houston Chronicle, and Charles Ornstein, ProPublica The Texas Medical Center is the largest medical complex in the world, home to major hospitals, medical schools and a host of...
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As Wait for New Heart Got Longer, Patient Grew Sicker
by Mike Hixenbaugh, Houston Chronicle, and Charles Ornstein, ProPublica In early 2014, when Travis Hogan’s malformed heart was failing, his longtime doctors at Texas Children’s Hospital referred him...
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At St. Luke’s in Houston, Patients Suffer as a Renowned Heart Transplant...
by Charles Ornstein, ProPublica, and Mike Hixenbaugh, Houston Chronicle The anonymous letter reached Judy Kveton in March 2017. Nearly two months earlier, her husband’s failed heart transplant at...
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Federal Watchdog Launches Investigation of Age Bias at IBM
by Peter Gosselin The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has launched a nationwide probe of age bias at IBM in the wake of a ProPublica investigation showing the company has flouted or...
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ProPublica, ProPublica Illinois Win Three Excellence in Financial Journalism...
by ProPublica The ProPublica Illinois and Chicago Tribune project “The Tax Divide” is the winner of two 2018 Excellence in Financial Journalism awards in the best local reporting and public service...
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“Trump, Inc.” Live: From “The Art of the Deal” to the Dossier
by ProPublica A few days ago, we held a live taping of the “Trump, Inc.” podcast at The Greene Space in New York City. Tony Schwartz, the co-author with Donald Trump of “The Art of The Deal,” talked...
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How a Typical Government Leak Turned Into a Three-Way War Between Comey,...
by Peter Elkind One of them has to be lying. That conclusion is inescapable if you closely examine the sworn testimony of two erstwhile FBI allies, James Comey and Andrew McCabe, about the leaking...
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You’re Entitled to Government Transparency
by Vignesh Ramachandran Editors and reporters from learning newsroom Real Chi focus on covering Chicago’s West Side. (Vignesh Ramachandran/ProPublica Illinois) This week, we got together with young...
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How Do We Prevent Typos and Other Errors From Appearing in Our Stories?
by Steve Mills At the beginning of the year, we asked ProPublica Illinois readers what they wanted to know about the way we work. Thoughtful, challenging questions have been rolling in ever since, and...
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The U.S. Considered Declaring Russia a State Sponsor of Terror, Then Dropped It
by Sebastian Rotella The attempt to kill a former Russian spy in England bore an ominous signature: The assailants used a lethal nerve agent of a type developed in the Soviet Union, and British...
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A Death in Slow Motion
by Mike Hixenbaugh, Houston Chronicle, and Charles Ornstein, ProPublica James “Lee” Lewis had waited years for a new heart, praying for the day he would be free of the mechanical pump doctors...
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ProPublica Wins Three Deadline Club Awards
by ProPublica Three ProPublica projects won Deadline Club awards in the annual contest honoring the best work by journalists in the New York City area. “Lost Mothers,” a collaboration with NPR about...
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Have You Encountered White Supremacists or Neo-Nazis in the Military? Tell Us.
by A.C. Thompson, ProPublica, and Ali Winston, special to ProPublica The Atomwaffen Division is a violent neo-Nazi group tied to five murders and a bomb plot over the past year. At least some of their...
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An Alarming Tip About a Neo-Nazi Marine, Then an Uncertain Response
by A.C. Thompson, ProPublica, and Ali Winston, special to ProPublica It was Oct. 29, 2017, when Ed Beck decided he had to contact the military police. For weeks, Beck had been tracking the online life...
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Blood Will Tell
by Pamela Colloff I. Most mornings, the sky was still black when Mickey Bryan made the short drive from her house on Avenue O, through the small central Texas town of Clifton, to the elementary...
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