Over the previous 12 months, ProPublica has revealed lots of of investigations.
In January, Kyle Hopkins of the Anchorage Day by day Information examined why a sexual assault case took seven years to go to trial in Alaska. In March, our video journalists advised the tales of three moms combating to handle America’s stillbirth disaster. In August, a workforce throughout the newsroom calculated how deeply President Donald Trump’s administration lower federal well being businesses. And in December, Megan Rose and Debbie Cenziper reported how the Meals and Drug Administration’s lax generic drug guidelines put a lung transplant affected person’s life in danger.
Listed below are 25 long-reads so as to add to your end-of-year studying listing. It’s also possible to discover our most-read tales of the 12 months.
By Kyle Hopkins, Anchorage Day by day Information. Co-published with Anchorage Day by day Information.
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 referred to as it “a travesty of justice.”
By Mary Hudetz, ProPublica, and Hannah Bassett, Arizona Middle for Investigative Reporting. Co-published with Arizona Middle 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 Remedy Reveals About Drug Pricing
By Robin Fields
Revealed Feb. 12.
Taxpayers and charities helped develop Zolgensma. Then it debuted at a document worth, ushering in a brand new class of wildly costly medicine. Its story upends the broadly held conception that prime costs mirror big trade investments in innovation.
4. How a World On-line Community 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 outdoors an LGBTQ+ bar at first regarded just like the act of a lone shooter. A ProPublica and FRONTLINE investigation exhibits they had been, actually, the fruits of a coordinated, worldwide recruiting effort by on-line extremists.
5. Earlier than a Breath: America’s Stillbirth Disaster
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. every year, 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 Image”: Actuality Cop Present “The First 48” and the Wrongly Convicted Man
by Jessica Lussenhop, pictures by Sarahbeth Maney
Revealed March 29.
Edgar Barrientos-Quintana spent 16 years behind bars wrongly convicted for a taking pictures featured on “The First 48.” The Minnesota legal professional common’s workplace successfully alleged that the present formed the case as an alternative of the case shaping the present.
By Richard A. Webster, Verite Information. Co-published with Verite Information.
Revealed April 10.
A Louisiana legislation cedes a lot of the facility 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 language Jail Helped Gas a Lethal Drug Disaster in america
By Sebastian Rotella
Revealed April 23.
Whereas China enforces strict legal guidelines in opposition to home drug trafficking, state-supported corporations have overtly 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, pictures 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 bettering 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. Risk in Your Medication Cupboard: The FDA’s Gamble on America’s Medication
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 go 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 Got here to the U.S. to Assist His Sick Little one. 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 Pretend Information and The Texas Tribune.
Revealed July 18.
Like many 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 sources 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 expenses in an period of heightened responses to scholar threats. Authorities say harsh punishment is important, 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 hardly ever used earlier than Trump took workplace. ICE claims its officers use a “minimal quantity of power.” You may choose for your self.
16. Gutted: How Deeply Trump Has Reduce Federal Well being Businesses
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 attempting to deport Ohio youngsters’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. Just a few weeks after this investigation was revealed, Soliman was freed.
By Duaa Eldeib, pictures 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 Need to Dismantle Public Colleges. Now They Run the Schooling Division.
By Megan O’Matz and Jennifer Smith Richards
Revealed Oct. 8.
Beneath Trump, the Division of Schooling has been bringing in activists hostile to public colleges. It might imply a brand new period of personal and non secular 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 Assist. This State’s Probation Hole Might Have Put Her in Hazard.
By Paige Pfleger, WPLN, and Mariam Elba, ProPublica. Co-published with MLK50: Justice By means of Journalism, Tennessee Lookout and WPLN.
Revealed Nov. 11.
Tennessee probation officers pause in-person visits and residential searches for offenders going through 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. Authorities Is Dismissing That May Seed a Chook Flu Pandemic
By Nat Lash, graphics by Chris Alcantara
Revealed Nov. 18.
Egg producers suspect hen flu is touring by means of the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this 12 months, we examined that concept and located that the place the wind blew, the virus adopted. Vaccines might assist, however the USDA hasn’t accepted them.
23. Beneath Trump, Extra Than 1,000 Nonprofits Strip DEI Language From Tax Varieties
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. Contained in the Trump Administration’s Man-Made Starvation Disaster
By Brett Murphy and Anna Maria Barry-Jester, pictures by Brian Otieno for ProPublica
Revealed Dec. 17.
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of inside paperwork present authorities officers and support staff desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending catastrophe and demise.
By Megan Rose and Debbie Cenziper, pictures by Hannah Yoon for ProPublica
Revealed Dec. 19.
Lung transplant affected person Hannah Goetz’s life relied on the generic model of a crucial drug. It was presupposed to be equal to the brand-name treatment — however the FDA doesn’t at all times be sure that’s the case.
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