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...
View ArticleA Guide for Digging Through Trump’s Financial Disclosures
by Decca Muldowney, Katherine Sullivan, and Alex Mierjeski When President Donald Trump’s latest financial disclosure form was released last week, we dropped what we were doing and started digging. We...
View ArticleAmid Affordable Housing Dispute, Conservatives Seek a Home in Chicago
by Mick Dumke When news broke last week that a proposed affordable housing development on Chicago’s Northwest Side had likely been put on hold, Ammie Kessem, a Republican candidate for state...
View ArticleForced to Choose Between a Job — and a Community
by Alec MacGillis John Arnett chose Adams County, Ohio, as his home long before he was old enough to vote, drink beer or drive a motorcycle along the Ohio River. After his parents split up, Arnett...
View ArticleHere’s How ProPublica Analyzed Bud Frazier’s Medicare Outcomes
by Hannah Fresques, Olga Pierce and Charles Ornstein ProPublica and the Houston Chronicle have concluded that Medicare patients whose left ventricular assist devices were implanted by Dr. O.H. “Bud”...
View ArticleA Pioneering Heart Surgeon’s Secret History of Research Violations, Conflicts...
by Charles Ornstein, ProPublica, and Mike Hixenbaugh, Houston Chronicle There’s a story Bud Frazier tells often. It was around 1966, and Frazier, now one of the world’s most celebrated heart surgeons,...
View ArticleWhat Facebook’s New Political Ad System Misses
by Jeremy B. Merrill, Ariana Tobin, and Madeleine Varner Facebook’s long-awaited change in how it handles political advertisements is only a first step toward addressing a problem intrinsic to a...
View ArticleDo You Work in the Health Insurance Field? ProPublica and NPR Are...
by Marshall Allen I’ve spent the past few months talking to insiders about health insurance and the way we pay for medical care. I’ve learned a lot of important things the public needs to hear. Now...
View ArticleWhy Your Health Insurer Doesn’t Care About Your Big Bills
by Marshall Allen Michael Frank ran his finger down his medical bill, studying the charges and pausing in disbelief. The numbers didn’t make sense. His recovery from a partial hip replacement had been...
View ArticleHow Journalist Susie Cagle’s Illustrations Help Us “Follow The Money”
by David Eads Courtesy of Susie Cagle Susie Cagle is one of my favorite journalists, so I was excited to work with her on ProPublica Illinois reporter Mick Dumke’s coverage of the Illinois Policy...
View ArticleVideo: How More Midwives May Mean Healthier Mothers
by Ranjani Chakraborty Since ProPublica launched Lost Mothers, we’ve covered many facets of the U.S. maternal mortality crisis. Despite spending more per capita on health care than any other country,...
View ArticleNew Allegations Added to Lawsuit on How Facebook’s Targeting Tools Helped...
by Peter Gosselin Plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit have expanded the scope of their action, alleging that Facebook and other major employers violated federal and state anti-age bias laws by excluding...
View ArticlePictures From an Interrogation: Drawings by Abu Zubaydah
by Raymond Bonner, special to ProPublica, and Tim Golden, ProPublica The CIA spent years trying to probe the mind of Abu Zubaydah, the first terror suspect it subjected to “enhanced interrogation...
View ArticleBlood Will Tell, Part II
by Pamela Colloff I. As W. Leon Smith neared the East Texas town of Huntsville, he did not know what to expect. It was a warm September day in 1991, and Smith, a mild-mannered 38-year-old newspaperman...
View ArticleAbout That Hate Crime at a Western Illinois Cemetery
by Logan Jaffe Last February, I took an Amtrak train from New York City to Philadelphia, where vandals had knocked over hundreds of headstones at a Jewish cemetery on Philadelphia’s Northeast side. I...
View ArticleAn Evening of Stories and Conversations on Hate in Southern California
by ProPublica ProPublica started the Documenting Hate project about 18 months ago to track and cover hate, after observing a surge in reported hate incidents after the 2016 election and learning about...
View ArticleSt. Luke’s to Suspend Heart Transplants After Recent Deaths
by Charles Ornstein, ProPublica, and Mike Hixenbaugh, Houston Chronicle Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center in Houston temporarily suspended its renowned heart transplant program on Friday following two...
View ArticleHell on Wheels
by Kiera Feldman, Voice of America, special to ProPublica The headquarters of Sanitation Salvage, one of the largest private trash haulers in New York City, is a squat brick building that sits...
View ArticleEvery Day, a Child is Held Beyond Medical Necessity in Illinois
by Duaa Eldeib, David Eads and Vignesh Ramachandran View on mobile browser.
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