The Demolition of Workers’ Comp
An investigation into the steady dismantling of safety nets for injured workers.
An investigation into the steady dismantling of safety nets for injured workers.
Michael Grabell, Howard Berkes ProPublica Mar 2015 25min Permalink
The barely monitored use by cops of flashbangs, or military-style grenades.
Julia Angwin, Abbie Nehring ProPublica Jan 2015 15min Permalink
Michael Brown beat the odds by graduating from high school before his death—odds that remain stacked against black students in St. Louis and the rest of the country.
Nikole Hannah-Jones ProPublica Dec 2014 20min Permalink
How a major American company helped bring Charles Taylor to power in Liberia.
T. Christian Miller, Jonathan Jones ProPublica Nov 2014 10min Permalink
When Carmen Segarra was hired to examine Goldman Sachs for the New York Fed, she bought a small recorder and began taping her meetings. Here is what she found before she was fired.
Jake Bernstein ProPublica Sep 2014 25min Permalink
How a Chinese national, with the help of a suspected spy, disappeared with laptops and hard drives that may have contained sensitive information from the Arizona Counter Terrorism Information Center.
Ryan Gabrielson, Andrew Becker ProPublica Aug 2014 15min Permalink
For many, the answer from the state is “yes.” An investigation into what legally determines a person’s ability to parent.
Seth Freed Wessler ProPublica May 2014 20min Permalink
Sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education, Southern schools have been resegregated.
Nikole Hannah-Jones ProPublica Apr 2014 40min Permalink
There are 45,000 service members missing in action from WWII and other wars who experts say are recoverable. Last year, the U.S. brought home 60 of them.
Megan McCloskey ProPublica Mar 2014 20min Permalink
Asphyxiation, heavy machinery accidents and heat stroke–the dangers of America’s temporary workforce.
Michael Grabell, Olga Pierce, Jeff Larson ProPublica Dec 2013 25min Permalink
On the criminalization of nondisclosure.
Sergio Hernandez ProPublica Dec 2013 30min Permalink
During the last decade, more than 1,500 Americans died after accidentally taking too much of a drug renowned for its safety: acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol.
Jeff Gerth, T. Christian Miller ProPublica Sep 2013 Permalink
An investigation into the big and often troubling business of caring for aging Americans.
A.C. Thompson, Jonathan Jones ProPublica Jul–Aug 2013 55min Permalink
The plight of temporary workers in America.
Michael Grabell ProPublica Jun 2013 20min Permalink
A California martial arts instructor’s secret past.
Previously: Finding Oscar
Sebastian Rotella ProPublica Oct 2012 20min Permalink
How a Rhode Island lawyer named Joseph Caramadre made millions by exploiting the life insurance industry’s fine print.
Jake Bernstein ProPublica Aug 2012 20min Permalink
No, but for security software companies it’s a useful fiction.
Megha Rajagopalan, Peter Maass ProPublica Aug 2012 15min Permalink
A man living in the Boston suburbs learns he could be one of the only survivors of a 1982 massacre in Guatemala.
Sebastian Rotella ProPublica May 2012 40min Permalink
Between 2003 and 2011, there were 50 “invisible” fatalities at cell towers, “a death rate roughly 10 times that of construction.”
Liz Day ProPublica May 2012 30min Permalink
How a Texas woman pushed for autopsy reform.
Clinical autopsies, once commonplace in American hospitals, have become an increasing rarity and are conducted in just 5 percent of hospital deaths. Grief-stricken families like the Carswells desperately want the answers that an autopsy can provide. But they often do not know their rights in dealing with either coroners or medical examiners, who investigate unnatural deaths, or health-care providers, who delve into natural ones.
Marshall Allen ProPublica Dec 2011 10min Permalink
An investigation by ProPublica, PBS Frontline and NPR has found that medical examiners and coroners have repeatedly mishandled cases of infant and child deaths, helping to put innocent people behind bars.
A.C. Thompson, Chisun Lee, Joe Shapiro, Sandra Bartlett ProPublica Jun 2011 25min Permalink
A series on how some Wall Street bankers, seeking to enrich themselves at the expense of their clients and sometimes even their own firms, at first delayed but then worsened the financial crisis.
Jake Bernstein, Jesse Eisinger ProPublica Jan 2010 55min Permalink
In January 2009, a U.S. platoon came under rocket attack in Iraq. Two years later, how the event changed the soldiers’ lives.
Daniel Zwerdling, T. Christian Miller ProPublica Mar 2011 40min Permalink
A year-long investigation of America’s coroners and medical examiners reveals a deeply flawed, deeply troubling system.
A.C. Thompson, Lowell Bergman, Mosi Secret, Sandra Bartlett ProPublica Feb 2011 20min Permalink
An investigation into Lashkar-i-Taiba, the group behind the 2008 Mumbai massacre, and why Pakistani authorities has not arrested their leaders.
Sebastian Rotella ProPublica Nov 2010 15min Permalink