Over the previous 12 months, ProPublica has revealed a whole lot of investigations.
In January, Kyle Hopkins of the Anchorage Daily News examined why a sexual assault case took seven years to go to trial in Alaska. In March, our video journalists informed the tales of three moms fighting to address America’s stillbirth crisis. In August, a workforce throughout the newsroom calculated how deeply President Donald Trump’s administration cut federal health agencies. And in December, Megan Rose and Debbie Cenziper reported how the Meals and Drug Administration’s lax generic drug guidelines put a lung transplant patient’s life at risk.
Listed below are 25 long-reads so as to add to your end-of-year studying listing. You may also discover our most-read stories of the year.
By Kyle Hopkins, Anchorage Every day Information. Co-published with Anchorage Daily News.
Revealed Jan. 7.
In Alaska, the place the time to resolve most severe felony instances has almost tripled over the previous decade, one case was delayed so lengthy that each victims died. A former prosecutor known as it “a travesty of justice.”
By Mary Hudetz, ProPublica, and Hannah Bassett, Arizona Middle for Investigative Reporting. Co-published with Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting.
Revealed Jan. 27.
Arizona officers acknowledged {that a} fraud scheme focusing on Indigenous folks with addictions price taxpayers $2.5 billion. However they haven’t accounted publicly for the variety of deaths tied to the scheme.
3. What a $2 Million Per Dose Gene Therapy Reveals About Drug Pricing
By Robin Fields
Revealed Feb. 12.
Taxpayers and charities helped develop Zolgensma. Then it debuted at a file value, ushering in a brand new class of wildly costly medicine. Its story upends the broadly held conception that top costs replicate large business investments in innovation.
4. How a Global Online Network of White Supremacists Groomed a Teen to Kill
By A.C. Thompson and James Bandler, ProPublica, and Lukáš Diko, Investigative Middle of Jan Kuciak. Co-published with FRONTLINE.
Revealed March 8.
The murders of two folks exterior an LGBTQ+ bar at first seemed just like the act of a lone shooter. A ProPublica and FRONTLINE investigation reveals they have been, in reality, the fruits of a coordinated, worldwide recruiting effort by on-line extremists.
5. Before a Breath: America’s Stillbirth Crisis
By Nadia Sussman, Liz Moughon, Margaret Cheatham Williams and Lisa Riordan Seville
Revealed March 20.
Greater than 20,000 stillbirths happen within the U.S. annually, however 1 in 4 could also be preventable. “Earlier than a Breath” sheds gentle on three moms combating to alter these statistics.
6. “A Wholly Inaccurate Picture”: Reality Cop Show “The First 48” and the Wrongly Convicted Man
by Jessica Lussenhop, images by Sarahbeth Maney
Revealed March 29.
Edgar Barrientos-Quintana spent 16 years behind bars wrongly convicted for a capturing featured on “The First 48.” The Minnesota lawyer basic’s workplace successfully alleged that the present formed the case as a substitute of the case shaping the present.
By Richard A. Webster, Verite Information. Co-published with Verite News.
Revealed April 10.
A Louisiana regulation cedes a lot of the ability of the parole board to an algorithm that bars 1000’s of prisoners from a shot at early launch. Civil rights attorneys say it might disproportionately hurt Black folks — and will even be unconstitutional.
8. How a Chinese Prison Helped Fuel a Deadly Drug Crisis in the United States
By Sebastian Rotella
Revealed April 23.
Whereas China enforces strict legal guidelines in opposition to home drug trafficking, state-supported firms have brazenly shipped fentanyl to the U.S., investigators say. One prison-owned chemical firm boasted on-line: “100% of our shipments will clear customs.”
By Rob Davis, images by Sarahbeth Maney. Co-published with The Oregonian/OregonLive.
Revealed April 25.
Nike has made an expansive effort to persuade shoppers, buyers and others that it’s enhancing the lives of manufacturing facility staff who make its merchandise, not exploiting them. A uncommon view of wages at one Cambodian manufacturing facility checks this declare.
10. Threat in Your Medicine Cabinet: The FDA’s Gamble on America’s Drugs
By Debbie Cenziper, Megan Rose, Brandon Roberts and Irena Hwang
Revealed June 17.
A ProPublica investigation discovered that for greater than a decade, the FDA gave substandard factories banned from america a particular move to maintain sending medicine to an unsuspecting public.
By Audrey Dutton
Revealed July 16.
Clayton Sturdy had a historical past of home unrest in two marriages. The ladies’s households say a extra thorough investigation of Betty Sturdy’s demise in Idaho might need saved the lifetime of his subsequent spouse, Shirley Weatherley, in Texas.
12. He Came to the U.S. to Support His Sick Child. He Was Detained. Then He Disappeared.
By Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica; Perla Trevizo, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune; Mica Rosenberg and Jeff Ernsthausen, ProPublica; Ronna Rísquez, Alianza Rebelde Investiga; and Adrián González, Cazadores de Pretend Information. Co-published with Alianza Rebelde Investiga, Cazadores de Fake News and The Texas Tribune.
Revealed July 18.
Like a lot of the greater than 230 Venezuelan males deported to a Salvadoran jail, José Manuel Ramos Bastidas had adopted U.S. immigration guidelines. Then Trump rewrote them.
By Abrahm Lustgarten, graphics by Lucas Waldron, illustrations by Olivier Kugler for ProPublica
Revealed July 25.
A brand new examine finds that freshwater assets are quickly disappearing, creating arid “mega” areas and inflicting sea ranges to rise.
By Aliyya Swaby. Co-published with WPLN.
Revealed July 28.
Social movies, memes and retweets have gotten fodder for legal costs in an period of heightened responses to pupil threats. Authorities say harsh punishment is critical, however consultants say the crackdown has unintended penalties.
15. “We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out”
By Nicole Foy and McKenzie Funk
Revealed July 31.
We’ve documented almost 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering automobile home windows to make arrests — a tactic consultants say was not often used earlier than Trump took workplace. ICE claims its officers use a “minimal quantity of pressure.” You possibly can decide for your self.
16. Gutted: How Deeply Trump Has Cut Federal Health Agencies
By Brandon Roberts, Annie Waldman and Pratheek Rebala, illustrations by Sam Inexperienced for ProPublica
Revealed Aug. 21.
Greater than 20,500 staff have left or been pushed out of federal well being businesses, a ProPublica evaluation discovered. Staffers say the cuts will go away their businesses much less outfitted to conduct research, carry out inspections and fight lethal outbreaks.
By Hannah Allam
Revealed Sept. 9.
The U.S. authorities was making an attempt to deport Ohio kids’s hospital chaplain Ayman Soliman, alleging tenuous connections to terrorism. If DHS had succeeded, consultants say it might have handed the Trump administration a “sledgehammer” to make use of on mass deportations. A number of weeks after this investigation was revealed, Soliman was freed.
By Duaa Eldeib, images by Sarah Blesener for ProPublica
Revealed Sept. 10.
After insurance coverage repeatedly denied a pair’s claims, one psychiatrist was their final hope.
19. These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.
By Megan O’Matz and Jennifer Smith Richards
Revealed Oct. 8.
Below Trump, the Division of Schooling has been bringing in activists hostile to public colleges. It might imply a brand new period of personal and spiritual colleges boosted by tax {dollars} — and the tip of public colleges as we all know them.
20. How Paul Newby Made North Carolina a Blueprint for Conservative Courts
By Doug Bock Clark
Revealed Oct. 30.
Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court docket into an instrument of political energy. Over 20 years, he’s pushed adjustments which have reverberated properly past the borders of his state.
21. She Begged for Help. This State’s Probation Gap May Have Put Her in Danger.
By Paige Pfleger, WPLN, and Mariam Elba, ProPublica. Co-published with MLK50: Justice Through Journalism, Tennessee Lookout and WPLN.
Revealed Nov. 11.
Tennessee probation officers pause in-person visits and residential searches for offenders dealing with an arrest warrant. That diminished supervision can final for months. Temptress Peebles was one in all six moms who died throughout this hole.
22. What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic
By Nat Lash, graphics by Chris Alcantara
Revealed Nov. 18.
Egg producers suspect hen flu is touring by the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this 12 months, we examined that idea and located that the place the wind blew, the virus adopted. Vaccines might assist, however the USDA hasn’t accredited them.
23. Under Trump, More Than 1,000 Nonprofits Strip DEI Language From Tax Forms
By Ellis Simani, design by Zisiga Mukulu
Revealed Dec. 17.
Because the Trump administration ordered businesses to eradicate “unlawful” variety, fairness and inclusion efforts, we recognized greater than 1,000 nonprofits that eliminated such language from the mission statements of their tax filings.
24. Inside the Trump Administration’s Man-Made Hunger Crisis
By Brett Murphy and Anna Maria Barry-Jester, images by Brian Otieno for ProPublica
Revealed Dec. 17.
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of inner paperwork present authorities officers and help staff desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending catastrophe and demise.
By Megan Rose and Debbie Cenziper, images by Hannah Yoon for ProPublica
Revealed Dec. 19.
Lung transplant affected person Hannah Goetz’s life trusted the generic model of a crucial drug. It was speculated to be equal to the brand-name treatment — however the FDA doesn’t at all times be certain that’s the case.
