How Dollar Stores Became Magnets for Crime and Killing
Discount chains are thriving — while fostering violence and neglect in poor communities.
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
Marine commanders did not act on dozens of pleas for additional manpower, machinery and time. When a training exercise ended in death, leadership blamed the very men they had neglected.
Robert Faturechi, Megan Rose, T. Christian Miller ProPublica Dec 2019 40min Permalink
The Navy installed touch-screen steering systems to save money. Ten sailors paid with their lives.
T. Christian Miller, Megan Rose, Robert Faturechi, Agnes Chang ProPublica Dec 2019 25min Permalink
Paul Skalnik has a decades-long criminal record and may be one of the most prolific jailhouse informants in U.S. history. The state of Florida is planning to execute a man based largely on his word.
Pamela Colloff ProPublica Dec 2019 55min Permalink
The history of a sundown town.
Logan Jaffe ProPublica Nov 2019 25min Permalink
The patient lasted just minutes after being taken off life support. By then it was too late.
Joe Sexton, Nate Schweber ProPublica Oct 2019 30min Permalink
From the beginning, Intuit recognized that its success depended on two parallel missions: stoking innovation in Silicon Valley while stifling it in Washington. Indeed, employees ruefully joke that the company’s motto should actually be “compromise without integrity.”
Justin Elliott, Paul Kiel ProPublica Oct 2019 30min Permalink
Welcome to Coffeyville, Kansas, where the judge has no law degree, debt collectors get a cut of the bail, and Americans are watching their lives — and liberty — disappear in the pursuit of medical debt collection.
Lizzie Presser ProPublica Oct 2019 25min Permalink
One teammate made tennis his whole life. The other had a grandfather whose company invented Hot Pockets. Guess which one went to Georgetown as a Division I recruit.
Daniel Golden, Doris Burke ProPublica Oct 2019 30min Permalink
Most tycoons give big to one or two universities as their children approach college age. David Shaw gave to seven.
Ava Kofman, Daniel Golden ProPublica Sep 2019 20min Permalink
Brad Parscale has said he’s taking a relative pittance to run the president’s reelection operation. But as with much of what Parscale has claimed about his work and life, that’s not the full story. This is.
Peter Elkind, Doris Burke ProPublica Sep 2019 40min Permalink
Border Patrol agent Matthew Bowen had been investigated for years before he used his 4,000-pound truck to assault a fleeing migrant.
A.C. Thompson ProPublica Aug 2019 20min Permalink
Ankle bracelets are promoted as a humane alternative to jail. But private companies charge defendants hundreds of dollars a month to wear the surveillance devices. If people can’t pay, they may end up behind bars.
Ava Kofman ProPublica Jul 2019 25min Permalink
“The Farsi Island mission was a gross failure, involving issues that have plagued the Navy in recent years: inadequate training, poor leadership, and a disinclination to heed the warnings of its men and women about the true extent of its vulnerabilities.”
Megan Rose, Robert Faturechi, T. Christian Miller ProPublica Jun 2019 30min Permalink
Why carbon credits for forest preservation may be worse than nothing.
Lisa Song ProPublica May 2019 25min Permalink
How well-meaning donations end up fueling an unproven, virtually unregulated $2 billion stem cell industry.
Caroline Chen ProPublica May 2019 30min Permalink
How order collapsed in an American city.
Alec MacGillis ProPublica Mar 2019 30min Permalink