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American Voting Machines Are Old and Vulnerable, But Who Will Pay for New Ones?
by Mac Schneider, Vox, and Kate Rabinowitz, special to ProPublica Congress has approved $380 million to fund state efforts to address the security of election systems ahead of the 2018 midterm...
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ProPublica’s ‘Too Broke for Bankruptcy’ Wins ASNE Award
ProPublica The American Society of News Editors announced “Too Broke for Bankruptcy” by Paul Kiel and Hannah Fresques as the winner of its 2018 Dori J. Maynard Award for Justice in Journalism. The...
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Trump’s Labor Department Eviscerates Workplace Safety Panels
by Rebecca Moss, The Santa Fe New Mexican Last October, Gregory Junemann received a brief email from an official at the U.S. Department of Labor effectively firing him and 15 others from a volunteer...
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How Overbuilt Levees Along the Upper Mississippi River Push Floods Onto Others
Al Shaw and Lisa Song
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Inside a Secretive Lobbying Effort to Deregulate Federal Levees
by Lisa Song, ProPublica, Patrick Michels, Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, and Alex Heeb, The Telegraph of Alton, Illinois Nearly a year after record Midwestern floods killed at...
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John Bolton Skewed Intelligence, Say People Who Worked With Him
by Sebastian Rotella In early 2002, as the Bush administration hunted for Osama bin Laden, pressed its war in Afghanistan and set its sights on Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, John Bolton saw another looming...
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New Model Shows Towns on the Wrong Side of an Illinois Levee District Are...
by Lisa Song and Al Shaw, ProPublica, Patrick Michels, Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, and Alex Heeb, The Telegraph of Alton, Illinois For years, the residents of Pike County,...
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Takeaways From Our First Free Street Theater Journalism Workshop
by Natalie Escobar As you may know, ProPublica Illinois is partnering with Free Street Theater and Illinois Humanities to host theater-journalism workshops across the state. The goal is to bring...
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Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan Builds Power From the Ground Up — And...
by Mick Dumke ProPublica Illinois reporter Mick Dumke looks at the state’s political issues and personalities in this occasional column. At first it didn’t seem to make sense. There were no obvious...
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A Betrayal
by Hannah Dreier If Henry is killed, his death can be traced to a quiet moment in the fall of 2016, when he sat slouched in his usual seat by the door in 11th-grade English class. A skinny kid with a...
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ProPublica and NPR Win Investigative Reporters and Editors Award
ProPublica Investigative Reporters and Editors announced today that the ProPublica and NPR collaboration, “They Got Hurt at Work, Then They Got Deported,” won the IRE Award in the Radio/Audio - Large...
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Addiction Drug’s Side Effect: More Overdoses?
by Alec MacGillis At the very moment that the Trump administration has thrown its weight behind a particular medication meant to deter opioid addiction, a new paper in a public-health journal is...
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Help Us Dive Into the Swamp — ‘Trump, Inc.’ Podcast
by Eric Umansky This week, we’re doing a couple of things differently on “Trump, Inc.” Instead of focusing on President Donald Trump’s businesses, we’re looking more broadly at business interests in...
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Here’s How You Can Use Trump Town
by Derek Kravitz and Al Shaw, ProPublica, and Alex Mierjeski for ProPublica President Donald Trump sits atop a sprawling executive branch, with thousands of hand-picked lieutenants across dozens of...
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How Do You Identify Fake News?
by Vignesh Ramachandran At the beginning of the year, we asked ProPublica Illinois readers what they wanted to know about how we do our work. Thoughtful, challenging questions have been rolling in...
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Teenage MS-13 Gang Informant Heads Into Final Asylum Hearing
by Hannah Dreier Henry had finished his overnight shift in the jail cafeteria on Tuesday and was lying on his bunk listening to Spanish rap when he was called up to the administrative office....
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Four Ways to Fix Facebook
by Julia Angwin Gathered in a Washington, D.C., ballroom last Thursday for their annual “tech prom,” hundreds of tech industry lobbyists and policy makers applauded politely as announcers read out the...
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HUD Long Neglected These Residents. Now As They Move Out, Some Feel HUD Let...
by Molly Parker, The Southern Illinoisan CAIRO, Ill. — For years, residents of public housing complexes here were stuck living in aging and neglected buildings with inoperable heat, leaky ceilings,...
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In Small-Town America, the Public Housing Crisis Nobody’s Talking About
by Molly Parker, The Southern Illinoisan It’s a Sunday morning in late February at the tiny Baptist church atop the hill in Thebes, a remote village of about 400 people in the southernmost part of...
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Teen Who Faced Deportation After He Informed on MS-13 Gets Temporary Reprieve
by Hannah Dreier What was on track to be a routine deportation hearing in a New York City immigration courtroom Thursday turned into an hours-long administrative battle and a detailed airing of a...
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