The Murder Chicago Didn’t Want to Solve
In 1963, a Black politician named Ben Lewis was shot to death in Chicago. Clues suggest the murder was a professional hit. Decades later, it remains no accident authorities never solved the crime.
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In 1963, a Black politician named Ben Lewis was shot to death in Chicago. Clues suggest the murder was a professional hit. Decades later, it remains no accident authorities never solved the crime.
Mick Dumke ProPublica Feb 2021 30min Permalink
Interviews with 19 current and former officers show how failures of leadership and communication put hundreds of Capitol cops at risk and allowed rioters to get dangerously close to members of Congress on January 6th, 2021.
Joaquin Sapien, Joshua Kaplan ProPublica Feb 2021 25min Permalink
A climate scientist spent years trying to get people to pay attention to the disaster ahead. His wife is exhausted. His older son thinks there’s no future. And nobody but him will use the outdoor toilet he built to shrink his carbon footprint.
Elizabeth Weil ProPublica Jan 2021 15min Permalink
Private executioners paid in cash. Middle-of-the-night killings. False or incomplete justifications.
Isaac Arnsdorf ProPublica Dec 2020 20min Permalink
They were pillars of their communities and families, and they are not replaceable. To understand why COVID-19 killed so many young Black men, you need to know the legend of John Henry.
Akilah Johnson, Nina Martin ProPublica Dec 2020 30min Permalink
Climate change is propelling enormous human migrations as it transforms global agriculture and remakes the world order — and no country stands to gain more than Russia.
Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica Dec 2020 Permalink
For years, JaMarcus Crews tried to get a new kidney, but corporate healthcare stood in the way. He needed dialysis to stay alive. He couldn’t miss a session, not even during a pandemic.
Trawick was alone in his apartment when an officer pushed open the door. He was holding a bread knife and a stick. “Why are you in my home?” he asked. He never got an answer.
Eric Umansky ProPublica Dec 2020 25min Permalink
How the world’s greatest public health organization was brought to its knees by a virus, the president and the capitulation of its own leaders, causing damage that could last much longer than the coronavirus.
James Bandler, Patricia Callahan, Sebastian Rotella, Kirsten Berg ProPublica Oct 2020 50min Permalink
Trump’s trade representative joined the administration with one mission: Bring factory jobs back from overseas. The results so far? Endless trade wars, alienated allies, and a manufacturing recession.
Lydia DePillis ProPublica Oct 2020 25min Permalink
Nelson Cruz’s family was so sure Judge ShawnDya Simpson would free him, they brought a change of clothes to his hearing. Then everything took an unexpected turn.
Joe Sexton ProPublica Oct 2020 50min Permalink
Arise Virtual Solutions, part of the secretive world of work-at-home customer service, helps large corporations shed costs at the expense of workers.
Ken Armstrong, Justin Elliott, Ariana Tobin ProPublica Oct 2020 30min Permalink
Has a desire to keep the coronavirus out of schools put children’s long-term well-being at stake?
Alec MacGillis ProPublica Sep 2020 35min Permalink
Ten years ago, the tax agency formed a special team to unravel the complex tax-lowering strategies of the nation’s wealthiest people. It never had a chance.
Jesse Eisinger, Paul Kiel ProPublica Apr 2019 20min Permalink
In New Orleans, hospitals sent patients infected with the coronavirus into hospice facilities or back to their families to die at home, in some cases discontinuing treatment even as relatives begged them to keep trying.
Annie Waldman, Joshua Kaplan ProPublica Aug 2020 30min Permalink
For the first time, data scientists have modeled how climate refugees might move across international borders. This is what they found.
Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica Jul 2020 40min Permalink
Discount chains are thriving — while fostering violence and neglect in poor communities.
Alec MacGillis ProPublica Jun 2020 30min Permalink
The writer’s family saw an unmarked NYPD cruiser hit a Black teenager. He tried to find out how it happened, and instead found all of the ways the NYPD is shielded from accountability.
Eric Umansky ProPublica Jun 2020 15min Permalink
Deputy Treasury Secretary Justin Muzinich has an increasingly prominent role. He still has ties to his family’s investment firm, which is a major beneficiary of the Treasury’s bailout actions.
Justin Elliott, Lydia DePillis, Robert Faturechi ProPublica Jun 2020 20min Permalink
As someone who’s knocked on countless doors with nothing but a hunch and a prayer, I believe all doomed reporting missions should be seen through to their end. Besides, Zelonka’s pluck was entertaining, and I’d come all this way, so we went, two guys in masks, one zapped on Monster Energy and the other on Starbucks double espresso, roaming an empty office park in Rancho Cucamonga as the world was falling apart.
J. David McSwane ProPublica Jun 2020 30min Permalink
Black patients were losing limbs at triple the rate of others. The doctor put up billboards in the Mississippi Delta. Amputation Prevention Institute, they read. He could save their limbs, if it wasn’t too late.
Lizzie Presser ProPublica May 2020 30min Permalink
“We know we down in this shithole together.”
Kiera Feldman ProPublica Jan 2018 40min Permalink
Federal agencies have hired contractors with no experience to find respirators and masks, fueling a black market filled with price gouging and multiple layers of profiteering brokers. One contractor called them “buccaneers and pirates.”
J. David McSwane ProPublica Mar 2020 20min Permalink
How Amazon’s self-publishing arm became a haven for white supremacists.
Ava Kofman, Francis Tseng, Moira Weigel ProPublica Apr 2020 20min Permalink
Behind the scenes, a small team of FBI agents spent years trying to solve a stubborn mystery — whether officials from Saudi Arabia, one of Washington’s closest allies, were involved in the worst terror attack in U.S. history. This is their story.
Tim Golden, Sebastian Rotella ProPublica Jan 2020 50min Permalink