Then kept almost all of it. The Big Story Fri. Jul 26, 2019 A PAC called the Conservative Majority Fund raised nearly $10 million since 2012 by telling donors it would: Get Obama removed from the 2012 ballot. Help check voter rolls for fraud. Lead an …

Who pays? You. The Big Story Thu. Jul 18, 2019 Reporter Marshall Allen has been investigating the confounding way we pay for healthcare for over a year. Today, we published his latest piece, Health Insurers Make It Easy for Scammers to Steal Millions. …

Dozens of convicted criminals have been hired as cops in Alaska communities. The Big Story Thu. Jul 18, 2019 In one Alaska community, where priests and church volunteers sexually abused a generation of children in the '60s and '70s, and the 2017 death…

The worst problem you've never heard of. The Big Story Mon. Jul 15, 2019 Their Family Bought Land One Generation After Slavery. The Reels Brothers Spent Eight Years in Jail for Refusing to Leave It. Why are so many black families losing their l…

No matter how long they take Friend ― Investigative journalism ― the kind ProPublica is known for ― becomes rarer with each passing year. Expensive and time consuming, it’s often the first thing cut from a newsroom budget, but it’s more important than ever. …

Our mission: to spur change Friend ― ProPublica’s mission is to spur reform through investigative journalism.   We get a lot of questions about what this means, so we thought we’d give you some recent examples. Last year, we reported on the case of Fred Stee…

How electronic monitoring drives defendants into debt The Big Story wed. Jul 3, 2019 Welcome to those of you who are new to this newsletter, and welcome back to the rest of you. While our story this week on the secret Border Patrol Facebook group wher…

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