A Disappearing Planet
by Anna Flagg, Special to ProPublicaToday’s extinction rates rival those during the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
View ArticleThe Cost of Texas’ ‘Miracle’ Economy, Gag Orders and EPA Interference...
by Amanda Zamora‘They throw these workers away like tissue paper’ - In a four-part series, the Texas Tribune investigates the cost of the “miracle” economy that Gov. Rick Perry and other state leaders...
View ArticleDispatches From Freedom Summer
div#google_image_div, div.white-list-top, div.list-content, aside.module-2013-follow, aside.module-tabbed-2011 { display:none; }Fifty years ago this summer, hundreds of black and white volunteers...
View ArticleSugar Plant Removed Safety Device 13 Days before Temp Worker’s Death
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View ArticlePodcast: What Design Can Do for Investigative Journalism
by Minhee Cho .player_box { display: none; }Shortly after ProPublica hired David Sleight as our first design director in April, some readers couldn't help but wonder: What exactly does a design...
View ArticleGhosts of Greenwood
by Nikole Hannah-JonesProPublicaView photosShare on FacebookShare on TwitterCommentDonateEdmund Fountain, special to ProPublicaDispatches from Freedom SummerGhosts of GreenwoodA reporter goes to...
View ArticleGhosts of Greenwood: Photos
by Nikole Hannah-JonesProPublicaRead articleShare on FacebookShare on TwitterCommentDonateMississippi State Senator David Jordan photographed in Greenwood City Hall on June 18, 2014. (Edmund Fountain,...
View ArticleHere’s One Way to Land on the NSA’s Watch List
by Julia Angwin and Mike TigasLast week, German journalists revealed that the National Security Agency has a program to collect information about people who use privacy-protecting services, including...
View ArticleNew York State to Pay Millions in Wrongful Conviction Case
by Joaquin SapienNineteen years ago, a Brooklyn Supreme Court judge sentenced Jabbar Collins to a prison term of 34-years-to-life for the murder of Abraham Pollack, a Brooklyn rabbi shot dead in the...
View ArticleU.S. Taxpayers Are Subsidizing Defense of Alleged Killers of Palestinian Teen
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View ArticleSenator Asks OSHA About Temp Worker Buried Alive In Sugar
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View ArticleFanny Pack Mixup Unravels Massive Medicare Fraud Scheme
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View ArticlePentagon Report Finds Litany of Problems with Effort to Recover MIAs
by Megan McCloskey The Defense Department's inspector general has drafted a stinging rebuke of the Pentagon's struggling effort to recover the remains of missing service members from past wars,...
View ArticleMuslim-Americans Caught in NSA Web, Slashed Tesoro Fines and Fake Spinal...
by Amanda ZamoraWho else has NSA been spying on? Several prominent Muslim-Americans, including a longtime GOP operative who served in the Department of Homeland Security under George W. Bush,...
View ArticleGhosts of Greenwood: Audio
by Nikole Hannah-JonesProPublicaRead articleView photosShare on FacebookShare on TwitterCommentDonate“My dad would always say, ‘I’m a man. How old do I have to be to be a man?’”On the page, the words...
View ArticleA Disappearing Planet
by Anna Flagg, Special to ProPublicaToday’s extinction rates rival those during the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
View ArticleWhy Are Obstetricians Among the Top Billers for Group Psychotherapy in Illinois?
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View ArticleHave You Ever Been Sued Over a Debt? Help ProPublica Investigate Collection...
by Paul KielOver the last 15 years, the way consumer debt is pursued has undergone an aggressive transformation. Debt collectors are chasing far more consumers than 10 years ago – currently more than...
View ArticlePodcast: Dispatches from Freedom Summer
by Minhee Cho .player_box { display: none; }For the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer, ProPublica's Nikole Hannah-Jones visited her father's hometown of Greenwood, Miss. for the first time –...
View ArticleIn Desegregation Case, Judge Blasts School Officials and Justice Department
by Nikole Hannah-JonesA federal judge in Alabama has taken the rare step of ruling against a local school board in a desegregation case, rejecting the board's claims that it had done all it could to...
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