Death and Valor on an American Warship Doomed by its Own Navy
An investigation into the crash of the USS Fitzgerald.
An investigation into the crash of the USS Fitzgerald.
T. Christian Miller, Megan Rose, Robert Faturechi ProPublica Feb 2019 1h10min Permalink
Alex drew his school’s mascot during class.Then he was suspended, arrested and deported. How high schools have embraced the Trump administration’s crackdown on MS-13 and destroyed immigrant students’ American dreams.
Hannah Dreier ProPublica Dec 2018 45min Permalink
How prosecutors used bloodstain-pattern analysis to convict an innocent woman of murdering her son.
Pamela Colloff ProPublica Dec 2018 20min Permalink
An eight-year campaign to slash the agency’s budget has left it understaffed, hamstrung and operating with archaic equipment. The result: billions less to fund the government. That’s good news for corporations and the wealthy.
Paul Kiel, Jesse Eisinger ProPublica Dec 2018 25min Permalink
In 2016, a West Virginia police officer came upon a young man in distress who asked the officer to shoot him. The officer didn’t. A few minutes, another officer did. Only one of them lost their job.
Joe Sexton ProPublica Nov 2018 55min Permalink
How a U.S. law intended to reduce dependence on fossil fuels has unleashed an environmental disaster in Indonesia.
Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica Nov 2018 35min Permalink
A reporter encounters the echoes of family and the struggle for civil rights in Mississippi.
Nikole Hannah-Jones ProPublica Jul 2014 30min Permalink
Chad Walde believed in his work at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Then he got a rare brain cancer linked to radiation, and the government denied it had any responsibility.
Rebecca Moss ProPublica Oct 2018 40min Permalink
An acclaimed American charity said it was saving some of the world’s most vulnerable girls from sexual exploitation. But from the very beginning, girls were being raped.
Finlay Young ProPublica Oct 2018 55min Permalink
Why did it take so long for the systems that are supposed to police problem doctors to stop him from operating?
Laura Beil ProPublica Oct 2018 35min Permalink
Police on Long Island wrote off missing immigrant teens as runaways. One mother knew better—and searched MS-13’s killing fields for answers.
Hannah Dreier ProPublica Sep 2018 35min Permalink
Minara Akhter came to America with uncertainty and hope. Then her husband, a Muslim religious leader, was murdered in a suspected hate crime.
Rahima Nasa ProPublica Sep 2018 15min Permalink
From a new Supreme Court ruling to a census question about citizenship, the campaign against illegal registration is thriving. But when the top proponent was challenged in a Kansas courtroom to prove that such fraud is rampant, the claims went up in smoke.
Jessica Huseman ProPublica Jun 2018 25min Permalink
How one of New York’s major trash haulers does business.
Kiera Feldman ProPublica Jun 2018 30min Permalink
The murder of Mickey Bryan stunned her small Texas town. Then her husband was charged with killing her. Did he do it, or had there been a terrible mistake?
Pamela Colloff ProPublica May 2018 45min Permalink
Jimmy Smith-Kramer, a basketball legend on the Quinault Nation reservation, was 20 when he was mowed down by a white man in a pickup truck. The decision not to charge a hate crime, and recent talk of a plea deal, has re-opened ancient wounds.
Rahima Nasa ProPublica Apr 2018 20min Permalink
How Jerry Falwell Jr. transformed Liberty University, one of the religious right’s most powerful institutions, into a wildly lucrative online empire.
Alec MacGillis ProPublica Apr 2018 30min Permalink
The teenager told police all about his gang, MS-13. In return, he was slated for deportation and marked for death.
Hannah Dreier ProPublica Apr 2018 30min Permalink
As it scrambled to compete, the tech company cut tens of thousands of U.S. workers, hitting its most senior employees hardest and flouting rules against age bias.
Peter Gosselin, Ariana Tobin ProPublica Mar 2018 35min Permalink
What we know (and don’t), more than a year after American diplomats began to suffer strange, concussion-like symptoms in Cuba.
Tim Golden, Sebastian Rotella ProPublica Feb 2018 Permalink
Tyler Haire was locked up at 16. A Mississippi judge ordered that he undergo a mental exam. He would wait 1,266 days in an adult jail.
Sarah Smith ProPublica Dec 2017 30min Permalink
Not education. Not income. Not even being an expert on racial disparities in health care.
Nina Martin, Renee Montagne ProPublica Dec 2017 35min Permalink
How cops use arcane pedestrian laws to racially profile people in Jacksonville, Florida.
Topher Sanders, Kate Rabinowitz ProPublica Nov 2017 20min Permalink
Black people struggling with debts are far less likely than their white peers to gain lasting relief from bankruptcy. A style of bankruptcy practiced by lawyers in the South is primarily to blame.
Paul Kiel, Hannah Fresques ProPublica Sep 2017 25min Permalink
A case in Baltimore — in which two men were convicted of the same murder and cleared by DNA 20 years later — shows how far prosecutors will go to preserve a conviction.
Megan Rose ProPublica Sep 2017 30min Permalink