The Making of a Narco-terrorist
by Ginger Thompson, ProPublica, Susie Cagle, special to ProPublica, and Lena Groeger, ProPublica, Five criminals in far-flung parts of the world, five D.E.A. sting operations, five dubious links...
View ArticleKids Get Hurt at Residential Schools While States Look On
by Annie Waldman After slamming his fists into the wall until his knuckles dripped with blood, the raging teenage boy turned to a staff member and shoved him. The teen had recently been admitted to...
View ArticleHow We Reported ‘An Unbelievable Story of Rape’
by T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, and Ken Armstrong, The people interviewed for this story include Marie (in our story, we agreed to use only here middle name); Marie’s foster mothers Peggy...
View ArticleAn Unbelievable Story of Rape
by T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, and Ken Armstrong, ProPublica The Marshall Project Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate An Unbelievable Story of Rape An 18-year-old said she was...
View ArticleDiscussion: How Not to Handle a Rape Investigation
by Amanda Zamora Detectives investigating a Lynnwood, Washington, teenager’s rape in our latest investigation, An Unbelievable Story of Rape, concluded she hadn’t been assaulted based in part on “her...
View ArticleAsk This Former DEA Agent Anything About Fighting Drug Cartels In Mexico
by Terry Parris Jr. In between Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar and Mexico’s El Chapo, the world’s most powerful drug trafficker, there were the Arellano brothers. In the early 1990s, the Arellano...
View ArticleDevils, Deals and the DEA
by David Epstein ProPublica Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate Tim McDonagh, special to ProPublica Devils, Deals and the DEA Why Chapo Guzman was the biggest winner in the DEA's longest...
View ArticleWe Blew $17 Billion in Afghanistan. How Would You Have Spent It?
by Megan McCloskey, Tobin Asher, Lena Groeger and Sisi Wei, The U.S. government has wasted billions of dollars in Afghanistan, and until now, no one has added it all up. Project after project...
View ArticleUnrestrained
by Heather Vogell ProPublica Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate Pep Montserrat, special to ProPublica Unrestrained While evidence of abuse of the disabled has piled up for decades, one...
View ArticleA Trail of Medical Errors Ends in Grief, But No Answers
by Marshall Allen and Olga Pierce This story was co-published with The Daily Beast. Over the course of her lifetime, Paula Schulte survived painful scoliosis that contorted her spine, a head injury...
View ArticleThe Voices of Patient Harm
by Marshall Allen , Amanda Zamora and Olga Pierce The harm For patients For reporters Donate The voices of patient harm More than 1 million patients suffer harm each year in U.S. health care...
View ArticleA False Rape That Wasn’t, Medical Mistakes and More in MuckReads Weekly
by Adam Harris h3 { font-size:1.2em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-top:1.4em; } blockquote { line-height: 1.5em; } Some of the best #MuckReads we read this week. Want to receive these by email? Sign up...
View ArticleHow We Reported ‘An Unbelievable Story of Rape’
by T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, and Ken Armstrong, The people interviewed for this story include Marie (in our story, we agreed to use only her middle name); Marie’s foster mothers Peggy...
View Article‘Somebody Intervened in Washington’
by Alec MacGillis This story was co-published with Politico Magazine. From his seat in the small plane flying over the largest remaining swath of American wilderness, Bruce Babbitt thought he could...
View ArticleHow ProPublica is (Un)-Covering Politics This Year and Beyond
by Lawrence Roberts Early this year, as the 2016 presidential contest got underway, a ProPublica team began a long-term project to examine the political system. While many other news organizations...
View ArticleInappropriate Social Media Posts by Nursing Home Workers, Detailed
by Charles Ornstein Related story: Nursing Home Workers Share Explicit Photos of Residents on Snapchat Date: January 2012 Facility: CareOne at Livingston City: Livingston State: NJ Type of facility:...
View ArticleNursing Home Workers Share Explicit Photos of Residents on Snapchat
by Charles Ornstein This story was co-published with the Washington Post. Nursing home workers across the country are posting embarrassing and dehumanizing photos of elderly residents on social media...
View ArticleIs the DEA Stopping Narco-terror Threats or Staging Them?
by Cynthia Gordy .player_box { display: none; } div.article-inline-image.Right.demobbed {display: none;} After 9/11, the Drug Enforcement Administration reframed its mission, warning the country that...
View ArticleJudge in Another Narco-terror Case Questions Proof
by Ginger Thompson A federal judge in Washington last week threw out the narco-terrorism conviction of an Afghan man whom U.S. authorities had touted as an example of the dangerous alliances between...
View ArticleA Brutal Crime, Often Terribly Investigated
By T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, and Ken Armstrong, The Marshall Project News organizations have long chronicled problems with investigating reports of rape. Backlogs in rape kits. Cynical efforts...
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