The Flooding Will Come “No Matter What”: Climate Change is Already Forcing People From Their Homes ( www.propublica.org )
Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe ( www.propublica.org )
Former Far-Right Hard-Liner Says Billionaires Are Using School Board Races to Sow Distrust in Public Education ( www.propublica.org )
Whistleblower Says Microsoft Dismissed Warnings About a Security Flaw That Russians Later Used to Hack U.S. Government ( www.propublica.org )
New Yorkers Were Choked, Beaten and Tased by NYPD Officers. The Commissioner Buried Their Cases. ( www.propublica.org )
How Many of Your State’s Lawmakers Are Women? If You Live in the Southeast, It Could Be Just 1 in 5 ( www.propublica.org )
A record number of women were elected to statehouses last year. But in the Southeast, where some legislatures are more than 80% male, representation is lagging as lawmakers pass bills that most impact women, like near-total abortion bans....
The Delusion of “Advanced” Plastic Recycling ( www.propublica.org )
Wisconsin Picks New Legislative Maps That Would End Years of GOP Gerrymandering ( www.propublica.org )
The Federal Government Just Acknowledged the Harm Its Dams Have Caused Tribes. Here’s What It Left Out. ( www.propublica.org )
Syphilis Is Killing Babies. The U.S. Government Is Failing to Stop the Disease From Spreading. ( www.propublica.org )
Texas’ Attorney General Is Increasingly Using Consumer Protection Laws to Pursue Political Targets ( www.propublica.org )
Ten Years After the Flint Water Crisis, Distrust and Anger Linger ( www.propublica.org )
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More States Are Allowing Child Support Payments to Reach Children ( www.propublica.org )
Conservatives Go to War — Against Each Other — Over School Vouchers ( www.propublica.org )
U.N. Has Flown More Than $2.9 Billion in Cash to Afghanistan Since the Taliban Seized Power, Diverting U.S. Funds ( www.propublica.org )
Staff Warned About the Lack of Psychiatric Care at a VA Clinic. They Couldn’t Prevent Tragedy. ( www.propublica.org )
From the outside, it looked like a haven for heroes: a state-of-the-art building with a gleaming atrium, a large American flag flying out front. But the clinic hadn’t had a full-time, on-site psychiatrist in five years. A single nurse was responsible for connecting hundreds of veterans, some with serious mental illness or...
Texas’ Attorney General Is Increasingly Using Consumer Protection Laws to Pursue Political Targets ( www.propublica.org )
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“Everyone Will Die in Prison”: How Louisiana’s Plan to Lock People Up Longer Imperils Its Sickest Inmates ( www.propublica.org )
When Railroad Workers Get Hurt on the Job, Some Supervisors Go to Extremes to Keep It Quiet ( www.propublica.org )
As the U.S. Struggles With a Stillbirth Crisis, Australia Offers a Model for How to Do Better ( www.propublica.org )
Australia has emerged as a global leader in the effort to lower the number of babies that die before taking their first breaths. It’s an approach that could benefit America, which lags behind other wealthy nations in reducing stillbirths....
“Everyone Will Die in Prison”: How Louisiana’s Plan to Lock People Up Longer Imperils Its Sickest Inmates ( www.propublica.org )
21 Bodycam Videos Caught the NYPD Wrongly Arresting Black Kids on Halloween. Why Can’t the Public See the Footage? ( www.propublica.org )
ProPublica editor-at-large Eric Umansky started investigating police oversight after an NYPD officer hit a teenager with a car in 2019. In the years since, he’s learned how police departments have undermined the promise of body-worn cameras.